Dr Kirsty Hooper

DR KIRSTY HOOPER
Hispanic Studies, Humanities Building, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Email k.hooper@warwick.ac.uk | Web www.kirstyhooper.net | Twitter @booksonspain
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor and Reader in
Hispanic Studies
University of Warwick
2012-
Senior Lecturer (2011-12) / Lecturer
in Spanish and Galician
University of Liverpool
2004-12
College Lecturer in Spanish
The Queen's College Oxford
2003-4
Laming Junior Fellow
The Queen's College Oxford
2002-3
Temporary Part-time Lecturer in
Spanish
University of Oxford
2002-4
Visiting Tutor in Spanish and Latin
American Studies
Goldsmiths University of London
2001-3
DPhil Modern Languages
University of Oxford
Funding: BA/AHRB doctoral award
2003
MSt Slavonic Studies (Polish)
with Distinction
Hertford College, Oxford
Funding: Starun Senior Scholarship in
Polish Studies
1998
BA Modern Languages (Spanish)
with First Class Honours
Hertford College, Oxford
1997
HIGHER EDUCATION
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
MA in Digital Humanities
(expected completion 2015)
University College, London
2011-
PGCert Learning and Teaching in
Higher Education with Distinction
University of Liverpool
2009
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PUBLICATIONS AND DIGITAL PROJECTS
(* = in progress)
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
*Buffery, Helena, Elena Delgado, Kirsty Hooper, Jo Labanyi, Mari Jose Olaziregi. A Cultural
History of Modern Spanish Literature. Co-authored monograph. Under contract to Polity Press.
Submission May 2013. Publication expected 2014.
*Hooper, Kirsty. The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession. Sole-authored
monograph. Under contract to Liverpool University Press.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Hooper, Kirsty. Mondariz-Vigo-Santiago. A Brief History of Galicia’s Edwardian Tourist Boom.
Mondariz: Fundación Mondariz Balneario, 2013.
Hooper, Kirsty. Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics. Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 2011. 186pp.
Parts of Chapter 1 adapted and translated as *Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Revisitando as “novas
cartografías” da cultura galega: lecturas posnacionais, lecturas relacionais.’ Galicia21 Vol. D
(2012): 44-56. Available at: http://www.galicia21journal.org/D/pdf/Galicia21_4_Hooper.pdf
Hooper, Kirsty. A Stranger in my own Land: Sofía Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European fin
de siècle. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. 235pp.
Chapter 1 translated and reprinted as: Hooper, Kirsty. ‘El doctor Wolski (1894) de Sofía
Casanova en su contorno.’ [Introduction to] Sofía Casanova, El doctor Wolski: páginas de
Polonia y Rusia. Astorga: Editorial Akrón, 2008: 10-55.
DIGITAL PROJECTS
*Hooper, Kirsty. Hispanic Liverpool. Community History Database.
http://www.kirstyhooper.net/home-page/hispanic-liverpool/
Aims to uncover the traces of Liverpool’s role as a hub in the 19th-century networks that
connected Spain and Portugal with Latin America. Phase I contains detailed biographical
records for some 2000 individuals of Luso-Hispanic origin resident in Liverpool between
1800-1920. Public web platform currently under development.
*Hooper, Kirsty. The Atlantis Project: Women and the Word in Spain, 1890-1936.
http://atlantis.kirstyhooper.net
Gathers bio-bibliographical records for some 500 women writing in all languages and all
genres whose works were published, circulated, read or commented on in Spain during the
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decades between 1890 and the outbreak of civil war in 1936. Public web platform currently
under development.
EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNALS
Hooper, Kirsty and Manuel Puga Moruxa. Eds. Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies:
Between the Local and the Global. Collection of 18 essays. New York: Modern Language
Association, 2011. 344pp.
Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena and Kirsty Hooper. Eds. ‘Critical Approaches to the Nation in
Galician Studies’. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 86.2 (2009).
Buffery, Helena, Stuart Davis and Kirsty Hooper. Eds. Reading Iberia: Theory, History,
Identity. Collection of 11 essays. Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang. 2007.
