Maria Porras Sanchez

(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

María Porras Sánchez is an assistant teacher at the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and she also collaborates at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has formerly taught at Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK). Her research interests include postcolonial literature, travel literature, modernism and avant-garde, and comic studies. She combines her teaching and research with her work as a literary translator for publishing houses such as Editorial Siruela and HarperCollins. She has translated, among others, Anne Enright and Boris Fishman. She has coedited, with E. Sánchez-Pardo and R. Burillo, Women Poets and Myth in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries: On Sappho’s Website (Cambridge Scholars, 2018). Her last work to date is a critical edition and translation of El himen y el hiyab: por qué el mundo árabe necesita una revolución sexual (2018) by Mona Eltahawy.