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Cornelia Gräbner
Cornelia Gräbner received her academic education in Germany and in the Netherlands, and is now a lecturer in Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Lancaster University, UK. She has published extensively on performance poetry, on the relationship between committed writing and social and political denunciation and transformation in the twenty-first century, and on twentieth- and twenty-first-century resistance literature in Europe and in the Americas, especially Mexico. She has collaborated on several international research projects on non-lyric and politicized poetry, has co-edited a collection on performance poetry, and special issues on the poetics of resistance and on poetry in public spaces. She is currently a fellow of the Leverhulme Trust and researches on cultural imaginaries of acquiescence in low-intensity democracies.