Members
MEMBERS OF WISPS
Araya Rojas, Sandra
Position: PhD researcher, GTA and Lecturer in Spanish
Institution: King’s College London and BISC Queen’s University, UK
Research Areas: Female literature; gender; theatre; 19th century.
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Arraes Peixoto Rocha, Maria Clara
Position: Postgraduate student
Institution: Universidade Regional do Cariri, Brazil
Research Areas: Gender; sex; sexualities; justice; democracy and human rights.
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Bastos, Lucia Elena Arantes Ferreira
Position: Lawyer
Institution: Independent Human Rights Researcher, Brazil
Research Areas: International human rights; transitional justice; amnesty laws and dictatorships in Latin America; and women’s rights.
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Blanco, María-José
Position: Group Analyst (IGA, London)
Institution: King’s College London, UK
Bowskill, Sarah
Position: Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies
Institution: Queen's University Belfast, UK
Research Areas: Latin American literature and cultural studies; women's writing; canon formation; sociology of literature; book history; literary prizes and festivals; multimedia cultural production.
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Carbayo-Abengózar, Mercedes
Position: Lecturer
Institution: Maynooth University, Ireland
Research Areas: Spanish cultural studies; representation of women (and mothers) in popular culture.
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Castillo Villanueva, Alicia
Position: Assistant Professor in Spanish
Institution: Dublin City University, Ireland
Research Areas: Feminist theory; violence; conflict and memory.
Coelho, Maria Luisa
Position: Post-doctoral fellow
Institution: Universidade do Minho, Portugal/University of Oxford, UK
Research Areas: Comparative literature and inter-arts; diaspora studies with a particular focus on Anglo-Portuguese encounters in contemporary art and literature; (Portuguese) women artists and writers.
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Crosta, Alejandra
Position: Lecturer in Spanish
Institution: St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK
Research Areas: Translation; Latin American literature, film and poetry; language learning and teaching.
Cullel, Diana
Position: Professor of Hispanic Studies
Institution: University of Liverpool, UK
Research Areas: Spanish contemporary literature; Spanish and Catalan contemporary poetry; performance poetry and new forms of poetry.
Dillon, Lorna
Position: Leverhulme early career fellow
Institution: University of Cambridge, UK
Research Areas: Violeta Parra; Latin American textile art; arpilleras; Chilean art; surrealism.
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Elston, Cherilyn
Position: Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies
Institution: University of Reading, UK
Research Areas: Latin American women’s writing and feminist history, with a focus on Colombia; memory studies and transitional justice in Colombia; writing by the Colombian diaspora.
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Evans, Louise
Position: Postgraduate Research Student in Hispanic Studies
Institution: University of Liverpool, UK
Research Areas: Contemporary Spanish poetry, social media poetry, digital mediums, Golden Age poetesses, literary renown and prestige for female poets.
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Faro, Inês
Position: PhD candidate
Institution: Université de Montréal, Canada
Research Areas: Literature; Portuguese; feminism; mental health; psychoanalysis.
Farrelly, Mary
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: University College Dublin, Ireland
Research Areas: 20th century and contemporary Spanish film, theatre, and television; mysticism; religious figures; hagiography.
Glaze, Olivia
Position: PhD Researcher
Institution: University of Oxford, UK
Research Areas: Colonial War; trauma narratives; autofiction; contemporary women's writing.
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Gomez-Cash, Olga
Position: Senior Teaching Fellow in Spanish/Faculty Associate Dean, Education
Institution: University of Lancaster, UK
Research Areas: Language pedagogy; language policy; wellbeing and learning.
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Harvey-Kattou, Liz
Position: Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Westminster, UK
Research Areas: Latin American film; Central American film; literature and culture.
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Haywood, Louise
Position: Reader
Institution: Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
Research Areas: Gender, humour, identity, the body and the group in Iberian literature and culture before 1500 CE.
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Kelly, Deirdre
Position: Assistant Lecturer
Institution: Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Research Areas: Contemporary Spanish literature; contemporary Spanish women's writing; life writing; non-fiction; auto/biography; memory studies.
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Lawlor, Hannie
Position: Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature and Film
Institution: Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College, University of Oxford
Research Areas: Twentieth and twenty-first-century Spanish women’s prose and film and twenty-first-century life narrative.
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Lourenço Dias, Alexandra
Position: Camões Lecturer in Portuguese Studies and Director of Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture
Institution: King's College London, UK
Research Areas: Portuguese graphic novels; visual cultures; post-colonialism and transnationalism in Portuguese speaking Africa.
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Madden, Deborah
Position: Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institution: Lancaster University
Research Areas: Iberian feminisms; sexual violence; women's writing; biopolitics; political discourses; reproductive justice.
