Teresa Requena Pelegrí

Teresa Requena Pelegrí is a professor in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Barcelona. She is part of the research groups “Construyendo nuevas masculinidades” (“Building new masculinities”) and “Masculinities and Aging”, and has participated in the collective book Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions (2017). She teaches British and American history, culture, and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Concerning research, her publications focus on the link between literary production and the cultural and historical aspects of the period. She has also studied several playwrights such as Adrienne Kennedy and Suzan-Lori Parks. As part of the research project “Homes de ficció: cap a una història de la masculinitat a través de la literatura i el cinema dels Estats Units, segles XX i XXI” (“Fictional Men: Towards a History of Masculinity through American Literature and Cinema, the XX and XXI Centuries”), she has published articles on Ernest Hemingway and F. S. Fitzgerald, where she analyses the construction of different models of masculinities in the American modernist period. She is currently involved in several projects on how masculinities happen to be represented in contemporary American literature and, in particular, in the work of Jonathan Franzen and David Vann.