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Lena Elipe Gutiérrez is a PhD candidate at the University of Oviedo under the Gender and Diversity program. She has recently been granted a Severo Ochoa research fellowship. She completed her English Studies degree at the University of Oviedo in 2020, followed by an MA in Gender and Diversity at the same institution. Her current doctoral research, directed by Dr. Marta Fernández Morales, focuses on the representation of the migration process in Latina Young Adult Literature (YAL), particularly in the work of authors such as Jenny Torres Sánchez, Paola Mendoza and Aida Salazar. Following the current of the Phenomenology of Illegality and Trauma Theory, among others, she studies the physical, emotional and environmental consequences of such a dangerous journey, the scars that it leaves on the bodies of the adolescent protagonists, and the ecodependent bonds that they forge as they navigate the migratory space.

She is currently working on an article about the portrayal of the human and environmental consequences of Trump’s anti-migrant policies in the novels We Are Not from Here (Jenny Torres Sánchez 2020) and Sanctuary (Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher 2020). She has recently joined the project “END: Illness in the Age of Extinction. Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation (2000-2020)”. She is also interested in other cultural products such as film and drama, and she has been a drama student for 12 years at the Plastic and Stage Arts School of Oviedo (Taller 3).