Rocío Riestra-Camacho

Rocío Riestra-Camacho is a PhD candidate at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where she researches the therapeutic potential of young adult sports fiction in the treatment of anorexia. She has been awarded a scholarship from the Government of Spain to be trained as a Professor in English Philology. She holds a degree in English Studies from the University of Oviedo, having been awarded the Extraordinary End of Studies Degree Prize. She obtained her MA in Gender Studies at her home University, where she stayed for one year, and at the University of Utrecht, where she completed the degree with an Erasmus Mundus mention. She also holds an MA in Teacher Training and Language Teaching from the Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED), and is now enrolled in a Psychology degree at the same institution. Through her interest in both English literature and psychological research, Rocío has published a cognitive bibliotherapeutic analysis of J.K. Rowling’s screenplay Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (2019).

You can reach her at riestrarocio@uniovi.es or visit her Academia.edu profile.