Elia Romera Figueroa
PhD candidate, Romance Studies (Spanish)
Bacca Fellowship Year(s)
- 2021-2022
Elia Romera Figueroa is PhD student in the Department of Romance Studies (Spanish Track) at Duke University.
Interests: Popular culture in Spain during the 20th century, Counter-culture, Gender Studies, Social Movements, Sound Studies, Performence Studies, Memory and Postmemory Studies.
Current Research: Her research focuses on women singers during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in Spain, gendering the anti-Franco struggle, and researching about the engagement of many of those protest singers with Second-Wave Feminists movements. Among the case studies are: Teresa Rebull, Elisa Serna, Julia León, Marina Rossell, Rosa León, Guillermina Motta, Lourdes Iriondo, Margariña Valderrama, and others.
Fellowships:
Bacca Fellow (2021-2022)
PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge (2020-2021)
Kenan Institute for Ethics (2019-2020)
Social Movements Lab (Franklin Humanities Institute) (2017-2020)
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