Jorge
Diego Sánchez is Assistant Professor at University of Salamanca. His academic
background focuses on Postcolonial theory, Gender and Cultural Studies in
English with a focus on literature, cinema and dance from India and its
diaspora. He has published articles about Meena Kandasamy, Sarojini Naidu,
Anuradha Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rokeya Hosain or Cornelia Sorabji; filmmakers
Deepa Mehta or Mira Nair and TV shows like Kumars
on the No. 42.
His essay “ Paratactic Indianness and Empowering Womanhood in Sarojini Naidu’s
Poems” was published in Indian Poetry in English edited by Zinia Mitra. He
is a member of the Erasmus+ Research Project “Hospitality in European Film”
(funded by the European Union from 2017-2020), the Research Project “Narratives of Resilience: Intersectional
Perspectives about Literature and Other Contemporary Cultural Representations”
(funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness 2015-2018) and
Research Project “Unpublished Female Writers in Spanish between 1880-1920: A
Renovation of the Literary Canon)” (SA019P17) (funded by European Union through
F.E.D.E.R. He has completed academic and teaching activities at Trinity College
Dublin (Ireland), University of Hyderabad (India) and Jadavpur University
(Kolkata, India). He is interested in Indian Poetry, Literature
and Film Studies.