Overview
I read English language and literature at the University of Vigo (1996–2000, Premio Fin de Carreira). In 2000 I moved to Scotland to complete an MSc in Translation Studies (2000–2001; funded by a Caixa Galicia postgraduate scholarship) and a PhD in Hispanic Studies (2001–2005; funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board) at The University of Edinburgh. Following a semester as Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, I joined Â鶹Íø in January 2005 as Lecturer in Spanish and Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (2006 to present). I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013 and to a Full Professorship in 2020. In 2019 I was honoured to be admitted into the Gorsedd Cymru for my contribution to academic and public life in Wales. In 2021 I became an elected Fellow of The Learned Society of Wales.
I am a specialist on the cultures, histories, and politics of the Hispanophone world with parallel expertise in the field of Translation Studies. My work has studied the intellectual histories of nationalisms in Spain; the relationship between culture and the state; and the recent ‘rural turn’ in Spanish culture. My book Galicia, a Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics (U of Wales Press, 2013) was translated into Galician as Galiza, um povo sentimental? Género, polÃtica e cultura no imaginário nacional galego (2014) and received the 2015 Best Essay Award by the Association of Writers in Galician. I have edited the books Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence, Independence (U of Wales Press, 2024) and A Companion to Galician Studies (Tamesis, 2014) and special issues for the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Translation Studies. My articles have appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Hispanic Research Journal, the International Journal of Iberian Studies, Men and Masculinities, and The Translator. In Wales, I have published articles on Hispanic cultures and politics for the literary magazine O’r Pedwar Gwynt.
My teaching for Â鶹Íø’s BA in Modern Languages includes first-year courses on the Spanish Civil War and the history of Spanish colonialism; Spanish language and translation courses, and environmental approaches to Colombian transitional justice. I am the director of the MA in Translation Studies, where my teaching includes classes on translation and gender, translation and ethics and professional skills in the translation industry. I have supervised 11 PhD theses to completion in all disciplines of my expertise (Galician Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Translation Studies) and very much welcome proposals from prospective candidates in these areas. In 2023 I received a student-led teaching award for innovation in teaching.
Currently, I serve as Co-Lead of REF2029 preparations concerning Modern Languages and Linguistics. I am Research Integrity Lead at the School of Arts, Culture and Language.
Additional Contact Information
Position: ProfessorÌýin Hispanic Studies
Email: h.m.carballeira@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: 01248 382041 (2041 internal)
Location: Ystafell/ Room 451
Prif Adeilad y Celfyddydau | Main Arts Building
Prifysgol Â鶹Íø | Â鶹Íø
Fford y Coleg, Â鶹Íø. LL57 2DG
Teaching and Supervision
Year 1
- Hispanic Studies component of LXE1600 Transnational Cultures and LXE1700 History in Context
Year 2
- Spanish Language: Grammar Component of LZS2020 and LZS2040.
Year 4
- Adaptations in Hispanic Cinema as part of the module LXI3011 Adaptations in European Cinema
- Spanish Language: Translation and Advanced Grammar component of LZS3020/30/40
- Spanish UG Dissertation Supervisor
MA
- Programme Lead for MA in Translation Studies
- Elements of Academic Writing as part of the module LXM Research Methods
PhD Supervision
My previous PhD students include:
- Tegau Andrews (awarded 2011): ‘Websites and the Translation of Minority Languages: A Case Study in the Welsh Context’
- David Miranda-Barreiro (awarded 2012): ‘Gender, Nation and Otherness in Spanish New York Narratives’. Awarded AHGBI Best Thesis 2012.
- Adam Pearce (awarded 2014): ‘Translating the Welsh Canon: The Translations of Daniel Owen’s Novels into English’
- Maria Cristina Seccia (awarded 2014): ‘Italo-Canadian Writing and Cultural Translation: Translating Caterina Edwards’ The Lion’s Mouth into Italian’
- Jinquan Yu (awarded 2019): ‘Dylan Thomas in Chinese translation: a sociological analysis’
- Lorena López-López (awarded 2019): 'Dialogando coas marxes na narrativa malega de autorÃa feminina'
- Antigoni Bazani (awarded 2019): 'Translation and L2 Teaching: Tracing an Invisible Relationship in the Monolingual and Post-Monolingual Teaching Context'
I currently supervise or co-supervise the following PhD theses in a variety of disciplines:
- Belén Iglesias-Arbor: ‘Translating the Spanish Best-Seller: MarÃa Dueñas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Ruiz Zafón’
- Changjing Liu (as co-supervisor): ‘Chinese avant-garde fiction in translation’
- Yujuan Zhou (as co-supervisor): ‘An analysis of place in David Hawkes’ translations of The Story of the Stone’
- Chunli Shen (as co-supervisor): ‘Translating the novels of Yan Lianke into English’
Research Interests
I approach the study of present-day politics and cultures in Spain, including the cultures of Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country, as marked by enduring post-imperial tensions. Placing forms of material and symbolic violence at the core of such approach, providing nuanced national contextualisation and interrogating multiculturalist approaches to post-Francoist Spain, my work has provided novel understandings of a range of themes: the historical formation of national identity discourses (, 2013), the dynamics of competitive masculinities in nationalisms (, 2017), or the cultural representation of the legacies of violence in the Basque Country after ETA (, 2017).