Hooper, Kirsty. Ed. ‘New Spaces, New Voices: Notes on Contemporary Galician Studies’. Journal
of Spanish Cultural Studies 7.2 (2006).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Spas, Steamships, and Sardines: Edwardian Package Tourism and the
Marketing of Galician Regionalism.’ Journal of Tourism History 4.2 (2012): 205-224.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Between Canon, Archive, and Database: Spain’s Women Intellectuals, 18901920, Notes on a Work in Progress.’ Siglo Diecinueve 16 (2010): 195-217.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Consuming Nationalism? Taste, Language and the Novel in Constitutional
Galicia.’ Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 44.3 (2010): 635-655.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘The Many Faces of Julio Iglesias: From Emigration to the Network Society.’
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10.2 (2009): 149-166.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Death and the Maiden: Gender, Nation, and the Imperial Sacrifice in Blanca de
los Ríos’s Sangre española (1899)’. Revista Hispánica Moderna 60.2 (2007): 171-185
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Alternative Genealogies? History and the Dilemma of Origins in Two Recent
Novels by Galician Women’. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 10 (2007): 45-58
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Novas cartografías nos estudos galegos: Nacionalismo literario, literatura
nacional, lecturas posnacionais’. Anuario de Estudos Literarios Galegos 2005 (2006): 64-73.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Galicia desde Londres desde Galicia: New Voices in the 21st-Century Diaspora’.
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7.2 (2006): 171-188
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Reading Spain’s African Vocation: The figure of the Moorish priest in three fin
de siglo novels (1891-1907)’. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 40.1 (2006): 175-99.
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Hooper, Kirsty. 'Girl, Interrupted: The Distinctive History of Galician Women's Narrative’.
Romance Studies 21/2 (2003): 101-114.
Hooper, Kirsty. 'Fin de siècle Anxieties and Future(s) Perfect: Sofía Casanova's El doctor Wolski
(1894)'. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 79/2 (2002): 175-87.
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘A desaparición da neve (2009) de Manuel Rivas: ¿hacia una po/ética
relacional?’ In Sadi Lakhdari, ed., Voces de Galicia: Manuel Rivas et Suso de Toro. Paris: Indigo
& Côté Femmes, 2012.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘New Cartographies in Contemporary Galician Narrative.’ In Hooper & Puga,
eds., Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011:
272-288.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘The poetics of displacement in the poetry of Ramiro Fonte.’ In Luis MartínEstudillo & Nicolás Spadaccini, eds., New Spain, New Literatures. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP,
2010: 43-60.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Sofía Casanova e o apagamento da muller intelectual no s.XX español.’ In Antón
Pazos, ed., Feminino singular: Vida e tempo de Sofía Casanova. Santiago de Compostela: CSIC /
Instituto de Estudos Galegos “Padre Sarmiento,” 2010: 59-73.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘”Las autoras de unas novelitas”? Spanish Women Writers 1890-1916’. In
Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American
Studies. Eds. Ann Davies, Parvathi Kumaraswami & Claire Williams. Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars’ Press, 2008: 43-60.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘”This Festering Wound”: Negotiating Spanishness in Galician Cultural
Discourse’. Cristina Sánchez-Conejero, ed., Spanishness in 20th- and 21st-century Narrative and
Film. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2007: 147-156.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘New Cartographies in Galician Studies: From Literary Nationalism to
Postnational Readings’. In Buffery, Davis & Hooper, eds, Reading Iberia. Oxford / Bern: Peter
Lang, 2007: 123-139.
TRANSLATIONS
Hooper, Kirsty. Translation from the Galician of an extract from Valentín Lamas Carvajal’s O
Catecismo do labrego (1888). In Jonathan Dunne, ed., Anthology of Galician Literature, 11961981. Vigo: Galaxia, 2010.
Obradoiro de Traducción galego-inglés. Contemporary Galician Short Stories. Co-translator.
Brighton: Foreign Demand (Boca2Mouth), 2008.
Hooper, Kirsty, Isabel Mancebo Portela, Craig Patterson, Manuel Puga Moruxa. Things
(Cousas) by Alfonso R. Castelao. Aberystwyth: Planet, 2001.
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Hooper, Kirsty. Translation from the Polish of a selection of poems from Marcin Świetlicki's
Schizma (Gladyszów, 1999) in Central Europe Review, Vol. 1/21, 15th November 1999.