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O'Connor, Tracy M M
Position: Doctoral Researcher
Institution: Queen's University Belfast, UK
Research areas: Mozambican post-conflict cinema.
Ogden, Rebecca
Position: Lecturer in Latin American Studies
Institution: University of Kent, UK
Research areas: Mexico, Cuba, reproductive politics including childbirth and midwifery.
Parra Lazcano, Lourdes
Position: Teaching Fellow in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Institution: University of Aberdeen, UK
Research areas: Plant studies; animal studies; and women’s writing in Latin America, especially Mexico.
Pazos Alonso, Claudia
Position: Professor of Portuguese and Gender Studies
Institution: University of Oxford, UK
Research areas: Portuguese women's writing from the 19th century onwards; modernism and gender; periodical culture.
Peate, Ailsa
Position: Lecturer in Hispanic and Museum Studies
Institution: University of Westminster.
Research Areas: Symbolic reparations, pre-transitional and transitional justice contexts in Mexico and Colombia, representational practices and participatory action research in Mexico and Colombia, popular culture in Mexico, narcoculture in Mexico.
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Rabadán Vega, María Belén
Position: Spanish Tutor
Institution: Maynooth University, Ireland
Research Areas: María Eva Duarte de Perón; Peronism; Argentine cultural studies; translation studies.
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Rea, Lauren
Position: Professor in Latin American Studies
Institution: University of Sheffield, UK
Research Areas: Cultural history of Argentina; childhoods and children's culture; print and digital cultures.
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Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison
Position: Professor
Institution: University of Warwick, UK
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Rios Rivera, Abril
Position: Doctoral researcher and Convenor of Migration Oxford
Institution: University of Oxford
Research areas: gender and sexuality in migration, forced migration in the Global South, agency and empowerment.
Seguí, Isabel
Position: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Institution: University of Edinburgh, UK
Research areas: Bolivian cinema; Peruvian cinema; documentary; feminist film history; testimonio.
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Sinclair, Alison
Position: Professor Emeritus
Institution: University of Cambridge and Clare College, Cambridge, UK
Research areas: Digital humanities (pliegos sueltos); popular culture of 18th and 19th century Spain; history of the book; intellectual history.
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Soares, Inês Virgínia Prado
Position: Federal Judge and co-leader of the research group on Archeology of Repression and Resistance at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel – Brazil), with funding from the National Council for Scientific Development (CNPq)
Institution: Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel – Brazil)
Research Areas: Human rights and cultural rights, with emphasis on cultural heritage, archeology and collective memory; and transitional justice.
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Taylor, Claire
Position: Gilmour Chair of Spanish and Professor in Hispanic Studies
Institution: University of Liverpool, UK
Research areas: 20th and 21st century literature, particularly new and emerging digital genres (e-poetry, hypermedia narrative, blog fiction, etc), and women’s writing; memory studies, memory practices and transitional justice contexts in Latin America, especially Colombia.
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Thornton, Niamh
Position: Reader in Latin American Studies
Institution: University of Liverpool, UK
Research areas: Mexican and Chicana/o/x film, literature, and digital cultures with a particular focus on war stories, gendered narratives, star studies, cultures of taste, and distributed content.
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Usoz De la Fuente, Maite
Position: Lecturer
Institution: University of Leicester, UK
Research areas: Cultural production in post-Franco Spain, with a particular interest in women's writing and cultural representations of the 2008 crisis and its effects.
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Valderrama-Burgos, Karol (She/Her)
Position: Associate Lecturer (Ed. Focused) in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture
Institution: University of St Andrews, UK
Research Areas: Colombian and Latin American cinemas; women filmmakers’ productions; decolonial thought and representations of gender.
Varese, Monica
Position: Retired
Research Areas: Women's writing; women in art.
Vilches, Patricia
Position: Professor of Spanish and Italian
Institution: Lawrence University, USA
Research Areas: Latin American cultural and literary studies; space studies; Violeta Parra; Alberto Blest Gana.
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Vohnsen, Mirna
Position: Lecturer in Spanish
Institution: Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Research Areas: Latin American cinema; ethnicity; Jewishness; argentinidad; minorities in film; gender identity; cultural identity.
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Williams, Claire
Position: Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture
Institution: University of Oxford and St Peter’s College, UK
Research Areas: Women's writing; minority writing and life-writing from the Lusophone world.
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Iguazú Falls, Misiones, Argentina. Courtesy of Brian Vohnsen
To become a member of WISPS, please contact​
Hannie Lawlor hannie.lawlor@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
​The membership fees are as follows:
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£25 for members in full time employment (reduced to £22 if paid by Standing Order. You will find a Standing Order form by clicking here.)
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£20 for members who work part-time
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£15 for postgrad, retired members and Friends of WISPS