My work has interrogated the canon (for example, by offering new ways of reading and teaching , and ) as well as engaging with little-studied contexts and practices (musical satire in Galicia, torture testimonials and ephemeral exhibitions in the Basque Country). Since my doctoral studies, I have remained an active researcher in the field of Translation Studies, with a particular interest in gender and non-state nations. In this area, I have published on the English translations of Catalan writer Mercé Rodoreda’s classic , have translated Galician poet MarÃa do Cebreiro into English () and have led a pioneering research project on translation in Wales, culminating in the Special Issue ‘Translation in Wales: History Theory and Approaches’ of the journal .ÌýÌý
Following from the award of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2015–2016), my current research seeks to transform understandings of national conflict in Spain by applying postcolonial theories. In particular, it innovatively engages forms of postcolonial enquiry (independence, perpetrator studies, testimonial life narratives, migrant connectivity practices, post-conflict reconciliation, para-colonial aesthetics, orientalisms) with a critique of imperial reason in late nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary Spain. I am currently preparing two publications as part of this research strand: a monograph, Contested Colonialities in the Long Spanish Twentieth-Century: Empire, Nation, Independence (under contract with Palgrave), which connects the ongoing inflections of Spain’s internal national conflict with the legacies of imperial violence inscribed in Spanish democratic modernity; and an edited volume with selected studies following from the organisation of the international conference ‘Postcolonial Spain? Contexts, Politics and Cultural Practices’ (Â鶹Íø, 2017).
I am also currently developing new research on how contemporary Galician culture has registered the disappearance of autochthonous rural life in the last three decades, combining my long-standing interests in postcolonial theory with aspects of ecocriticism, trauma and animal studies. This strand of my current research forms the basis of my graduate seminar ‘Elegies without consolation: poetics of territory and conflict in contemporary Galician Culture’, which I delivered at The Graduate Center of CUNY (2018).
Central to my approach is collaborating regularly with other researchers, cultural practitioners, politicians and social movements. Examples of recent and current collaborations include:
- Organiser and speaker, with Hywel Wiliams (MP, Plaid Cymru, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Catalonia), of the event ‘Understanding independence in contemporary Spain: notes on the Catalan referendum’, Â鶹Íø, 27 October 2017.
- Collaboration with Catalan feminist direct action group ‘Gatamaula’ for the publication of multi-authored volume (2017).
- Participation in research network (led by Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, funded by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2015–2017).
- Participation in research network ‘La experiencia de la sociedad moderna en España: Emociones, relaciones de género y subjetividades (siglos XIX y XX)’ (led by Professor Nerea Aresti, University of the Basque Country, funded by the Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, 2017–2019).
- Participation in research network ‘Unha análise da obra narrativa de RosalÃa de Castro: Fundamentos teóricos e metodolóxicos’ (led by Dr MarÃa do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, University of Santiago de Compostela, funded by the Xunta de Galicia Government, 2010–2012).
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Publications
2025
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 17 Mar 2025, Imaginarios del rural: Literatura, cine y medios en el contexto español. Enric, C., López, B. & Miguélez-Carballeira, H. (eds.). Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili , p. 75-90
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2024
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor) & Usoz de la Fuente, M. (Editor), 18 Nov 2024, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 25, 4, p. 465-475 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 1 Apr 2024, Universiy of Wales Press. (Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Apr 2024, Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence and Independence. Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (ed.). Cardiff: Universiy of Wales Press, p. 147-166
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 25, 4, p. 549-564 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2023
- Published
Jewell, R. (Guest editor), Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Guest editor) & Sams, H. (Guest editor), Apr 2023, In: Y Traethodydd. 76, 746, p. 69-78
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 4 Dec 2023, In: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Dec 2022, p. 371-384
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 4 Feb 2023, El Imperio en casa: Género, raza y nación en la España contemporánea. Andreu-Miralles, X. (ed.). Madrid: SÃlex Ediciones, p. 195-215
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Pesado, P., 22 Dec 2023, In: Clara Corbelhe. 3, p. 19-29
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2022
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 10 Dec 2022, In: O'r Pedwar Gwynt. 2022, 20, p. 27-28 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 23 May 2022, España comparada: literatura, lengua y polÃtica en la cultura contemporánea. Claesson, C. (ed.). Granada: Comares, p. 55-72
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2021
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 8 Apr 2021, 22 p. A Coruña : Luzes.