MISCELLANEOUS
(Adviser and linguistic supervisor to) Manuela Palacios, ed., Forked Tongues. Galician, Basque
and Catalan Women’s Poetry in Translations by Irish Writers. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2012.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Catherine Gasquoine Hartley;’ ‘Walter M Gallichan.’ Dictionary of National
Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP (September 2011 update).
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘As viaxeiras británicas a Galicia e a poesía de Rosalía de Castro.’ Festa da
Palabra Silenciada 25 (2011).
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘¿Campo neutral? Literatura y esfera pública en la Revista Gallega (18951907).’ Literatura hispánica y prensa periódica (1875-1931). Actas del I Congreso
Internacional. Santiago de Compostela: U. de Santiago de Compostela, 2009: 677-82.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Contemporary Galician Literature: An Introduction.’ In Contemporary Galician
Short Stories. Obradoiro de Traducción Galego-Inglés. Brighton: Foreign Demand
(Boca2Mouth), 2008.
Hooper, Kirsty and Sue Purnell. 'So Long, Auf Wiedersehen, Adios: Issues in the Retention of
'Commuter Students' in Languages and Area Studies'. Proceedings of the European First Year
Experience Conference 2008. Wolverhampton: University of Wolverhampton, 2008.
Hooper, Kirsty. 'Néveda en contexto: muller e libro rexional na España finisecular'. In María
Xesús Lama López, ed., Actas do VII Congreso Internacional de Estudos Galegos: “Mulleres en
Galicia / Galicia e os outros pobos da Península.” Barcelona: Centro de Estudos Galegos, 2008.
Hooper, Kirsty. ‘Forum’ (a series of interviews with prominent Galician artists and
intellectuals). In Kirsty Hooper, ed., ‘New Spaces, New Voices: Notes on Contemporary
Galician Studies.’ Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7.2 (2006): 103-122.
Hooper, Kirsty. 'A Spanish Woman in the Orient: Sofia Casanova's Sobre el Volga helado (1903)'.
In: R Archer, V Astvaldsson, S Boyd & M Thompson. ed(s). Antes y después del Quijote: en el
cincuentonario de la Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda. Valencia: Biblioteca
Valenciana, 2005.
RECENT FUNDING AND AWARDS
Philip Leverhulme Prize 2012-2015
£70,000 Leverhulme Trust
2011
Liverpool Lives research network (lead
£1800
2011
University of Liverpool Research
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applicant)
Incubation Award
Cultural Landscapes of European Port
Cities, 1840-present: State of
Research and Future Directions (coapplicant)
£4325
University of Liverpool Research
Incubation Award
2011
Hispanic Liverpool database
development
£1500
University of Liverpool
Knowledge Exchange Award
2010
Writing Galicia in/to the World: New
Cartographies, New Poetics
£23780
AHRC Research Leave Award
2009
Coming Out of the Nation? Beyond the
National in Contemporary Galician
Cultural Production
£1672
British Academy Conference
Grant
2008
Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and
Cinema of the 20th-21st Century
£500
British Academy Overseas
Conference Grant
2006
Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic (coapplicant)
£1912
British Academy Conference
Grant
2006
Module Name
Role
Level
Researching Migration, Exile and Diaspora in the
Hispanic World
Designed, convened, taught
Level 3
Contemporary Iberian Women’s Writing
Designed, convened, taught
Level 3
Representations of History in Spanish Literature
and Culture
Designed, convened, taught
Level 2
Galician Studies: Language, Culture, Identity
Designed, convened, taught
Level 2
Intro to Hispanic Studies I/II
Designed, convened (2004-9),
taught
Level 1
Advanced Spanish Language I/II
Designed, convened (2004-9),
taught
Level 1
Undergraduate Dissertation
Contributor
Level 3
European Modernism
Contributor
Level 3
Society and Alienation in European Fiction 1770-
Contributor
Level 2
TEACHING AND EXAMINING
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL - UNDERGRADUATE
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1890
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION (* = UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)
Field
Supervisory Relationship
Degree
Start
End
Galician Studies
Primary Supervisor
MA
2013
2013
*Iberian Studies
