Ada Sánchez Lata

Ada Sánchez Lata is a PhD Candidate at GlobaLS since December 2025 and is the recipient of an FI-SDUR fellowship. She graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona in 2023, obtaining the highest possible grade for her undergraduate thesis, which focused on the innovative novel Panza de burro (2020) by the Canarian author Andrea Abreu. This initial study allowed her to confirm her interests and begin establishing lines of research regarding 21st-century Spanish literature, both from the mainland and the islands. Subsequently, she was able to work on her hypotheses in greater depth during her Master’s studies at the University of Salamanca, where she specialised in Spanish and Latin American Literature, Literary Theory, and Comparative Literature.

Her analyses link feminism and gender studies with the sociology of literature and the theory of literary language. Currently, she is developing her doctoral thesis at the Global Literary Studies Research Lab (GlobaLS), titled “From the Local to the Global: Mechanisms of Internationalisation and Consecration of So-called ‘Regional Literatures’ in the Contemporary Era (2000–2025)”. Through this research, she pursues three interrelated objectives: 1) a revision of the theoretical-conceptual framework of the term “regional literature” to formulate a prolific and contextualised categorisation proposal within the current academic field, 2) a sociology-of-literature analysis of the transnational circulation of these “regional” works, addressing the mechanisms of consecration and internationalisation that facilitate it; and 3) a translation studies inquiry into how these texts are rendered into other languages, with a particular focus on culturemes. To carry out this analysis, she works with a corpus of very recent novels closely linked to the contexts of Catalonia, the Canary Islands, and Galicia, both in terms of their thematic content and their specific linguistic characteristics.