About our Researchers

 Dolors Ortega Arévalo

Dolors Ortega Arévalo has been a lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of Barcelona since the year 2010. Her research has focused mainly on Modernist writers, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Literatures and the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

She has been working on transnationalisms, hybridity, the Partition of India and Indian Ocean Literatures and has published the prologue and only authorized annotated Spanish translation of F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon (2014) as well as the prologue of F.S Fitzgerald’s Cuentos Rbeldes (2018). She has been member of the academic committee of the MA “Construcció i Representació d’Estudis Anglesos” of “Facultat Filologia i Comunicació de la Universitat de Barcelona”, and is currently a member of the executive committee of “Centre d’Estudis Australians i Transnacionals (CEAT).”

Publications

MOYA, ANA & DOLORS ORTEGA (2005) “¿Traduttore traditore? Adaptación, transcreación y Mrs Dalloway. Masculinidades en la obra de M Gorris” in Traducción, (sub)versión, transcreación (eds) Assumpta Camps, Jacqueline Hurtley y Ana Moya. Barcelona: PPU, pp. 217-243. ISBN: 84-477-0894-2.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (annotated translation, 2014) El último magnate de Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Barcelona: Navona. ISBN: 978-84-92840-97-7.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2014) “La fragilidad del último cowboy” (epílogo). El último magnate. Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Barcelona: Navona. ISBN: 978-84-92840-97-7.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2017) “Virginia Woolf’s Cosmic Vision and ‘the Commonly Thought Small’ in ‘Kew Gardens’ (1919)” in AEDEAN Nexus. ISSN: 1697-4646.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2017) “Molecularising the Nation: Mrs. Bhave’s Homeless Diaspora” in AEDEAN Nexus. ISSN: 1697-4646.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2017) «Molecularising the Nation: The Body without Organs in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bones» in  Sule Okuroglu Ozun & Mustafa Kirca (Eds) B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity and Identity in Literatures (Frankfurt, Peter Lang GmbH, pp.69-85). ISBN: 978-3-63169669-9.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2018) “Relato de una época: la rebeldía intelectual de los gloriosos años veinte” (prólogo) en Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Cuentos rebeldes. Barcelona: Navona. ISBN: 978-84-17181-38-3

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2018) (annotated translation, 2014) El último magnate de Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Barcelona: Debolsillo. ISBN: 978-84-663-4433-3.

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2021) “Negotiating Identity and Belonging in the Western Indian Ocean: Fluid Enabling Spaces in M.G. Vassanji’s Uhuru Street”  en Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 82, p.27-46 ISSN: 0211-5913.    

ORTEGA, DOLORS (2021) The Silence of the Subaltern in the Partition of India: Bengali Gendered Trauma Narratives in Shobha Rao’s “The Lost Ribbon” and Ramapada Chaudhuri’s “Embrace” en  Indialogs, vol. 8, p.99-122   ISSN: 2339-8523.