Margarita Carretero González
Margarita Carretero González is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the English and German Department of the University of Granada (Spain) and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (UK). She coordinates the research group ENLI (Estudios de Narrativa en Lengua Inglesa-HUM-424 Junta de Andalucía) and is also a member of GIECO (Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica-Franklin Institute-UAH), CULIVIAN (Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal-University of Valencia), Red Iberoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales (University of Córdoba, Argentina) and Animots. Carnet de Zoopoétique (Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage – EHESS-CNRS). She has published nationally and internationally on fantasy fiction, narratives by women, animal ethics and cultural representations of other-than-human nature, using the critical lens provided by ecocriticism and ecofeminism. One of her most recent publications is the collection of essays Spanish Thinking about Animals (Michigan State University Press, 2020). Her translation and critical edition of the first version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Comares 2018), received the AEDEAN 2019 Translation Award. In September 2018, she was appointed vice-president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment and became the association’s president in 2020, until 2022. In September 2022 she coordinated the 9th Biennial EASLCE conference, held at the University of Granada. She is a member of the advisory board of Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, and consultant editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics.
Email: carreter@ugr.es