English Seminar Series: Women’s Solidarity in Contemporary Fiction: Nigeria, Chile, and Pakistan

Yeisil Peña Contreras is a PhD student at Northumbria University. She studies tricontinental solidarities in contemporary Postcolonial literature written by women from Nigeria, Pakistan, and Chile. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory, and recent political movements involving women. She taught English literature and Academic Writing in Chile for five years before moving to New Zealand to teach Spanish. She engages with subaltern voices in English and Spanish and has published on African literature and Postcolonial approaches to feminism in the African American Context.