Project Team

Catherine Davies (Lic Filol Complutense Madrid, PhD Glasgow)

Catherine Davies ist Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies an der »School of Modern Languages« der Universität Nottingham.
Derzeitige Forschungsprojekte: Das Werk von Simón Bolívar und lateinamerikanische Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Letzte Veröffentlichungen:

• Rosalía de Castro no seu tempo, Galaxia, Vigo, 1987;
• Contemporary Feminist Fiction in Spain. Montserrat Roig and Rosa Montero, Berg, Oxford, 1994;
• Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba: An Eight Point Survey, in Framing the Word. Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing, ed. by Joan Anim-Addo, Whiting and Birch, London, 1994;
• (ed. with Anny Brooksbank Jones) Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996;
• A Place in the Sun?: Women Writers in Twentieth-century Cuba, Zed, London, 1997;
• (ed. with Jane Whetnall) Hers, Ancient and Modern. Women's Writing in Spain and Brazil from the Middle Ages to the Present, Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Series, Manchester, 1997;
• Modernity, Masculinity and Imperfect Cinema in Cuba, Screen, 38.4, Winter: 345-359 1997;
• Spanish Women's Writing (1849-1996), Athlone, London, 1998;
• Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: The Postcolonial Intellectual and the Politics of Cultural Representation, in Postcolonial Perspectives on Latin American and Lusophone Cultures, ed. by Robin Fiddian, Liverpool University Press, 2000;
• Surviving (on) the Soup of Signs: Postmodernism, Politics and Culture in Cuba, Latin American Perspectives, 27.4: 103-121, 2000;
• Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldaña, in Comparing Postcolonial Literatures. Dislocations, ed. by Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray, Macmillan, pp. 205-218, 2000;
• Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Sab, ed. with introduction and notes, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001;
• (ed.) The Companion to Hispanic Studies, Arnold, London, 2002;
• Mother Abandoned: Voice, Alienation and Modernization in 'Ultimos días de una casa' (1958) by Dulce María Loynaz, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool), 80, 370-386, 2003.

Dr Hilary Owen, BA (Jt. Hons.), Ph.D. (Nottingham)

Hilary Owen ist Senior Lecturer in Portuguese an der Universität Manchester.
Derzeitige Forschungsprojekte: Postkoloniale feministische Analysen von Geschlechtsidentität und Staatsbürgerschaft in Novas Cartas Portuguesas und der Three Marias' Kampagne von 1974; Widerstand in den Werken von Frauen in der portugiesischen Revolution und den afrikanischen Kolonialkriegen.

Letzte Veröffentlichungen:

• Portuguese Women's Writing 1972 to 1986: Reincarnations of a Revolution (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).
• Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Modern Portuguese-Speaking Culture (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996)
• "Back to Nietzsche: the making of an intellectual/woman. Lídia Jorge's A Costa dos Murmúrios." Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 2 (Spring, 1999): 79-98.
• "Discardable Discourses in Patrícia Galv¤o's Parque Industrial." Brazilian Feminisms, eds. Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira & Judith Still, The University of Nottingham Monographs in the Humanities, 12 (Nottingham: The University of Nottingham, 1999): 68-84.
• "Uma Inconclus¤o Superadora: A Machereyan Feminist Reading of A Sibila by Agustina Bessa Luís." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) LXXV.2 (1998): 201-12.
• "Um quarto que seja seu: the quest for Camšes' sister." Portuguese Studies, 11 (1995), 179-91

Claire Brewster, B.A., M.A., PhD. Warwick.

Claire Brewster ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des AHRC-Projekts (80%) und Lecturer in American History an der Universität Newcastle (20%)
Derzeitiges Forschungsprojekt: Darstellung spanisch-amerikanischer Frauen und Beschreibung der Geschlechterdifferenz im geschriebenen Wort (Literatur, Briefe, Tagebücher, Zeitungsartikel, Dokumente und die neuen Staatsverfassungen) in der Zeit von 1790 bis 1850.

Arbeitstexte:

• 'Gendering Latin American Independence I: Late colonial society, an overview '
• 'Gendering Latin American Independence II: "Amazons or innocents?" Women's contribution to the cause'

Letzte Veröffentlichungen:

• “The Student Movement of 1968 and the Mexican Press: An examination of Excélsior and Siempre”, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21/2, 2002, pp.171-190.
• “Women and the Spanish American Wars of Independence: an Overview”, Feminist Review, Special edition Latin America: History, War and Independence, 79, 2005, pp.20-35.
• Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mexico: The Political Writings of Paz, Fuentes, Monsiváis and Poniatowska, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, October 2005.
• Brewster, K. and Brewster, C. "Sombreros and Skyscrapers: The Question of Image in the 1968 Mexico Olympics", in Alan Tomlinson & Christopher Young (eds.), National Identity and Global Events: Culture, Politics and Spectacle in the Olympics and Football World Cup, State University of New York Press, New York, Autumn 2005.

Charlotte Liddell, B.A., PhD, Manchester

Charlotte Liddell arbeitet über das Werk der Schriftstellerin und Erzieherin Nisia Floresta Brasileira Augusta (1810-1885), die in den Jahrzehnten nach der brasilianischen Unabhängigkeit von 1822 publiziert hat.

Titel der Dissertation:

Iona Macintyre, B.A., MA, Glasgow

Iona McIntyres Dissertation behandelt das Gebiet »Gender« und Druckkultur in Argentinien. Sie war Schriftführerin der Organisation PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) und ist Mitglied der englischen Society of Latin American Studies. Zuletzt hat sie in Argentinien, Uruguay und Paraguay geforscht.

Titel der Dissertation:

• Gender and print culture in early nineteenth century Buenos Aires