Research output: Other contribution - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & de Pablo, J., 21 Dec 2021, Clara Corbelhe, 1, p. 69-78 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
2020
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 8 Aug 2020, In: O'r Pedwar Gwynt. 13, p. 21-22
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 25 Sept 2020, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain. Marti-Lopez, E. (ed.). Routledge, p. 205-217
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2019
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Jul 2019, In: Barn. 678/679, p. 33-35
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2018
- Published
Jones, A. (Translator), Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Translator) & Costas Gonzalez, X.-H. (Editor), 2018, Vigo : Universidade De Vigo.
Research output: Other contribution - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 17 Jul 2018, The Literary Encyclopedia: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Writing and Culture, 1700 - present. Bertran, S., Fimi, D., Green, S., Grohman, A. & Wheeler, D. (eds.). The Literary Encyclopedia, Vol. 1.6.2.02.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Mar 2018, La cultura de las emociones y las emociones en la cultura española contemporánea: siglos XVIII-XXI. Delgado, L. E., Labanyi, J. & Fernandez, P. (eds.). Catedra, p. 255-271
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2017
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 30 Sept 2017, In: Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea. 39, p. 105-128
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Sept 2017, In: International Journal of Iberian Studies. 30, 3, p. 165-182
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Dec 2017, In: O'r Pedwar Gwynt. 5, p. 3-4 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Nov 2017, Approaches to Teaching the writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Versteeg, M. & Walter, S. (eds.). Modern Languages Association, p. 86-92 (Approaches to Teaching World Literature).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Dec 2017, Terra de ningú: Perspectives feministes sobre la independència. Barcelona: Pol•len Edicions, p. 131-137
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2016
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Price, A. & Kauffmann, J., 1 Mar 2016, In: Translation Studies. 9, 2, p. 125-136
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Delgado, L. E. (Editor), Fernandez, P. (Editor) & Labanyi, J. (Editor), 2016, Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History. 2015 ed. Vanderbilt University Press, p. 210-224
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2014
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2014, RosalÃa de Castro no século XXI: Unha nova ollada. Alvarez, R., Angueira, A., Rabade, M. C. & Vilavedra, D. (eds.). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 16 Oct 2014, 2014 ed. Tamesis Books.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 16 Oct 2014, A Companion to Galician Culture. 2014 ed. Tamesis Books, p. 1-12
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Nov 2014, Atraves.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 16 Oct 2014, A Companion to Galician Culture. 2014 ed. Tamesis Books, p. 175-193
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2013
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Jul 2013, University of Wales Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2012
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Oct 2012, In: Men and Masculinities. 15, 4, p. 367-387
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 2012, In: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 13, 2, p. 189-203
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 2012, Canon y subversión: La obra narrativa de RosalÃa de Castro. Gonzalez-Fernandez, H. & Rabade Villar, M. D. C. (eds.). Icaria, p. 121-138
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2010
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2010, I am not from here. Maria do Cebreiro. 2010 ed. Shearsman, p. 7-14
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Palacios, M. (Editor) & Xesús Nogueira, M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, Creation: Publishing and Criticism: The Advance of Women’s Writing.. 2010 ed. Peter Lang, p. 119-132
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2009
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Apr 2009, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 86, 2, p. 271-292
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Hooper, K., 1 Apr 2009, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 86, 2, p. 201-212
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2008
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2008, In: Anuario de Estudios Galegos. 2006, p. 72-87
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2008, Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish: Portuguese and Latin American Studies.. Davies, A., Kumaraswami, P. & Williams, C. (eds.). 2008 ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 8-24
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2007
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Sept 2007, In: Hispanic Research Journal. 8, 4, p. 365-380
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 2007, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 84, 2, p. 161-178
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2005
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2005, In: New Voices in Translation Studies. 1, p. 43-55
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2003
- Published
Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2003, In: The Translator. 9, p. 101-124
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
2025
Invited keynote talk at the International seminar “Cânone e periferias / Cà non i perifèries / Canon y periferiasâ€, held at the University of Lisbon between 6-7 of March, 2025. This is part of the project ESCORE, “Escritores, comunidad y reconocimiento en las literaturas periféricas peninsulares, 1972-2022†(PID2021-127226NB-I00), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
6 Mar 2025
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2024
Interview with the author held as public event in Santiago de Compostela's art-house cinema and bookshop, Numax.
