Members

MEMBERS OF WISPS

 

Barrow, Sarah
Position / Title: Professor, Film and Media
Institution: University of East Anglia (UEA)
Research Areas: Peruvian cinema and culture; indigeneity; Amazonian women's leadership.

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Battaglia, Diana
Position / Title: Assistant Professor in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Institution: University College Dublin
Research Areas: Hispanic Studies; Latin American literature, especially Cuban literature; Spanish and Latin American crime fiction; literary theory; gender and memory studies; cultural studies.

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Brown, Katie
Position / Title: Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies
Institution: University of Exeter
Research Areas: Contemporary Venezuelan literature; narratives of migration; translation and publishing; women's writing; medieval Spain.

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Capdevila-Argüelles, Nuria
Position / Title: Professor of Hispanic Studies & Gender Studies
Institution: University of Exeter
Research Areas: Autobiography; female authorship; modern and contemporary Spain; feminisms; gender historiography; poetry.

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Chavez Diaz, Liliana
Position / Title: Lecturer in Latin American Studies
Institution: University of St Andrews
Research Areas: Self-identity and otherness as represented and/or performed in nonfiction and journalistic narratives in contemporary Latin America. Latin American and Latina women’s testimonial writing and crónicas de viaje (travel writing).

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Coelho, Maria Luisa
Position / Title: Portuguese Lecturer
Institution: University of Oxford
Research Areas: Transcultural dialogues, in particular Anglo-Portuguese relations; feminist and gendered approaches to art, with a focus on contemporary women artists; diasporic identities in the Portuguese-speaking world.

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Davies, Catherine
Position / Title: Professor Emerita
Institution: Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London
Research Areas: Women's writing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain and Spanish America, primarily Cuba and Argentina, particularly poetry.

 

Fernandez-Ramos, Irene
Position / Title: Postdoctoral researcher
Institution: Queen Mary University of London
Research Areas: Digital cultural studies; al-Andalus; folklore studies; Spanish traditional music; queer theory; affect theory; digital folklore.

 

Gallardo, Matilde
Position / Title: Affiliated researcher
Institution: King´s College London
Research Areas: History of language learning and teaching (HoLT); women in translation; applied language teaching and learning.

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Geraghty, Clare
Position / Title: Lecturer
Institution: University College Cork
Research Areas: Latin American cultural studies; gender; Cuba; feminisms; queer theory; archives.

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Harvey-Kattou, Liz
Position / Title: Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Institution: University of Westminster
Research Areas: Latin American cinema; Central American cinema.

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Murphy, Katharine
Position / Title: Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature
Institution: University of Exeter
Research Areas: Spanish modernism; comparative literature; medical humanities; gender studies.

 

Pizarro Jacinto, Laura MA ACIL
Position / Title: Postgrad Translation Studies
Institution: -
Research Areas: Translation studies; women in translation; linguistic landscapes; emergence and circulation of contemporary Latin American literature.

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Sebastià-Sáez, María
Position / Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Uppsala University
Research Areas: Classical reception; Spanish contemporary theatre; gender studies.

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Serafinceanu, Ariana
Position / Title: PhD researcher and tutor
Institution: University of St Andrews
Research Areas: Abortion studies; women's writing; life-writing; gender studies; literary theory; critical theory; motherhood studies; translation theory; Latin American literature; comparative literature; spatial theory.

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Thornton, Niamh
Position / Title: Professor of Latin American Studies
Institution: University of Liverpool
Research Areas: Latin American Studies with a particular focus on Mexican film, literature and digital culture; war story, the Mexican Revolution, trauma and memory; the curation of online selves through digital tools and user-generated content; Chicanx and Latinx studies; star studies.

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Vohnsen, Mirna
Position / Title: Lecturer in Spanish
Institution: Technological University Dublin
Research Areas: Latin American cinema; women's cinema; ethnicity; gender identity; Jewishness in film.

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