Research projects


Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (VI). PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN – AEI). 2020-2023. Ref. No. PID2019-108754GB-I00.


International projects:

National projects:

  • Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (V). PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). 2016-2019. Ref. No. FFI2015-64137-P.
  • A Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (IV). PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by:Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). 2013-2015. Ref. No. FFI2012-31250.
  • A Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (III). PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN). 2010-2012. Ref. No. FFI2009-07450.
  • A Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (II). PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC). 2006-2009. Ref. No. HUM2006-04919/FILO.
  • A Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (I). PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC). 2003-2006. Ref. No. BFF2003-07004.
  • Estudio de la Literatura Etnica en los Estados Unidos y el Caribe. PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCYT). 1997-2000. Ref. No. PB96-0531.

Regional projects:

  • Alteridad y Acogida. PI: Jesús Benito Sánchez. Funded by: Universidad de Valladolid (UVa). 2021-2025. Ref. No. PIP-063/217951.
  • Las fronteras de la hospitalidad en los estudios culturales de Estados Unidos y Europa. PI: Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo. Funded by: Junta de Castilla y León (JCyL). 2014-2016. Ref. No. SA342U14.


Discursos y poética de la (post)modernidad. PI: Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo (Universidad de Salamanca). 2015-.


Recent research fellowships:

  • Representations of Violence in the America’s Literary Response to Globalization, by Juliana Naleiro. Supervised by Dr. Jesús Benito Sánchez and Dr. Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo.
  • Cartographies of Historical Trauma: Reinscribing Memory to Create Hospitable Spaces in African American Literature, by Paula Barba Guerrero. Supervised by Dr. Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo.
  • The Poetics of Caribbean Americanity: Claude Mckay and Post-1960s Caribbean-American Literature, by Mónica Fernández Jiménez. Supervised by Dr. Jesús Benito Sánchez.
  • (In)Hospitality and Surveillance in African American Literature: Untangling Beauty and Monitoring Discourses of the Black Body, by Carla Abella Rodríguez. Supervised by Dr. Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo.
  • Nomadism and Exclusion: Critical Analysis of Narrative Spaces in Contemporary Ethnic American Science Fiction, by Beatriz Hermida Ramos. Supervised by Dr. Paula Barba Guerrero.