Paula Perez-Rodriguez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a M.A. in Cultural Studies from University of Alcala and a B.A. in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Autonomous University of Madrid. Outside of academia, she has been involved in different educational and artistic projects at cultural  institutions and publishers in Spain. Her research interests include literary and critical theory, book history, sociolinguistics, poetics, performance studies and studies on aurality and vocality. Her dissertation examines the cultural and material history of  literary and non-literary experimental publications in pre-civil war Spain (1909-1936) from a comparative perspective.

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