19 Jul 2024
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3 Jul 2024
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Academic Dialogues on Iberian Inter-Literary Relations
18 May 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)
2023
A presentation on current research project at the Instituto Pensar (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia).
8 Nov 2023
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)7 Oct 2023
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6 Oct 2023
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Keynote delivered at one-day symposium on cultural representations of new rural mobilities in Galicia.
The talk analyzed the emergence of rural themes in literary, film, and media fields. It focused on the reading of two highly successful cultural products associated with this rural boom: the film As bestas (2022) by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and the novel Nobody Remains (2022) by Brais Lamela, arguing that they offer two opposing views on the dispossession processes that contemporary Galician rural society has been forced to.
22 Sep 2023
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15 May 2023
Activity: Examination (Examiner)Keynote delivered at two-day symposium on representations of the rural in contemporary Spain.
11 Apr 2023 – 12 Apr 2023
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2022
A multidisciplinary panel bringing together humanities and social sciences researchers to discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise from their collaboration with Indigenous communities and researchers outside the UK.
10 Nov 2022
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Member of Organising Committee, Chair and Participant at First Study Day of the Galician critical studies collective Espaço Clara Corbelhe.
10 Sep 2022
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Participant researcher in international research network: 'RURALIM: New Imaginaries of Rurality in Contemporary Spain: Culture, Documentary Film, Journalism' (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain).
1 Sep 2022 – 1 Sep 2024
Activity: Membership of network (Member)Participant researcher in international research network 'The inscription of memory in the public space: strategies of institutional consumption of the literary past (1837-1978)' (University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain).
1 Sep 2022 – 1 Sep 2024
Activity: Membership of network (Member)Guest speaker at Study Group on Decolonial studies, Fundación LuÃs Seoane (A Coruña, Galiza, Spain).
17 Jun 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)A round-table discussion on anticolonial approaches to self-determination movements in Spain, held at Barcelona's radical Book Fair 'La Literal'.
21 May 2022
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An invited talk delivered to students of Hispanic Studies at the University of Antwerp.
29 Apr 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)Co-organiser of a one-day international conference funded by the Institute of Modern Languages Research Regional Conference Grant.
1 Apr 2022
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)External Examiner to a PhD thesis submitted to the Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies of the University of Santiago de Compostela.
14 Jan 2022
Activity: Examination (Examiner)
2021
Founding Editor and Member of Editorial Committee of magazine "Clara Corbelhe", specialised on Galician critical thought.
20 Dec 2021 →
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Invited contribution to round table
24 Nov 2021
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Interviewed as expert about representations of Galician rural identities (published in Galician daily La Voz de Galicia)
28 Oct 2021
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6 Oct 2021
Activity: Examination (Examiner)The talk accompanied the act of donation of a copy of 'Platero a minnau' to the museum.
14 Jul 2021
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Invited to be a member of the adjudicators panel for a national essay award in Galicia.
12 Jul 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Advisor)25 Jun 2021
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)Keynote delivered at the 2021 Hermes Summer School of Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Santiago de Compostela
24 Jun 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)23 Jun 2021
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IV Escuela descolonial / Jornadas IberLAB Poscolonialismo y humanidades: Perspectivas para/desde el sur de Europa
28 May 2021
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Seminario de Investigación Poéticas de lo Inquietante
23 Apr 2021 →
Activity: Membership of network (Member)A talk delivered at the high school Pazo da Mercé (Galicia, Spain) as part of the 2021 Day of RosalÃa de Castro.
4 Mar 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)A live online streaming event via Twitch about the Galician poet RosalÃa de Castro on the day of her birth anniversary. The event was co-organised by the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (Â鶹Íø), the Centre for Galician Studies at the Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal) and the Centre for Galician Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona.
24 Feb 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)An article in the Galician daily La Opinión, on the subject of what uses to give the Pazo de Meirás, once the manor house of Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, then Francisco Franco's, and currently returned to public use.