Primary supervisor
PhD
2011
2014
*Galician Studies
Primary supervisor
PhD
2010
2014
*Galician Studies
Primary supervisor
MA
2010
2011
*Catalan Studies
Primary supervisor
MA
2009
2010
*Galician Studies
Primary supervisor
MA
2009
2010
*Portuguese Studies
Second supervisor
PhD
2006
2009
*Basque Studies
Primary supervisor
MA
2006
2007
TEACHING AND EXAMINING (EXTERNAL)
SUPERVISION OF EXTERNAL POSTGRADUATES
Home Institution
Supervisory relationship
Degree
Start
End
U Complutense
External supervisor, visiting student
PhD
2012
2012
U de Zaragoza
External supervisor, visiting student
PhD
2012
2012
UNC Chapel Hill
Dissertation committee member
PhD
2011
2014
U de La Laguna
External supervisor, visiting student
PhD
2011
2011
U of Oxford
Joint supervisor
DPhil
2011
2013
EXTERNAL EXAMINING: RESEARCH DEGREES
U de La Laguna,
Member of examination panel
PhD
2012
U da Coruña
Member of examination panel
PhD
2011
U da Coruña
Member of examination panel
PhD
2011
U de Vigo
Assessor, European doctorate
PhD
2010
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U de Vigo
Assessor, European doctorate
PhD
2009
EXTERNAL EXAMINING: TAUGHT DEGREES
Aston University
External Examiner in Spanish
BA
2012
2015
Birkbeck College,
External Examiner in Spanish
MA
2012
2015
Bangor University
External Examiner in Spanish
MA
2011
2014
Bangor University
External Examiner in Spanish
BA
2011
2014
LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Executive Committee Member
Humanities Research Centre
2012-
Member
University E-Learning Steering Committee
2012
Admissions Tutor
Hispanic Studies
2012-
Web Co-ordinator
Hispanic Studies
2012-
Member, Research & Knowledge
Exchange Committee
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2012
Academic Project Lead, Faculty Research
Webpages
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2012
Departmental Director of Research
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2011-2012
Member, Research & Knowledge
Exchange Committee
School of Histories, Languages, and
Cultures
2011-2012
Founding member, Digital Humanities
Group
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences /
Business Gateway
2011-2012
Senior Tutor
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2009-2011
Chair, Progress Committee
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2009-2011
Chair, Staff-Student Liaison Committee
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2009-2011
Leader, Migrations, Places, Identities
Research Group
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2009-2011
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
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Member, Peer Review Panel
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2007-2012
Member, Faculty Progress Committee
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
2006-2012
Member, Mitigating Circumstances
Committee
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2006-2011
Member, Recruitment, Admissions,
Progress and Destinations
subcommittee
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2006-2010
Year 1 Tutor
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2006-2009
Widening Participation Co-ordinator
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2006-2009
Member, Research & Postgraduate
subcommittee
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2004-2010
Year One Advanced Spanish Language
co-ordinator
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2004-2009
Year One Hispanic Studies Foundational
Module (I/II) co-ordinator
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2004-2009
Secretary to the Board of Studies
Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
2004-2005
EDITORIAL ROLES
Editorial Board Member
La Cuestión Palpitante: Los siglos XVIII y
XIX en España (Book series;
Iberoamericana-Vervuert Verlag)
2012-
Editorial Board Member
Migrations & Identities (Book series;
Liverpool University Press)
2010-
Editorial Board Member
TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral
Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic
World
2010-
Editorial Board Member
Galicia21: Journal of Contemporary
Galician Studies
2008-
Assistant Editor
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
2004-2012
