Cristina Pérez
Madrid, Spain
Cristina Pérez is an ex alumni of The British Council School (1987-2003) which graduated in English Philology by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in year 2011, having acquired a double major in Angloamerican Literature. She also graduated in Translation and Interpretation (SP, ENG, FR) by C. E. S. Felipe II de Madrid in year 2010, acquiring a major in Cognitive, Generative and Systemic approaches to English Grammar.
She finished a Master in Literary Studies in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in which her major was Urban and Angloamerican Literature and her line of academic investigation was centred on the study of the city across the social perspective of multiculturalism, entitled "New York: Icon and Cultural Constellation".
Her recent projects of investigation have taken her to the analysis of the work of authors who comprise the modernist angloamerican movement and study of the approaches of european forefronts, as well as a narrow collaboration with the Faculty of Romanesque Philology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid during the Semana Complutense de las Letras and the seminar of the modernity of the classics in romanian literature. She has been a communicator in the international congress Mitologías Modernas: Iconos, Reescrituras, Arquetipos and a speaker at the X International Congress on Women's Studies, Gender and Domestic Topographies: Negotiating Gendered Spaces. She has collaborated in grant projects for cancer research and volunteered for students with diverse impairments.
Cristina is currently studying a Ph.D in Literary Studies in Spain, being Edgar Allan Poe and Victorian science her main object of study. She works as an English tutor, field in which she has more than 10 years of experience.