Mª Pilar Rodríguez appointed by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities to be member of the National Essay Award Jury

Mª Pilar Rodríguez, professor at the University of Deusto and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Platform Strengthening Participation, was appointed by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) to be member of the Jury of the National Essay Award, which will be given on 8 November 2018 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in Madrid.

The National Literature Award in the modality of Essay, is a literary prize of long trajectory that the Ministry of Culture grants every year to the best essay written by a Spanish author or authors.

María Pilar Rodríguez holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Deusto and a degree in English from the Official School of Languages. She has a PhD in Romance Languages ​​and Literatures from Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). Until 2002, she was a professor at the University of Columbia (New York, USA) and is currently a professor at the University of Deusto in San Sebastián. She has published numerous articles on literature, cinema, culture and gender studies and two books (Vidas im/propias: transformaciones del sujeto femenino en la narrativa española contemporánea (Indiana, Purdue UP, 2000) y Mundos en conflicto: aproximaciones al cine vasco de los noventa (San Sebastián, Universidad de Deusto-Filmoteca Vasca, 2002)). She is the winner of the 2003 Prize Carmen de Burgos Essay with the work Una revisión de la modernidad desde la perspectiva de género: tres relatos de Carmen de Burgos, and the 2005 Prize Becerro de Bengoa, with the work Extranjeras: migraciones, globalización, multiculturalismo. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Communication research team and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Platform Gender.