COMMITTEE SERVICE & MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Academic Board Member
Liverpool Centre for Port and Maritime
History
2011-
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AHGBI Representative
Advisory Council on Latin American and
Iberian Information Resources
2009-
Chair
AHGBI / WISPS Dorothy Sherman Severin
Early-Career Research Fellowship
Committee
2008-
Executive Committee Member
(Member, 1998-)
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain
and Ireland
2007-2013
Executive Committee Member
(Member, 2003-)
Women in Spanish, Portuguese and LatinAmerican Studies
2004-2009
Member
Asociación Internacional de Literatura y
Cultura Femenina Hispánica
2004-
Member
Modern Language Association
1998-
PEER REVIEW AND RESEARCH ASSESSMENT
Member, Research Fellowships Panel D
AHRC
2012
Member, Research Fellowships Panel D
AHRC
2011
Member, Studentships Panel D
AHRC
2010
Member, Peer Review College
AHRC
2007-
Jury Member, Translation Prize
Universidade de Vigo
2006
Assessor, Postdoctoral Fellowships
Government of Ireland
2006
Contributor, Review of Research in
Modern Languages
AHRC, U of Southampton, UCML, LLAS
Subject Centre
2006
Reviewer for international journals and scholarly presses, including:
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (US); Galician Review (UK); Gender and
Language (international); Grial (Spain); Hispanic Research Journal (UK); Hispanic
Review (US); History & Memory (US); Hodder Headline (UK); Journal of Romance
Studies (UK); Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (US/UK); Legenda (UK); Letras
Femeninas (US); Letras Hispanas (US); Lexington Press (US); MLR (UK); Nationalities
Papers (US); Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (US); Wadabagei (US)
2004-
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RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES
FUNDED INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Project
Funder
Director
El proceso de nacionalización
“española" en el País Vasco
contemporáneo (1808-1979)
MCE
Luis Castells, Universidad del País
Vasco, Spain.
2011-2014
Mujeres escritoras en la Galicia
del siglo XIX
Xunta de
Galicia
Antón Pazos, Instituto de Estudios
Galegos “Padre Sarmiento” / CSIC,
Spain.
2011
La producción del lugar.
Cartografías literarias y
modelos críticos.
MCE
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza,
Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
2010-2013
Unha análise da obra narrativa
de Rosalía de Castro:
fundamentos teóricos e
metodolóxicos
Xunta de
Galicia
María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar,
Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
2010-2012
Women Writers in History:
Towards a New
Understanding of Literary
Culture
ESF COST
Action
Suzan van Dijk, University of Utrecht,
Netherlands
2009-2013
Traducciones / adaptaciones
literarias y audiovisuales de
El Quijote para niños y
jóvenes en los sistemas
lingüístico-culturales de
Europa
MCE
Lourdes Lorenzo García, Universidade
de Vigo, Spain
2009-2011
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES
Collaborator
Tesouros de Galicia / Fundación
Mondariz Balneario
Ongoing
Adviser and subject expert
Books4Spain bookshop
Ongoing
Curator
Books on Spain blog and Twitter feed
Ongoing
Talk re: Hispanic Liverpool
University of Liverpool Continuing
Education History Programme
2012
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Talk re: Galicia e o mundo anglófono
Instituto Cañada Blanch, London
2012
Assessor, New Spanish Books 2011
Spanish Embassy in London
2011
Interview re: Writing Galicia into the World
Radio Galega – Diario Cultural
2011
Interview re: British travellers in Galicia
Radio Galega – Diario Cultural
2011
Assessor, New Spanish Books 2010
Spanish Embassy in London
2010
Interview re: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
La Voz de Galicia newspaper
2010
Interview re: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
Southport Visiter
2010
Adviser re: Liverpool Basque community
Museum of Liverpool
2010
Adviser re: Liverpool Basque Community
Euskal Museoa, Bilbao
2009
Talk on Hispanic Liverpool
Liverpool Spanish Circle
2009
Port City Lives: Landscapes, Networks,
Encounters (lead organiser)
Centre for Port & Maritime History
2012
Iberia’s Plural Cultures, Past and Present:
