Esther Pujolràs Noguer is a lecturer in American and post-colonial literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has specialized in African literatures and cultures.
Her current research focuses on the convergence of race/ethnicity, constructions of whiteness in Indian Ocean writing, and postcolonial Life Writing. She is a member of the research project Aesthetics of Remembering. Empathy, Identification and Mourning and the research group Ratnakara. Indian Ocean Literatures and Cultures. (http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/ratnakara/).
She has published articles and chapters of books on African and Indian literature and cinema. She is the author of An African (Auto)biography. Ama Ata Aidoo’s Literary Quest.
ASYRAS 2017 Barcelona 