DOLORES
RESANO FANTINO

Dolores Resano is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of English Studies. She obtained her PhD at the Universitat de Barcelona with a dissertation on the satirical post-9/11 novel The Zero (2017; extraordinary award, international mention). Her current research is focused on 21st-century US literature, with a special interest in the intersections between "negative" affect, precarity studies, and the rise of right-wing populisms in recent years. She was formerly an Irish Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland (2018-2023), as well as Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College in the United States (2020-2022). She is part of the research team at ADHUC-Research Center for Theory, Gender, and Sexuality (Universitat de Barcelona) and of the project "(Un)Housing. Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature" (PID2020-115172GB-I00) funded by MINECO. She is also a board member of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) and co-editor in chief of the journal Lectora: Journal of Women and Textuality. Her most recent publication is the edited volume American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities (Palgrave, 2022), as well as articles and book chapters on contemporary American literature and the impact of Trumpism on American television and fiction.