Elia Romera-Figueroa
Elia
Elia Romera-Figueroa
Global Spains Facilitator
Elia Romera-Figueroa is a postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and The University of Glasgow, under the CIVIS3i – Marie Sklodowska-Curie ActionsCOFUND fellowship. She previously received her PhD from Duke University. Her research areas of expertise focus on twentieth- and twenty first- century Iberian cultural studies, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality studies,(post)memory, music, sonic, and performance studies, and transatlantic LatinX studies. Romera-Figueroa has taught courses on global culture, social movements, collectives, and community-building in Spain at New York University Madrid and Duke in Madrid. She served as a resident researcher at the Reina Sofía Museum’s Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices, and Cultural Studies Special Studies Program. Her writings have appeared in journals such as Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Status Quaestionis and she is the co-editor of the special issue «Transatlantic LatinX Studies, Iberian Studies, and The Global South» (Cultural Dynamics, February-May 2024). Romera-Figueroa is currently at work on her forthcoming book, “Gendering Anti-Francoism: Cantautoras in Spain (1952–1986), the first sustained analysis that brings together gender studies and music studies, offering new historical protagonists that expand the canon of the time.