26 Jan 2021
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2020
An interview in the Galician historical magazine Mazarelos to mark the third edition of the Galician translation of monograph Galicia, a Sentimental Nation.
17 Dec 2020
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A round discussion about Galician intellectual Ricardo Carvalho Calero
12 Oct 2020
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Invited Chair of Online event in Iberian Studies
24 Sep 2020
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An article on the online Portal Galego da LÃngua on the figure commemorated in the 2020 Day of Galician Letters.
26 May 2020
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28 Feb 2020
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
2019
A public talk on the history of Galician national identity discourses and their implications for feminism and pro-independence movements.
20 Dec 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)Interviewed on BBC Radio Cymru programme "Dros Ginio" as commentator on Spanish General Elections of 10 November
11 Nov 2019
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Presenter at Book Launch: Angharad Price's La vida de la Rebecca Jones (Catalan translation of her novel O! Tyn y Gorchudd).
1 Nov 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)Interviewd on Programm Dan yr Wyned gyda Dylan Iorwerth about protests in Catalonia after the publication of the prison sentence for pro-independence politicians
30 Oct 2019
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Interviewed about role as Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales and about having been accepted into the Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain
16 Jul 2019
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28 Jun 2019
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Invited research talk delivered at the international symposium "Pluriliterary Spain", held at the University of Lund, 7-8 June 2019.
7 Jun 2019
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Invited presentation, delivered at International Conference "Mobilizing Affect: Populism and the Future of Democratic politics in Spain"
23 Feb 2019
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2018
Interviewed by BBC Radio Wales on Spanish perspective on Brexit exit deal with regard to Gibraltar
24 Nov 2018
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Invited talk at the International Symposium "Performing Otherness: a Postcolonial Approach to Francoist Spain"
26 Oct 2018
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)External PhD Assessor, European Doctorate
10 Oct 2018
Activity: Examination (Examiner)Appointment as Undergraduate External Examiner for the BA in Hispanic Studies, The University of Edinburgh.
1 Aug 2018 – 30 Nov 2020
Activity: Examination (Examiner)Invited keynote at Observatory of New Galician Diaspora (ONDA), Santiago de Compostela (Galicia)
20 Jul 2018
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Invited to deliver research seminar at Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal, Spain and the Americas (CEPSAM) at Swansea University
6 Jun 2018
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)Invited seminar delivered to doctoral students at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Princeton University)
13 Mar 2018
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Invited to deliver a week-long research graduate course at The Graduate Center (City University of New York), as part of the Xunta de Galicia Cátedra of Galician Studies.
5 Mar 2018 – 9 Mar 2018
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2017
Invited speaker at public event in Edinburgh's Summerhall on the subject of cultural and political conflict in small nations. I delivered a talk on the Catalan referendum of self-determination of October 2017.
7 Dec 2017
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Postcolonial Spain? Contexts, Politics, Cultural Practices
1 Dec 2017 – 2 Dec 2017
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I was invited to be a member of the adjudicators panel for a national essay award in Galicia. In this capacity, I was sent 16 essay manuscripts and attended a meeting of the panel.
29 Nov 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Advisor)I was invited as the author of the monograph Galicia, A Sentimental Nation, to participate in one of the conference's round tables, on the subject of gender, feminism and institutions.
24 Nov 2017
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I was contacted directly by BBC World Services to speak at its World Update programme, on the day when the president of the Catalan Parliament was summoned by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice.
9 Nov 2017
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Interviewed by BBC Wales to provide live analysis on possible declaration of independence on Catalonia (27 October). The public event I organised at Â鶹Íø was publicised
27 Oct 2017
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Organisation of public event at Â鶹Íø on the Catalan independence process. The event included a talk by Hywel Williams (MP) and myself.
27 Oct 2017
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Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)I was interviewed to give live analysis on the Catalan independence process
26 Oct 2017
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Interviewed as expert in Spanish politics and national conflict on BBC Radio Wales. My research and forthcoming book "Contested Colonialities" was mentioned. Also the event I organised on Catalonia at Â鶹Íø (27 October) was publicised.
22 Oct 2017
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Participant in International Research Network 'La experiencia de la sociedad moderna en España: Emociones, relaciones de género y subjetividades (siglos XIX y XX)'
1 Sep 2017 – 1 Sep 2019
Activity: Membership of network (Chair)Invited talk at the II WORKSHOP NARRATING THE CRISIS: NEW DISCURSIVE PARADIGMS IN SPANISH CULTURAL PRODUCTION, held at Aston University
21 Feb 2017
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Appointment as External Examiner for MSc in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh.
