MARGARITA
ESTEVEZ SAA

Margarita Estévez-Saá is Associate Professor in English and American Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and has been accredited for Full University Professor. Her research interests include the work of James Joyce and, more recently, contemporary Irish fiction by women. She has published essays in which she studied the topic of immigration in recent Irish fiction, such as “Antidotes to Celtic Tiger Ireland in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Anne Haverty’s The Free and the Easy and Éillís Ní Dhuibne’s Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow” (2010) and “Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger Novels” (2013). She has also read contemporary novels in English from a transcultural perspective in “Trauma and Transculturalism in Contemporary Fictional Memories of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks” (2016) and “‘Us returniks’: Transcultural Atlantic Exchanges in Mary Rose Callaghan’s and Elizabeth Wassell’s Novels” (2018). She co-edited the volume The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s) (Routledge, 2019) and the special number of Estudios Irlandeses “Ecofictions, The Animal Trope and Irish Studies” (2020). More recently, she has published articles on contemporary Irish literature that have appeared in journals such as Journal of English Studies (2023) or Journal of Gender Studies (2024) and book chapters in monographs on the topic published by Dickinson, Gylphi or Routledge, among others. Estévez-Saá has been general editor of Papers on Joyce, member of the Executive Board of AEDEI, and is currently Secretary of the Spanish James Joyce Society and General Editor of the academic journal Estudios Irlandeses.