Clarisa Danae Fonseca Azuara

Clarisa Danae FONSECA AZUARA is an Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Editorial Director of ArablitE. Her research focuses on contemporary Arab studies, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of art, literature, and gender in Palestinian contexts. She is currently a member of the research group Ideologies and Arab Cultural Expressions (IEXCUL) at the Autonomous University of Madrid and participates in the research projects “Heterotopias in the Imaginaries of Relations between Spain and Morocco” (ALTERMAGREB) and “Emancipatory Concepts in the Mediterranean: Memory, Translation and Mobility in Diachrony” (CONEMED). She was also a postdoctoral researcher in the Consolidated Research Group project “Women’s Creation and Thought” (Creació i Pensament de les Dones, 2021 SGR 01097). Previously, she held a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona and a postdoctoral fellowship at The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. In addition, she has presented her research at international conferences and undertaken research stays at institutions such as the International University of Rabat and Saint Joseph University of Beirut.

Her academic work promotes a critical and multidisciplinary approach from a feminist perspective. Among her most notable publications is “‘I Have a Reason to Live Because You Are My Lady’: Palestine as Woman and Mother in Resistance Poetry” (Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Sección Árabe-Islam, vol. 73, 2024). She is also the author of the introduction to the volume Palestina, literatura i memòria: conversa amb Ibrahim Nasrallah (2025), published in the Palestina en Paraules series.