Currently a doctoral assistant at the University of Vigo, Carla Figueiras Catoira defended in 2019 the thesis ‘Analyse des ouvrages de référence des littératures africaines de langue française: les croisements idéologiques’, under the direction of Laurence Malingret at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Her main research interests are literary historiography, African literatures and French-language migrant literatures. She also focuses on the study of the construction of imaginaries, identities and memories through literary texts. It also seeks to privilege and give visibility to the voices of African women writers. Examples of articles published so far are: ‘La importancia de la solidaridad en Aya de Yopougon de Marguerite Abouet’ (2024) in Africanías. Revista de Literaturas; ‘Abouet, Bugul y Diome, tres voces enriqueciendo la memoria colectiva’ (2023) published in the collective work edited by Rita Rodríguez Varela, Narradoras de la Historia; ‘La recuperación y la transmisión de la memoria en contextos complejos’ (2019) in Los géneros de la memoria, edited by Alba Cid, Facundo Reyna and Carla Figueiras; or ‘Les migrations et le paradigme littéraire: Traoré et Agboton, exemples de littératures afro-européennes en Espagne’ (2015) in Revue Les Langues Néo-Latines: Revue des langues vivantes romanes.