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Cristina Hurtado Botella is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Murcia, and she holds an FPU-MECD fellowship, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport in November 2019.She graduated in English Studies at the University of Murcia (2017), with Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award mention. She holds a Master’s degree in European Comparative Literature (2018) and a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2019). She has been an Erasmus+ student at the University of Leeds (2016) and, more recently, a visiting researcher in the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London (2021). Her area of research is contemporary life writing, and she is mainly interested in life narratives that represent illness. Her dissertation explores contemporary mental illness memoirs in English, focusing on their poetics and ethical dimension. Her research draws on Life Writing, Narrative Studies, and Medical Humanities. She regularly presents her research at national and international conferences and specialized symposia.
In December 2021, she presented some results of her dissertation in the conference paper “Beyond the Recovery Storyline in Mental Illness Memoirs: Disruptions of Linearity in Mike Barnes’ The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis” at the Queer Temporalities in Film, Literature and Video Games International Conference.
Publications
Cristina Hurtado Botella. Review of New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights, by Ana Belén Martinez García. Nexus (1) (2021): 44-47.
Cristina Hurtado Botella. “Discourses on the Borderline: Women, Madness, and Identity,” Thresholds and Ways Forward in English Studies. Eds. Lourdes López Ropero, Sara Prieto García-Cañedo and José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo. Sant Vicent del Raspeig: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2020. pp. 101-110. ISBN: 978-84-1302-079-2. Doi: 10.14198/pua.2020.twfes.01
Conferences
Organizing Committee. Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference. University of Murcia. December 2-4, 2021.
Organizing Committee. Students conference series, Language and Culture: Artistic Communication. University of Murcia. April 17, 2018.