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

Publications

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Journal Articles

(2025) “A Typology of Screen Presence in Sci-Fi Horror:  from The Twilight Zone to The Social Dilemma.” Atlantis, 47(2), pp. 69-84.

(2024) “Feeding Anxieties and the Identity of the Artist: the Monstrous Mother in Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch (2021).” Esferas Literarias, 7, pp. 91-104.

(2022) “Don DeLillo’s Adapted Novels: the Treatment of Language, Space, and Time on Screen.” Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 66, pp. 151-169.

(2021) “Mujeres en la pantalla: La bruja feminista en Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” Clepsydra. Revista Internacional de Estudios de Género y Teoría Feminista, pp. 79-98.

(2020) “Cancel Culture: The Phenomenon, Online Communities and Open Letters.” PopMeC Research Blog, pp. 1-13.

(2020) “Bad Bunny Perrea Sola: the Gender Issue in Reggaeton.” PopMeC Research Blog, pp. 1-7.

(2017) “A Place of Your Own: Looking for a Space Outside the Sphere of Commodification in Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street.” Leaves, pp. 179-189.

Book Chapters

(forthcoming) “Aural Interruptions: Alternative World Stories as a Break in Sonic Identity”

(2024) “Media Tech Horror: Aural Haunting and Cosmic Terror in the Archive 81 Tape Recordings” in The Gothic in Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture, eds. Anna Marta Marini and Michael Fusch. Brill, pp. 191-204.

(2023) “JFK in Dallas: Collective Memory, Media Events, and Don DeLillo’s Libra” in Presidents and Place: America’s Favorite Sons, eds. Thomas Cobb and Olga Akroyd. Lexington Books, pp. 141-156.

(2021) “The Intersectional Heroine of Digital TV Narratives: Intertextuality, Affect and Fandom in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” in Discourse, dialogue and characterisation in TV series, eds. Carmen Gregori-Signes et al. Comares, pp. 127-140.

(2020) “A Screen in Between: Intertextuality, Consciousness and Interpersonal Communication in Don DeLillo” in Thresholds and Ways Forward in English Studies, eds. Lourdes López Ropero et. al. Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante, pp. 43-50.

(2018) “El drag más allá del lip-sync: análisis de la producción audiovisual de Jinkx Monsoon.” Más allá de la pantalla: música, sonido, imagen, ed. Enrique Encabo. elpoblet edicions, ebook. [with Carla Miranda Rodríguez]

Edited and co-edited Issues

(2024) “Darkness in the American Audiovisual Imagination.” Special dossier co-edited with Anna Marta Marini. REN Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 28.

(2023) “STEM in US Popular Culture: Assessing Gender Discourse, Stereotypes and Mainstreaming, 2.” Special dossier co-edited with Erika Tiburcio Moreno. REDEN: Revistas Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 4, no. 1.

(2022) “STEM in US Popular Culture: Assessing Gender Discourse, Stereotypes and Mainstreaming, 1.” Special dossier co-edited with Erika Tiburcio Moreno. REDEN: Revistas Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 4, no. 1.

(2022) “Conversations on the Gothic in Popular Culture.” Special issue co-edited with Anna Marta Marini. REDEN: Revistas Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 3, no. 2

(2021) “New Fictional Formats & Age-Old Narratives: Understanding Creative Modes of Popular Culture in the Digital Age.” Special issue. PopMeC Research Blog.

Other Contributions

(2023) [Book review] “Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction, by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno.” Nexus, 2023.01, pp. 59-60.

(2022) [Interview] “Digital Gothic: an Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes.” REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 16-30.

(2022) [Interview] “Posthuman/cyber-gothic: an Interview with Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe.” REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 16-30.

(2021) [Blog post] “William Faulkner & the Screen: the Writer Through Cinema.” PopMeC Research Blog, pp. 1-3.

(2021) [Blog post] “The Presidency Will Be Televised: JFK’s Media Legacy.” PopMeC Research Blog, pp. 1-4.

(2020) [Blog post] “Louisa May Alcott’s Birth Anniversary: Run Little Women Run!” PopMeC Research Blog, pp. 1-3.

(2020) [Online article] “Aquella vez que Michael Jackson le cantó una canción a una rata.” Canino.

(2020) [Online article] “Educación mediática en el universo de los ensayos visuales de YouTube.” Canino.

(2020) [Blog post] “Nadín Ospina: Encounters with the Other.” PopMeC Research Blog, pp. 1-7.

(2019) [Online article] “Viajes en el tiempo, hoy: ¿están las ficciones temporales atrapadas en un loop?” Canino.

(2019) [Blog post] “Guía para comenzar las vacaciones.” Diálogo Atlántico.

(2019) [Blog post] “Siri Hustvedt, premios literarios y feminismos.” Diálogo Atlántico.

(2018) [Proceedings] “La damisela y el monstruo: Construcción de relaciones románticas arquetípicas en Star Wars: El despertar de la fuerza” in Hilos violeta: nuevas propuestas feministas, un diálogo abierto, eds. Comité Organizador Noviembre Feminista 2016. Publicaciones Universidad Complutense, pp. 309-319.

(2018) [Blog post] “Cuatro recomendaciones para ponerte al día.” Diálogo Atlántico.

(2017) [Proceedings] “Violencia en la pantalla: proyección de imágenes violentas en Cero K y Punto Omega.” Sextas Jorandas de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Universidad de Alcalá (Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales). Universidad de Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones, pp. 153-161.

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