Reflections on Research-Led Teaching
(co-organiser with Şizen Yiacoup)
University of Liverpool
2011
Critical Peninsularisms: Theorizing Nation,
Democracy and Culture in Spain Today
(co-organiser with Ann Davies)
University of Newcastle
2011
Coming Out of the Nation? Beyond the
National in Contemporary Galician
Cultural Production (co-organiser with
Helena Miguélez-Carballeira)
University of Liverpool / Centre for
Galician Studies in Wales
2008
Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic II: Beyond
Slavery in the Iberian Atlantic (coorganiser with Dmitri van den Bersselaar
and Harald Braun)
International Slavery Museum
2007
Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic I (coorganiser with Harald Braun)
University of Liverpool
2006
VI Annual Conference of Women in Spanish,
Institute of Germanic and Romance
2005
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
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Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies
(co-organiser with Claire Williams)
Reading Iberia: Iberian Studies in Theory
and Practice (co-organiser with Stuart
Davis)
Studies
University of Birmingham
2003
CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
Digital Hispanisms
AHGBI Annual Conference, University
of Stirling
2012
Beyond the Hispanic Atlantic: New
Transoceanic and Post-colonial
Articulations (co-organiser)
MLA Annual Convention, Seattle
2012
Constitutional Spain: Democracy and
Culture
AHGBI Annual Conference, Kings
College London
2010
Re/writing, Reworking, Revoicing:
Contemporary Hispanic Poetry by
Women
WISPS Annual Conference, University of 2009
Oxford
Queer Transcultural Encounters in
Contemporary Hispanic Fiction, Film and
Poetry
WISPS Annual Conference, Dublin City
University
2008
Iberian Popular Cultures in Theory and
Practice (co-organiser)
AHGBI Annual Conference, University
of Aberdeen
2007
21st-Century Galician Studies: New Spaces,
New Voices
MLA Annual Convention, Washington
DC
2005
Iberian Encounters between the Crescent
and the Cross: New Perspectives (coorganiser)
MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia
2004
Spain is Different/Difference in Spain,
1898-1923 (co-organiser)
AHGBI Annual Conference, University
of Cambridge
2004
Reading Iberia (co-organiser)
AHGBI Annual Conference, University
of Glasgow
2003
Hispanic Liverpool: Digital and Material
Traces of a Forgotten Community
British Library
2013
A Tale of Two Empires? Global History,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
2013
INVITATIONS TO SPEAK
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Iberian Studies, and the Challenge of
Hispanic Liverpool
The Ohio State University
Ríos, fontes, mares, océanos:
Hydropoetics and the Galician Cultural
Imagination
Hispanic Studies Seminar Series,
University College Cork
2013
A Tale of Two Empires? Global History,
Iberian Studies, and the Challenge of
Hispanic Liverpool
IV E Allison Peers Symposium,
University of Liverpool
2012
La base de datos Spain’s Women
Intellectuals: hacia una segunda fase
CSIC Centro de Ciencias Humanas y
Sociales, Madrid
2012
‘Nothing's Spainful in the Exhibition': the
Failed Earl’s Court Spanish Exhibition of
1889 in the popular press
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
Seminar Series, University of Sheffield
2012
Xavier Queipo’s Glosarios: a model of
relational poetics?
Xavier Queipo Symposium, Bangor
University
2011
Spas, Steamships, and Sardines: an
Edwardian Package Holiday in Galicia
Comparative Histories of Spa Resorts,
C18-C21, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
2011
The Spatial Turn? Towards a Relational
Reading of Galician Cultural History
DELC Seminar Series, Lancaster
University
2011
La base de datos "Spain's Women
Intellectuals, 1890-1920”: Primeras
aportaciones…
Simposio: Redes públicas y las
relaciones editoriales en la España
finisecular, CSIC Madrid
2010
Raising Atlantis: the "Spain's Women
Intellectuals" database and the
limitations of the archive
Modern Languages Research Seminar,
St Andrews University
2010
A desaparición da neve de Manuel Rivas:
¿hacia una po/ética posnacional?
Colloque Suso de Toro / Manuel Rivas,
Maison de la Récherche de Paris, Paris
IV (Sorbonne)
2010
Translating Iberia(n) in a Stateless Nation:
the Case of Galicia(n).
