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

Qualifications

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PhD in North American Studies (2015-2022)
Instituto Franklin-UAH (Alcalá de Henares, Spain), supervised by Luisa Juárez Hervás.
Dissertation: “Media Saturated Lives: Don DeLillo, Mass Communication and Media Theory”
Awarded 15/06/2022 with highest mark (sobresaliente cum laude). International mention. Extraordinary Doctoral Award.

Posgraduate Program on Gender Equality Promoter (2022)
Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)

MA in Teaching Secundary Education (2014-2015)
Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (Madrid, Spain)
Specialization in English as Second Language Teaching.

MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature (2013-2014)
Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK)

BA in Communication (2009-2013)
IE University (Segovia, Spain)
Exchange semester at Sciences Po. (Paris, France)

Awards

Extraordinary PhD Award, 2023.
Humanities Branch
Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)

Waiver Award for the PCA/ACA Conference, 2022.
For the talk “Obsessive Rewatching: Television Viewing Behaviors in Contemporary US Women’s Literature.”

Catalina Montes Award, 2021.
Best talk in the Literature and Culture category, “Television Viewing Behaviors: Obsessive Rewatching in The Last Samurai and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”

IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities, 2020.
2nd place Award for best Essay in English for “The Fall of the House of Normalcy: a Literary Approach to the New Meaning of Home and the Liminal Streets.”

Other Courses

  • “Internalization workshop: from strategy to action.” Universidad de Valladolid. Certificate awarded 14/11/2025. 3 hours.
  • “Training in prevention of gender violence.” Feminarian. Universidad de Valladolid. Certificate awarded 15/12/2023. 20 hours.
  • “Awareness and prevention of sexual violence.” Feminarian. Universidad de Valladolid. Certificate awarded 15/12/2023. 20 hours.
  • “Proofreading course for publishers.” Universidad de León. Certificate awarded 20/10/2020. 55 hours.
  • “How to be a writer? Gender and authority in the contemporary literary field.” Universidad de Alcalá. Certificate awarded 30/10/2020. 24 hours.
  • “Introduction to digital textuality.” Unviersidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Certificate awarded 20/10/2020. 25 hours.
  • “Networked social activism: from self-representation to mass mobilization in the hashtag era.” Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. Certificate awarded 30/09/2020. 5 hours.
  • “Introduction to Python.” Data Camp. Certificate awarded 30/09/2020. 4 hours.
  • “Digital transformation for employment.” Escuela de Organización Industrial. Certificate awarded 01/05/2019. 80 hours.
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