About our Researchers
Esther Jiménez Rodríguez
Esther Jiménez Rodríguez (PhD candidate, University of Lleida) is a PDI researcher in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Lleida (Spain) while completing her PhD studies. She was awarded the scholarship ‘Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento’ under the State Plan for Scientific, Technical, and Innovation Research 2021-2023. This scholarship is supporting her in developing her thesis while actively participating in the current research project Aquatic Imaginaries: Re-charting Indoceanic and Atlantic Literary Productions INDAOC. Her research spans postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities, and Indian Ocean studies. Her work applies ecocritical and ecofeminist perspectives to literary texts from the Indian and the Atlantic Ocean regions.
Publications
With Aina María Díaz-Llabrés. “Women and Nature: Active Agents in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies.” Indialogs 12, no. 1 (April 2025): 29–47. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/indialogs.311.
Abstract in Esther Pujolràs Noguer. “The Multifaceted Active Agent: Reimagining Nature as a Living Entity in Indian Ocean Narratives.” Nexus AEDEAN, no. 1 (2025): 127–28.
“The Battle Between Order and Chaos and Its Reconciliation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland.” In Fragments of Meaning: Dialogues in Language, Literature and Culture, edited by Montse Martínez Vázquez, Daniel Nisa Cáceres, and Sonia Casal Madinabeitia. Enredars Publicaciones / Pablo de Olavide University (UPO), 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24419.
“Women Doubly Affected by the Abusive Power of Patriarchy: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Nature’s Response in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.” Master’s thesis, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2023.
“Kishi Bashi, ‘I Am the Antichrist to You’: Overcoming Grief.” In Songs of Survival: Men in 21st Century Popular Music, edited by Sara Martín. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2023.
“Imagine Dragons, ‘Believer’: The New Man.” In Songs of Survival: Men in 21st Century Popular Music, edited by Sara Martín. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2023.
