Our multidisciplinary research covers the cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula and of the Latin American and Caribbean nations. We explore sociocultural realities of diverse communities through their varied and multimedia artistic production.
Spanish and Latin American studies at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø also facilitates interdisciplinary research on Latin America and the Caribbean across the University, and is a founding member of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Latin American and Caribbean network (R-LAC).
Staff research interests
We explore the interconnection between languages, experiences, and artistic expression in a variety of cultural contexts in Spain and Latin America. In these areas we also provide postgraduate research supervision.
Dr Cherilyn Elston
- Literary translation
- Colombian and Latin American women's writing
- Testimonial literature
- Colombian theatre
- Latin American poetry
- Colombian intellectual history
- Historiography and narratives of the Colombian armed conflict
- Colombian and Latin American feminist history and theory
Dr Marta Simó Comas
- Spanish literary and publishing cultures
- Spanish realist fiction
- The fantastic and the uncanny in contemporary Spanish fiction
- History of ideas in Modern Spain and Catalunya
Dr Catriona McAllister
- Literature and politics in the Southern Cone
- History and fiction in Latin America
- History of ideas in contemporary Argentina
- Nation-building and identity discourses in the Latin American museum
Dr Camila González Ortiz
- Contemporary drama in the Southern Cone
- Theatre translation
- Performance philosophy
- Contemporary Chilean intellectual history
- History of Latin American theatre
- Political theatre and performance in contemporary Chile
- Social movements and citizenship in Latin America
Dr Denisse Lazo-González
- The politics of fiction