Laura Álvarez Trigo

My primary research focuses on how media theory informs the literary style of postmodern American authors and how screens are thematized in contemporary audiovisual production. This interest in media originates from my undergraduate studies in communication and transverses all my projects, covering various fields from popular culture and gender studies to literature.

I have a PhD in North American Studies from Universidad de Alcalá (Instituto Franklin-UAH), with a dissertation on the representation of media and audiences in Don DeLillo. I am currently an assistant professor at Universidad de Valladolid in Spain

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Universidad de Valladolid (Valladolid, Spain)

Undergraduate courses
“Women in Anglo-American Culture.” (2024-present)
“North American Society and Culture.” (2023-present)
“Written expression in English.” (2024-2025)
“Discourse Analysis.” (2023-2024)
“Medieval and Renaissance Literature.” (2023-2024)
“English B1.” (2022-2023)

Graduate courses
“Academic Speaking and Writing in a Foreign Language I”
(2025-present)

Taught Undergraduate Courses
Previously held positions

Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain)
“English.” (2022-2023)

IE University (Segovia, Spain)
“Spanish A1.” (2022-2023)
“Spanish A2.” (2022-2023)
“Living in Spanish.” (2022-2023)

Instituto Franklin-UAH (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
“Intercultural Communication.” (2017-2018)
“Introduction to Spain.” (2017-2018)

Williams College (MA, USA)
“Spanish for beginners.” (2015-2016)
“Intermediate Spanish.” (2015-2016)
“Advanced Spanish.” (2015-2016)
“Advanced Writing and Conversation in Spanish.” (2015-2016)

Teaching Stays

Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. (29/01/2024-02/02/2024). ERASMUS+ Program. Taught subjects:
“Myths and Icons inVictorian Britain” (MA seminar) 2 hours.
“General Culture in the English-Speaking World” (MA seminar) 2 hours.
“Visual Culture” 4 hours.

Universidade de Coimbra. (20/11/2023-14/11/2023). Taught subjects:
“Contemporary American Literature” 4 hours.
“The American Century” 4 hours.

Teaching Innovation Projects

  • Project Coordinator (2024-present). “Integrating popular culture in class material design and teaching practices” (IntegraPop: Integración de la cultura popular en el diseño de materiales y prácticas docentes)
  • Member (2025-present). “LECTUVa: socialization of reading, networks and reading groups”
  • Member (2024-present). “USAL-UVa Linguistics Research Seminars”

Invited Lectures

“Historiographic Metafiction in the American Novel”. 2023, Universidad de Valladolid. 2 hours.
“Seminar on Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five“. 2023, Universidad de Valladolid. 2 hours.
“African American Fiction and Toni Morrison’s Beloved“. 2023, Universidad de Valladolid. 2 hours.
“Literatura en la Pantalla”, course on movie adaptations. Curso Extensión Universitaria. 2020, Universidad de Alcalá. 8 hours.

Thesis Committees

(2024) “Academic written needs in students learning disciplinary content through EME: a focus on Functional Adequacy through a triangulation method.” Sara Gonzálvez Catalán. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

(2023) “The Gospel from Outer Space: Apocalypse, America and Science Fiction in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.” David López Guzman. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Teaching-Related Courses Attended

  • “Inclusive Education for a Transformative Teaching” (2023, Universidad de Valladolid) – 20 hours
  • “Beyond Annotation: Learning through Close reading of Media Texts” (2021, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía) – 12 hours
  • “Pedagogical Design in University Teaching: Principles, Trends and Ideas” (2021, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía) – 12 hours
  • “Feminist Pedagogy” (2021, Feminarian) – 40 hours
  • “Keys for the Design and Impact of MOOCs and Others” (2021, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía) – 12 hours
  • “Videos and Podcasts to Humanize the Student’s Online Experience” (2020, Unviersidad Internacional de Andalucía) – 12 hours
  • “How to Approach Teaching as Innovation” (2020, Universidad de Andalucía) – 12 hours
  • “The Future of Upper Education” (2020, UNIR) – 1 hour
  • “Virtual Teaching Environments” (2020, UNIR) – 1 hour
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