About
- Licenciatura
en Filología hispánica (Honours Degree Spanish Language & Literature)
(1980-85). Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)
- Postgraduate
Diploma in the Teaching of the Community Languages. (1990). Royal Society of
Arts. London (UK)
- MA in
Language and Literature in Education (Modern Foreign Languages). (1991-93).
Institute of Education. University of London (UK)
- Postgraduate
Diploma in Social Anthropology. (2000-2002) Universidad de Granada (Spain)
- PhD
(2006) Universidad de Granada (Spain). Department of Social Anthropology
Research Interests
My research interests include Latin America and the
Caribbean as well as Spain and have been focusing on three main areas:
socio-cultural aspects and gender in the field of Literature and the visual
arts (TV and cinema) in Spain; socio-cultural aspects of translation; and, the
main areas covered towards my PhD. My thesis, “Arqueología del discurso de las
élites cubanas sobre raza durante el s. XX. Editoriales y artículos de
opinion”, is an interdisciplinary research that analyses the discourses on
“race” and culture, the construction of the “other” as well as the “self” in
the editorials and opinion articles of Cuban newspapers in six different
periods of the twentieth Century. It touches on issues such as language and
society, discourse, race and racism, nation and nationalism, culture and
identity; and shows the continuities and discontinuities of racial and national
discourses and identities, social representations and group relations, as well
as the linguistic strategies used on that discourse. The method used to analyse
the corpus is the Discourse Analysis.
Teaching Interests
Taught Spanish Language at the Spanish Institute (now
Cervantes Institute) for four years.
Lecturer in Spanish at Thames Valley University from 1992 to
2000.
Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London