W. I. S. P. S.

Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies

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MEMBERS' RESEARCH INTERESTS 2008-2009

Members’ details are arranged alphabetically by surname. If you would like to amend your details, or you would like your details to be included, please e-mail Kirsty (Web Administrator)

Name and Affiliation	Areas of Interest	Weblinks
Inês Alves Mendes, Oxford	· 20^th-century Portuguese literature · The myth of Antigone in 20^th-century Portuguese drama · Feminist criticism
Margaret Andrews, IGRS	Hispanic Cultural Studies Cultural Memory in Romance Cultures	.
Kathy Bacon	19^th and early 20^th century Spanish literature and culture, with a particular interest in gender Appropriations of the figure of Teresa of Avila in ideological discourses from 19^th and early 20^th century Spain PhD project was on saintliness in Spanish novels published between 1870 and 1915	.
Sarah Barrow, Anglia Ruskin	Peruvian cinema and political violence Issues of world / transnational cinemas Cinema and memory	.
Ester Bautista Botello, Kings London	Latin American literature	.
María José Blanco, UCL	Contemporary women writers Carmen Martin Gaite	.
Sarah Bowskill, Swansea	Twentieth century Mexican literature Mexican history Literature of the US-Mexico borderlands Theory of the canon Gender studies.
Sara Brandellero, Oxford	20^th-century Brazilian literature and culture Brazilian Modernist poetry, specifically João Cabral de Melo Neto Contemporary Brazilian prose fiction African literature in Portuguese	.
Dorothy Calderwood, Open	Exile and identity in Latin American women’s fiction Chile
Mercedes Carbayo, Nottingham Trent	Women’s studies Nationalism and gender Popular music, cinema, and memory/amnesia	.
Margaret Anne Clarke, Portsmouth	Utopias in Brazilian literature Brazilian poetry and poetics from 1880 – 1950 Language pedagogies, with particular reference to materials development, the use of interlanguage and historical linguistics in language teaching Re-readings of Portuguese canonic authors Some contemporary Portuguese society and culture	.
Geraldine Coates, St Anne’s, Oxford	Medieval epic and historiography Golden Age theatre collective identity women’s studies.
Maria Luisa Coelho, Universidade do Minho / University of Reading	Portuguese language and literature Comparative and inter-arts studies / feminist criticism	Lusophone poets project
Jacky Collins, Northumbria	Lesbian identity in contemporary Spanish culture Spanish film Hispanic detective fiction Environment and ecology Web-based language acquisition	.
Manuela Cook, formerly Wolverhampton	Portuguese linguistics and language learning methodology