Alejandra Moreno Álvarez , holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Oviedo. She has been a research fellow at Rutgers University, Cornell University and the University of York, among others. She has been Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Oviedo. Her teaching and research are centered in Literatures in English Language, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory and in the subject of Body Politics in Literature and Cinema.