Dolores Resano

Dolores Resano is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of English Studies. She obtained her PhD in 2017 at the Universitat de Barcelona with a dissertation on the satirical post-9/11 novel The Zero (summa cum laude; extraordinary award). Her current research is focused on 21st-century US literature, with a special interest in the intersections between "negative" affect, precarity studies, and the rise of right-wing populisms in recent years. From 2018 to 2023 she was an Irish Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin (Ireland), as well as Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College in the United States (2020-2022). She is part of the research teams of the projects "(Un)Housing. Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature" (PID2020-115172GB-I00) and Brexit, nacionalismo(s) y post-imperio: guerras culturales y las construcciones de la identidad en narrativas británicas contemporáneas (PID2023-147649NB-I00), both funded by MINECO. She serves on the executive board of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) and is co-editor in chief of the journal Lectora: Journal of Women and Textuality. Her most recent publication is the edited volume American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities (Palgrave, 2022), as well as articles and book chapters on contemporary American literature and the impact of Trumpism on American television and fiction. Among the latter, the article “Transnational Readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Chris Beckett’s America City" (Open Research Europe, 2024).

Main research areas: American Studies, 21st-century American literature, precarity studies, populism, post-9/11 fiction, Trumpism.

Courses taught at UCM:

Literature and Ethnicity in the United States (2024/25)
Literature of the United States 1850-1900 (2022/23)
The Enlightenment in Anglo-American Cultural History (2023/24, 2024/25)
English Renaissance Drama (2023/24, 2024/25)

Researcher profiles: ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus ID

Contact: dresano@ucm.es

Selected publications:

Edited books:

American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Ed. Dolores Resano. Palgrave Macmillan (2022). ISBN: 9783030738570 (hardcover) 9783030738587 (ebook)

Journal articles:

“Transnational Readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Chris Beckett’s America City" [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. Open Research Europe, 4:214. Published online 9 October 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17107.1.

"Competing Fantasies and Alternative Realities: Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House.” Journal of American Studies, 56.4: pp. 513-537. Published online December 13 (2021). ISSN: 0021-8758 (Print), 1469-5154 (Online) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875821001237

“Under the Radar: Jess Walter's The Zero and the State of Irony and Satire after 9/11.” Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 39.1 (2017): pp. 133-152. ISSN: 0210-6124

Book chapters:

“Introduction: On the Meanings of ‘American Reality’.” American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Ed. Dolores Resano. Palgrave Macmillan (2022).

“From Political Depression to ‘Satiractivism’: Late-night in the Tribal Era of Trump.” American Television During a Television Presidency, Ed. Karen McNally, Wayne State University Press (2022): pp. 117-134. ISBN: 9780814349366

“‘A house at odds with itself’: Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered.” American Houses. Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire, Eds. Rodrigo Andrés & Cristina Alsina, Brill (Sept. 2022): pp. 284-301. ISBN: 9789004520318

Invited articles:

“Operation Chaos and the 2020 Presidential Election.” PopMeC Research Blog. November 2 (2020). https://popmec.hypotheses.org/3257

“Reading Transatlantically in the Era of Trump.” IAAS 50^th Anniversary special issue on Irish American Studies, Irish Journal of American Studies Online, 9 (2020), ISSN: 2009-2377. www.ijas.iaas.ie/issue-9-dolores-resano

“9/11 Fiction and the Death of Irony.” Alluvium Journal. 21st century writing / 21st century approaches, 4.4 (2015), ISSN: 2050-1560. https://www.alluvium-journal.org/2015/09/07/911-fiction-and-the-death-of-irony/

Journal special issues:

“Crisis, Pandemics, and Counterhegemony: Reading Paradigm Shifts across World Literature.” Ed. Dolores Resano. 452ºF Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada, 25 (2021) ISSN: 2013-3294. https://452f.com/en/editorial-25/

Dolores Resano es profesora ayudante doctora en el área de literatura del Departamento de Estudios Ingleses. Obtuvo su doctorado en la Universitat de Barcelona con una tesis sobre la novela satírica post-11/S The Zero (2017; premio extraordinario). Su principal área de investigación actual es la literatura norteamericana del siglo 21, con especial interés en las intersecciones entre los afectos "negativos", los estudios sobre precariedad y el auge reciente de populismos de derecha. Ha sido investigadora postdoctoral del Irish Research Council y Marie Skłodowska-Curie en el Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Irlanda (2018-2023), además de Investigadora Visitante en Dartmouth College en los Estados Unidos (2020-2022). Es parte de los equipos investigadores de los proyectos “(Des)alojo: viviendas, materialidad y subjetividad en la literatura de los Estados Unidos” (PID2020-115172GB-I00) y Brexit, nacionalismo(s) y post-imperio: guerras culturales y las construcciones de la identidad en narrativas británicas contemporáneas (PID2023-147649NB-I00), financiados por MINECO. Se desempeña también como miembro de la junta directiva de la Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) y como co-editora de la revista Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat. Su publicación más reciente es el volumen editado American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities (Palgrave, 2022), además de artículos y capítulos de libro sobre literatura norteamericana contemporánea y el impacto del Trumpismo en la televisión y ficción norteamericanas. Entre estos, se cuenta “Transnational readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Chris Beckett’s America City” (Open Research Europe, 2024).

Principales líneas de investigación: American Studies, literatura norteamericana del siglo 21, populismo, precariedad, ficción 11/S, Trumpismo.

Asignaturas impartidas en la UCM:

Literatura y Etnicidad en los Estados Unidos (2024/25)
Literatura de los Estados Unidos 1850-1900 (2022/23)
La Ilustración en la Historia Cultural Anglonorteamericana (2023/24, 2024/25)
Teatro Renacentista Inglés (2023/24, 2024/25)

Perfiles: ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus ID

Contacto: dresano@ucm.es

Publicaciones destacadas:

Libros editados:

American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Ed. Dolores Resano. Palgrave Macmillan (2022). ISBN: 9783030738570 (hardcover) 9783030738587 (ebook)

Artículos en revistas:

Capítulos de libro:

“Introduction: On the Meanings of ‘American Reality’.” American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Ed. Dolores Resano. Palgrave Macmillan (2022).

Artículos invitados:

“Operation Chaos and the 2020 Presidential Election.” PopMeC Research Blog. November 2 (2020). https://popmec.hypotheses.org/3257

Monográficos de revista: