Eider Gómez

Eider Gómez holds a Bachelor's degree in English Studies from the University of the Basque Country. After graduating, she started working on her PhD. She got her Certificate of Advanced Studies in Comparative Literature and Literary Science (CAS) with her dissertation. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies from the EHU, with a thesis examining how four authors of her choice resisted the trauma caused by the Second World War. They resisted by using similar coping and resisting mechanisms as the Holocaust victims. Moreover, in her thesis, she offers evidence that both men and women used the same or similar techniques to deal with the trauma and the war consequences.

While writing her thesis and working, she has participated in different activities offered by the PhD program, including the Effective Public Presentation in English course, which helped her create a poster about trauma in Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness that she later presented at the 12th ESSE Conference in Kosice. The other activities and courses offered by the University of the Basque Country PhD program focused on the elaboration and writing of the thesis, as well as its use in future studies. Apart from focusing on the topic of her thesis, she has also researched Asian-American literature and how trauma is presented in novels written by authors such as David Mura, John Okada, and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoir. At the same time that she wrote her thesis and attended the different PhD activities, she taught English for years at an academy, as well as extracurricular lessons at a school and, in recent years, at the University of the Basque Country.