Cornelia Gräbner (Graebner) is a lecturer in Hispanic Studies at
Lancaster University, U.K. She holds an M.A. in Comparative
Literature from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a PhD in
Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Her research revolves around political commitment in
literature, especially - but not exclusively - poetry. Her main
areas of interest are Performance Poetry, cultural and poetic
interventions in urban space, the poetics of resistance, and
committed writing in 20th and 21st century Mexico, especially
representations of the guerrilla and of the dirty wars in Latin
America. She currently researches on the contribution of literature
and poetic language to imaginaries of alterglobalisation. She is a
member of the network Poetics of Resistance www.poeres.org. For
further information see
http://lancs.academia.edu/CorneliaGraebner/About
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/profiles/766/4/