Marika Ahonen Editor

Cristina Garrigós is Professor of American Literature at UNED. Her research interests include US contemporary literature, film, music, postmodernism, punk, memory, and gender studies. She is the author of a monograph on John Barth, as well as coauthor of the book of interviews God Save the Queens: Pioneras del Punk (2019) with Paula Guerra and Nuria Triana. She is the editor of Punk Connections: A Transcultural Perspective, (U. of Barcelona) with Nuria Triana-Toribio. She has published on authors such as Kathy Acker, Gloria Anzaldúa, Giannina Braschi, Helena María Viramontes, Don DeLillo, or Ruth Ozeki, among others. Her last book is Alzheimer's Disease in Contemporary US Fiction: Memory Lost (2021). Marika Ahonen is a doctoral candidate in Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation examines the construction of narratives in popular music and the ethical questions raised in this context. She is examining the topic through the authorship and music of Spanish singer-songwriter Christina Rosenvinge (b. 1964). Overall, her research interests include the connection between popular music and identity, the relation of gender to agency, and the fields of narrative ethics and power mechanisms. She is also drawn to the areas of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Ahonen has won the ISCH (International Society for Cultural History) 2022 essay prize with the article titled 'Sirens, Narrative Ethics, and Christina Rosenvinge's Mi Vida Bajo el Agua'. The article will be published in the journal Cultural History in 2023.