Paula Romo-Mayor is a lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza. She graduated in English Studies at the same university in July 2017 and, in 2018, obtained the Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, after defending with honours her MA thesis. In December 2018, she secured a position as research fellow at the Department of English and German Studies (University of Zaragoza), after being granted a competitive research fellowship financed by the Diputación General de Aragón (DGA).
In April 2024, she completed her PhD thesis, entitled “Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: The Representation of Memory, Trauma and Historical Agency in Rachel Seiffert’s Novels”, under the supervision of Prof. Susana Onega and Dr Silvia Pellicer-Ortín. Paula is also a member of the research team Contemporary Narrative in English and the Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS).
Her main research interests lie in contemporary British and Irish fiction, Holocaust literature and the representation of trauma, memory and ethics, particularly when engaged in structures of perpetration and complicity.