Symposium on Iberia(n) in Translation,
University of Glasgow
2010
Early Twentieth-Century Women Writers in
Spain
Dept of Spanish & Portuguese
Postgraduate Workshop, Indiana
University Bloomington
2009
Writing Migration in Contemporary Galicia
Dept of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana
University Bloomington
2009
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Writing Migration in Contemporary Galicia
Dept of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, Montana State University
2009
Writing Migration in Contemporary Galicia
Dept of Modern and Classical
Languages and Literatures,
University of Montana
2009
Writing Migration in Contemporary Galicia
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese,
Michigan State University
2009
Writing Migration in Constitutional Galicia:
Towards a Postnational Poetics
Symposium on Constitutional Spain,
University of California Santa Barbara
2009
Writing Migration in Contemporary Galicia
Forum on Contemporary Europe,
Stanford University
2009
Sofía Casanova e o apagamento da muller
intelectual no s.XX español
Femenino singular: vida e tempo de
Sofía Casanova, CSIC Instituto de
Estudos Galegos “Padre Sarmiento”
2008
O feminismo de Sofía Casanova
Round table. CSIC Instituto de Estudos
Galegos “Padre Sarmiento”
2008
New Directions in Galician Studies
Modern Languages Research Seminar,
Bangor University
2006
Writing the Mar por medio: New Spaces of
Galician/British Identity for the 21st
Century
X Forum for Iberian Studies, University
of Oxford
2005
New Cartographies in Contemporary
Galician Narrative
Hispanic Studies Research Seminar
Series, University of Sheffield
2005
New Narratives in Galician Studies
Mellon Seminar Series on ‘Identities
and Culture in Europe’, University
College London
2005
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, 2007-PRESENT
Beyond a Geopoetics of the Periphery?
Notes from the Galician Ocean
Oceans: Concepts and Cultures, IGRS,
London
2013
The Spectre Between the Stalls: the failure
of the Earl’s Court Spanish Exhibition
(1889), ltd.
Symposium on Spanish music and its
(Western) others, Melbourne
Conservatoire
2012
Nation, Relation, (Dis)information:
feminist biography and the search for
Jesusa Alfáu [Galván] de Solalinde
WISPS Annual Conference, Bangor
University
2012
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(c.1895-1943)
Liverpool-Mundaka-Vigo-Las Palmas:
Towards a Postnational Hispanic
Atlantic Geopoetics
MLA Annual Convention, Seattle
2012
Hispanic Liverpool: Local studies, digital
data and the traces of women’s lives in
relation’
WISPS Annual Conference, IGRS,
London
2011
Expats, emigrants and academics, or,
‘Hispanic Liverpool’ and the haunting of
Liverpool Hispanism
Critical Peninsularisms, University of
Newcastle
2011
Framing the Edwardian Tourist Gaze. Media
and Multimedia in the Booth Line
Holiday Archive, 1900-1914
Liverpool Travel Seminar
2011
Jesusa Alfáu [Galván] de Solalinde (c.18951943): Digital Traces of a Life and Work
in relation
MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles
2011
Galicia and Cuba in the Long Nineteenth
Century: Towards a Geopoetics of
Relation
Trans-national Negotiations: Cuba and
Galicia, University of Birmingham
2010
Rachel Challice (1857-1909): Friendship
and Cross-Cultural Co-operation in turnof-the-century England, Spain and
Germany
Joint Annual Conference of WISPS and
WIGS, University of Swansea
2010
Sofía Casanova (Coruña, Spain, 1861 –
Poznań, Poland, 1958): Writing between
three ‘small literatures’ in late 19thcentury Europe
Women's Authorship and Literatures of
Small Countries in the 19th Century,
University of Nova Gorica, Institute of
Cultural Studies, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2010
Manuel Rivas’s A desaparición da neve:
Towards a post-Constitutional Poetics?
AHGBI Annual Conference, King’s
College London
2010
Campo neutral? Revista Gallega (18951907) and the Development of a Galician
Public Sphere
MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia
2009
Re/Writing the Archive: Erin Moure’s O
cidadán (2002) and O cadoiro (2007).
WISPS Annual Conference, University of 2009
Oxford
Towards a Poetics of the Postnational: the
Use(s) of Language in Galician Diaspora
Poetry
MLA Annual Convention, Chicago
2007
Españolas transatlánticas y el legado
Asociación Internacional de Literatura
2007
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colonial
This Festering Wound: Negotiating
Spanishness in Galician Cultural
Discourse
y Cultura Femenina Hispánica Annual
Conference, Sevilla
Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and
Cinema of the 20th-21st Century,
University of North Texas
2007
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