Líneas de investigación:

Publicaciones (selección):

- Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction. Edited by María J. López and Pilar Villar-Argáiz. Bloomsbury, 2021.

- New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finited, Singular, Explosed. Edited by Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas, Paula Martín-Salván and María J. López. Routledge, 2018.

- J.M. Coetzee and the non-English Literary Traditions. Edited by María J. López and Kai Wiegandt. Special number of the European Journal of English Studies 20.2 (2016).

- Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011)

- “Moving in ‘a forest of hieroglyphs’: Enigmatic and mutable signs of identity in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55.5 (2019): 710-722.

- “The Gothic, the Abject and the Monstrous: A Revision of National Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” English Studies 97.5 (2016): 493-509.

- “Miguel de Cervantes and J.M. Coetzee: An Unacknowledged Paternity.” Journal of Literary Studies 29.4 (2013): 80-97.

- “Communities of mourning and vulnerability: Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow.” English in Africa 40.1 (May 2013): 99-117.

- “‘You are one of us’: Communities of Marginality, Vulnerability and Secrecy in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” English Studies in Canada 38.2 (June 2012): 157-177.

- “J.M. Coetzee and Patrick White: Explorers, Settlers, Guests.” In Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, ed. Chris Danta, Sue Kossew & Julian Murphet. Continuum, 2011, 35-49.

- “Can We Be Friends Here? Visitation and Hospitality in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Journal of Southern African Studies 36.4 (December 2010): 923-938.

- “Foe: A Ghost Story.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 45.2 (June 2010): 295-310.