Dr Isabel Carrera Suárez
Dr. Isabel Carrera Suárez
lectured at the University of Glasgow (UK) from 1978 – 1981 before joining
the University of Oviedo (Spain), where she is Profesora Titular
de Universidad (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of English, French and
German Philology. She was, until early 2004, Pro-Vice Chancellor
(Outreach) at the University of
Oviedo and directly involved in the decision-making on new degrees, research
policies and priorities, which included an emphasis on interdisciplinary
work. Dr. Carrera Suárez has also coordinated various interdisciplinary
research projects from national Research and Development (R&D) programmes, combining literature,
history, cultural studies and sociology and was a partner in the Framework
Five project HPSE-01-CT-00082. She co-founded the Women’s Studies Seminar
and the interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Doctorate, in which she has taught
since its establishment in 1995.
Dr. Carrera Suárez has
published over 40 articles/chapters in books, mostly international, in the
areas of gender, postcolonial theory and textual analysis and coordinated
and edited several collective books in these areas. She is the general
editor of the feminist collection Alternativas (Oviedo: KRK), which
has published thirteen theoretical studies in the humanities and social
sciences and has also been on the editorial board of general
interdisciplinary journals such as the International Journal of Canadian
Studies (Ottawa).
