Project Team

Catherine Davies, Lic Filol Complutense (Madrid), PhD (Glasgow)

Current position: Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Nottingham.
Current research projects: The writings of Simón Bolívar and women novelists of nineteenth-century Latin America.

Recent publications:

• 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.

Hilary Owen, B.A., Ph.D. (Nottingham)

Current position: Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, University of Manchester
Current research projects: Postcolonial feminist analysis of gender identity and nationality in Novas Cartas Portuguesas and the Three Marias' campaign of 1974; Women's resistance writing in the Portuguese revolution and African colonial wars.

Recent Publications:

• 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)

Current position: Lecturer in Latin American history, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University
Research project: the portrayal of Spanish American women and the description of gender difference through the written word (works of literature, letters, diaries, the press, documents and the new constitutions) during the period 1790-1850.

Working papers:

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

Recent Publications:

• “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.
• ‘Gendering Latin American Independence: Database and Image Bank’, Hispanic Research Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, March 2006, pp. 85-93.
  

Charlotte Liddell, B.A., PhD. (Manchester)

Charlotte is studying the work of writer and educator Nisia Floresta Brasileira Augusta (1810-1885), who published in the decades following Brazil's independence in 1822.

Title of thesis:

• 'Brazil's First Feminist? Gender and Patriotism in the works of Nisia Floresta' (Successfully defended April 2006)

Iona Macintyre, B.A., M.A. (Glasgow), PhD. (Nottingham)

Current position: Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Iona is a former secretary of PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies), and a member of the Society of Latin American Studies, UK. She has conducted research in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Title of thesis:

• 'Women, Independence and Print Culture in 1820s Buenos Aires' (successfully defended April 2007)