Vicent Cucarella Ramon

Vicent Cucarella-Ramon is a Lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of València (Spain). His research interests focus on U.S. and Canadian literature with a special emphasis on African American and African Canadian literatures as well as on the legacy of slavery in the Afro-Diasporic literature written in Europe. He has published articles on novels by Zora Neale Huston, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Esi Edugyan or Wayde Compton in international and national journals and has also written book chapters in specialised volumes, one of which centers on the study of the Afro-Dog in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. He is currently doing research on the ideology of domestic spaces as well as on the intersection between critical animal studies and the processes of racialization in novels written by Black North American authors. He is the author of the monograph Sacred Femininity and the Politics of Affect in African American Women’s Fiction (PUV, 2018) and has recently published the critical edition of Benjamin Drew’s volume on Canadian slavery The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (PUV, 2021)

Email: Vicent.Cucarella@uv.es