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Campos, Rebeca E.

Rebeca E. Campos is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and is also currently working at Complutense University of Madrid teaching American and English literatures. She earned a Ph.D. in Literary Studies at Complutense University and was awarded the European Doctor honorary qualification. As part of her doctoral degree, she did a research stay at JFK Institute, at the Freie Universität in Berlin, and also at the University of Reading, in England, United Kingdom. In her dissertation, she studied the ways in which early twentieth-century Americanization discourses of femininity impeded eastern European Jewish immigrant women’s ability to fully adapt to American gender norms. This experience prompted her interest in the power relations produced by textual propaganda and the impact of such hegemonic gender roles on non-conforming gender realities. Since finishing her PhD, she has given various speeches and led workshops on the queer punk scene and literature in community centers, bookstores, and other cultural or academic events. In the last years, she has also participated in several conferences on non-conforming gender narratives and queer activism. Her philological expertise involved having knowledge of a variety of histories and cultures within the United States and the United Kingdom, including African-American and Chicano literatures, textual and musical records of ethnic minorities and women’s narratives, and developing teaching interdisciplinary approaches. Her current research has a particular focus on the diversity of queer experiences portrayed in contemporary narratives and the ways in which these portrayals shape a new perspective from which to approach the concept of intersectionality in English Studies.