Biography
Raquel Medina is a visiting research fellow at Aston University and Dean of Area Studies at IES Abroad Barcelona. She is the author of Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease and Surrealismo en la poesía española de posguerra. She has served as co-editor of Sexualidad y escritura Envejecimientos y cines ibéricos, Tecnologías de la edad and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film. She has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on cultural representations of ageing and dementia, contemporary Spanish poetry, women writers, film, and cultural studies. She is the director of the research network CinemAGEnder and co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network.