2017 – 2020
Activity: Examination (Examiner)
2016
Invited to deliver one of the keynote talks at the XVII Forum for Iberian Studies, Oxford university
30 Sep 2016
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Keynote/plenary speaker)Extended interview published in the Catalan political and cultural affairs magazine Nationalia, to talk about research findings related to project "Towards a Postcolonial Spain"
20 Jun 2016
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10 May 2016
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Interview by Catalan online daily El Mon to talk about findings related to project "Towards a Postcolonial Spain"
25 Mar 2016
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20 Feb 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)
2015
Research paper delivered at the 61st Annual Anglo-Catalan Conference
14 Nov 2015
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Research seminar delivered by invitation at the University of Warwick's Department of Hispanic Studies.
29 Oct 2015
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Article in The Conversation on the history of Spain's national day
12 Oct 2015
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I was invited as keynote speaker at a Round Table on the state of the discipline of international Galician Studies, held at the XI Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies, in Buenos Aires.
8 Apr 2015
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)‘O imaxinario do consenso en Galicia: sentimentalismo, parodia e Os da RÃa’, XI Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies, University of Buenos Aires.
7 Apr 2015
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)16 Mar 2015
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Participant of Research Network 'Contested Identities: Cultural Dialogues between Small Nations'
1 Jan 2015 – 30 Dec 2017
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2014
Interview in Galician online daily Praza Pública about the argument of my book, Galicia, a Sentimental Nation.
30 Dec 2014
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Invited as keynote speaker at two-day conference organised by Prof. Nerea Aresti (University of the Basque Country) on gender approaches to historiography
30 May 2014
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2013
Extensive interview broadcast on Galician online TV channel, Galiza Ano Cero, about the arguments of my book Galicia, a Sentimental Nation.
20 Dec 2013
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2012
26 Oct 2012
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International Conference held as main event in AHRC-funded project.
10 Sep 2012 – 11 Sep 2012
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)This is a second article published in El PaÃs, Galicia on a feminist critique of Galician literary historian Ricardo Carvalho Calero, published as a response to reactions to my previous article, 'O outro tabú sobre Carvalho Calero', 16 March 2012.
30 Mar 2012
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Article published in El PaÃs, Galicia, with first directions for a feminist critique of Galician literary historian Ricardo Carvalho Calero.
16 Mar 2012
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2011
1 Apr 2011
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Projects
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01/11/2021 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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01/04/2019 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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01/10/2015 – 18/11/2016 (Finished)
Description
‘Postcolonial Spain’ aims to be the first academic event to map postcolonial/decolonial theories onto Hispanic peninsular studies, aiming to diversify radically how the discipline thinks about the interconnected legacies of colonialism, empire, nationalisms, emigration, ethnicity and conflict in contemporary Spain. As the fissures of the Spanish post-1978 territorial consensus widen, this event is intended as a key intervention in the discipline of Spanish peninsular studies and into how it has ‘theorised away’ Spain’s internal national conflicts, their associated discourses and cultural manifestations and the ways in which these remain entangled with enduring forms of post-imperial reason.
Chief among the conference’s aims is to articulate for the discipline of Hispanic (peninsular) studies a new way of thinking about ongoing processes of transnational/national/regional transformation, including independence processes, with a view to re-interrogating questions of democraticity in contemporary Spain and challenging predominant nationalist paradigms. The conference also seeks to engage cultural studies scholarship with pressing socio-political processes developing in contemporary Spain, such as the Catalan process of independence, post-conflict resolution in the Basque Country and the politics of border and immigration control, all of which can be illuminated by postcolonial/decolonial forms of enquiry.
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01/08/2013 – 21/08/2014 (Finished)
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14/02/2012 – 16/04/2013 (Finished)
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01/09/2009 – 31/08/2012 (Finished)
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Other Grants and Projects
- The Translations of T. Ifor Rees: Approaching Welsh-Hispanic Cultural Relations in the 2th-Century (MEITS University of Cambridge/AHRC Open World Research Initiative, 2019-2020).
- Towards a Postcolonial Spain: History, Political Cultures and Material Realities (British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 2015-2016)
- Gender and Nation in Galicia: A Cultural History (AHRC Research Fellowship, 2012-2013)
- Translation in Non-States Cultures: perspectives from Wales (AHRC "Translating Cultures" Research Network, 2012)
- Centre for Galician Studies - Partnership Agreement for the Teaching and Promotion of the Galician Language, Literature and Culture (2006-present).