Carmen Alemany Bay

Carmen Alemany Bay is a professor of Hispano-American literature at the Universidad de Alicante (Spain). She has published approximately a hundred articles on Latin American literature, as well as others on the Spanish literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is the editor of several monographic publications and is currently director of the journal América sin Nombre and the collection Cuadernos de América sin Nombre. She has participated in many research projects; her main research areas are Hispano-American literature from the 1960s through the present, relationships between Hispano-American and Spanish literature in the twentieth century, and contemporary Hispano-American narrative written by women. She coined a new concept, within the literature of the weird, which she has termed “the narrative of the unusual.”