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Dr. Carmen M. Méndez García is an Associate Professor of American Literature in the Department of English Studies at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her doctoral dissertation, The Rhetorics of Schizophrenia in the Epigones of Modernism (2003), was based on research she conducted as a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2001 and 2002. In 2010, she also participated in the Study of the United States Institute on Contemporary American Literature at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, an initiative funded by the Spanish Fulbright Program and the U.S. Department of State.

Her current research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature, postmodernism and contemporary fiction, Medical Humanities, U.S. countercultures, Spatial Studies, Gender Studies, and Minority Studies, with a focus on Chicana Studies. She is currently involved in the research project “(Des)Alojo: Viviendas, Materialidad y Subjetividad en la Literatura Estadounidense / (Un)Housing: Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature” (Plan Nacional I+D+i, ref. PID2020-115172GB-I00) and participates in a research group focused on Gender Studies in English and American Literature at Complutense University. She previously led the research group “Space, Gender, and Identity in U.S. Literature and Visual Arts: A Transatlantic Approach” at the Franklin Institute-UAH. Additionally, she was involved in the research project “Género y Patografía desde una Perspectiva Transnacional / Gender and Pathography from a Transnational Perspective” (Plan Nacional I+D+i, ref. PID2020-113330-GBI00) from 2021 to 2024.

Carmen M. Méndez García teaches courses on U.S. literature and contemporary U.S. fiction in the English Studies program at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She also teaches in the Literary Studies Master’s Program at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and in the joint (Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) American Studies Master’s Program. In these programs, she has supervised final undergraduate projects (TFGs) and master’s theses (TFMs) on topics such as American fiction, gender studies, masculinities, postmodernism, U.S. ethnic fiction, queer studies, science fiction, graphic novels, film, and the Beat Generation. She has also directed dissertations on American fiction, gender studies, U.S. countercultures, medical humanities, and ethnic studies. She welcomes proposals for dissertation supervision on these or related topics

Dr. Méndez García served as a board member for the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) from 2019 to 2023, and as the coordinator of the Master’s in North American Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid-UAH from 2015 to 2021. She was a member of the International Committee of the American Studies Association (ASA) from 2012 to 2015. Additionally, she served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and was the managing editor of Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies from 2009 to 2012.