Among her publications of the last 5 years, the following should be highlighted: the edited volume American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire (Brill, in print), the book chapters “Draft Resistance and the Anti-War Movement as Civil Disobedience: The Influence of Thoreau's Political Thought on the Protests Against the War in Vietnam” (Vernon Press) and “Neither Old nor New but Other: Willa Cather's Syncretic Experience of History” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), the articles “‘Bringing the War Home:' the Role of Family in the Home Front during the American War in Vietnam” published in Ex-centric Narratives and “Dissent as Therapy: the Case of the Veterans of the American War in Vietnam” published in Atlantis. She is currently co-directing the journal Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat and coordinating the Master’s Program “Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities”. She is Co-PI of the research project “(Un)Housing: Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature” (PID2020-115172GB-I00). Her main area of research is 20th and 21st century US literature. Keywords: anthropology of reading, writing, literary training, participatory research, vernacular legal practices Alsina Risquez, CristinaĪssociate Professor in US Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona and researcher in ADHUC-Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality. It brings together these perspectives to reimagine literary education with a sociocultural, participatory and artistic vision that actively takes advantage of the contemporary and digital literacy practices of children and young people. Her research is interdisciplinary and situated in the permanent dialogue between anthropological research, didactics and literacy. She is currently the coordinator at UAB of the Erasmus Mundus Children’s Literature, Media and Culture Master and Principal Investigator of a Retos/Ministerio project on digital literature (with A. Marsh) and has collaborated with social transfer projects of the EU-Joint Research Center. She has been national coordinator of the European project “The multimodal practices of Young children 0-8” (EU Action COST, coord. She has 7 years of funded postdoctoral research experience in the area of literacy and literary education at The University of Sheffield (Beatriu de Pinós-A), UAB (Beatriu de Pinós-B) and UPF (Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación). She holds a Degree in Humanities (2005) and a PhD from Pompeu Fabra University (2011, International Mention and Extraordinary Doctoral Award) with the thesis The adolescent’s lack of interest on reading (supervised by D. Lecturer in Didactics of Language and Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Keywords: phonetic training, speech perception, speech production, English vowels, pronunciation teaching, second language acquisition, English Aliagas Marín, Cristina

Aliaga is a member of a funded research project on ‘Pronunciation and phono-lexical representations in Spanish EFL learners.’ Her research is focused on (1) assessing the effectiveness of form-focused instruction and enhanced high-variability phonetic training in improving pronunciation and comprehensibility, and (2) examining the extent to which treatments interact with individual differences in vocabulary size and attentional skills. She completed a PhD in ‘The effect of auditory and articulatory phonetic training on the perception and production of L2 vowels by Catalan-Spanish learners of English’ and has been able to directly apply research findings on L2 speech learning to the pronunciation classroom, engaging learners to participating in speech training tasks involving the perception and production of English speech sounds. Her research and teaching are driven by a keen interest in narrowing the gap between lab research and the foreign language classroom. Aliaga specializes in English phonetics and phonetic training methodology for pronunciation teaching. Dr Aliaga holds a PhD in English Philology from the University of Barcelona and is also a member of the L2 Speech Research Group, investigating the acquisition of L2 speech in all of its perceptual and productive dimensions.

Serra Hunter fellow in English Linguistics at the University of Barcelona.

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