Biography

Corpus Navalón-Guzmán is a researcher in contemporary Anglophone literature and culture. Her work explores how queer identities and experiences of trauma are represented in literature and film, with a focus on questions of memory, affect, and ecology.

She is currently an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University (2025–2028). Bringing together queer theory and trauma studies, she investigates an emerging body of what she terms “queer climate trauma literature,” texts that explore how environmental collapse is experienced and narrated from queer perspectives. Through close readings of works published between 2000 and 2020, her research highlights how these narratives challenge universal ideas of climate trauma and offer new ways to think about resilience, solidarity, and social transformation.

Corpus completed her PhD in English Literature and Culture at the University of Murcia (Spain), with a dissertation titled “‘Not Just a Phase:’ Queer Trauma of Early Lives in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Cinema,” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Her work has appeared in journals such as IPICS (Cardiff University) and Humanities, as well as in edited collections including The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood. Her first book, Queer Trauma of Early Lives in Children’s Literature and Cinema, will be published by Routledge in 2026.

She is also a member of the research group Queer Memory on the Margins of Contemporary Anglophone Culture (University of Murcia) and serves as section editor for queer theory at Open Cultural Studies.

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