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Libe Garcia Zarranz
2010 Trudeau Scholar
libe.garciazarranz@trudeaufoundation.net
Current Research
Ph.D. English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
Contemporary Cross-Border Canadian Women WritersBiography
Libe García Zarranz is a PhD student in the department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Originally from Spain, she moved to Canada in 2008, after completing her Degree in English Philology, and her MA in Textual and Cultural Studies at the University of Zaragoza. She has worked as an English Language teacher for six years in different high schools in Spain, and as a graduate student instructor of a first year English Course entitled "Engl 123-Literature in Global Perspective" at the University of Alberta in the Fall of 2009. She has presented her graduate work at conferences in Canada, the US, Spain, France, Ireland, the UK, and Puerto Rico. She has published on the representation of women in the work of authors Merlinda Bobis, Raymond Carver, Emma Donoghue, and William Trevor. She has also published on the evolution of the female heroines in Walt Disney's movies from the 1990s. García Zarranz serves on the editorial board for Revista Atenea from the University of Puerto Rico, The Raymond Carver Review, hosted by Kent State University in the US, and has recently volunteered to work with a new journal of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. In the spring of 2009, she co-edited the second issue of The Raymond Carver Review on "Carver and Feminism." She was awarded the BMO Financial Group Graduate Scholarship in September 2009, and has recently been awarded the Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship at the University of Alberta. Some of her extra-curricular and public service activities include being part of several pedagogical committees in Spain, together with her roles as Hospitality Coordinator and Film Studies liaison for the Graduate Students of English Collective, and her collaboration in the organization of the two Graduate Symposiums held at the University of Alberta. Areas of interest include transnational women's writing, queer theory, and border studies.
Project Description
Contemporary Cross-Border Canadian Women Writers
Contemporary rereadings of international geopolitical borders have dramatically challenged traditional assumptions about the implications of the terms "frontier" and "nation," leading to complex concepts like "transnationalism" and "globalization." The redefinition and crossing of borders has also shaped Canada's literary imagination, since many contemporary Canadian women writers see themselves as frontier-crossing beings engaged in exploring how issues such as identity, sexuality, class, and race transcend national frontiers. Focusing on the turn of the 21st century, Libe's doctoral research examines some of the border-crossing strategies that contemporary Canadian women writers like Dionne Brand, Hiromi Goto, Shani Mootoo, and Emma Donoghue employ to interrogate and deconstruct pre-existing notions of the border. Her project is primarily framed within the context of contemporary "TransCanadian" women's writing as seen through the critical lenses of sexuality, race, gender and ethics. Thus the methodology employed cuts across disciplines by including transnational, queer, border feminist theory, and political philosophy.Trudeau Foundation Themes
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