Dr Elvira Anton Carrillo

Academic Qualifications

- 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

Teaching

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

Publications

• Arqueología del discurso de las élites cubanas sobre raza durante el siglo XX. Editoriales y artículos de opinión. (PhD thesis) Universidad de Granada. 2006. (Electronic format)

• 'Gendered images: representations of masculinity and femininity in Spanish television advertising' in Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies Jordan, B. & Morgan-Tamosunas, R. (eds.). Arnold Publishers. London. 2000.

• 'Los Cabildos de Nación en Cuba' in the exhibition catalogue El final de un imperio University of Oviedo. Spain. 1999.

• 'Tres escritores del fin de siglo español' Revolución y Cultura No. 1, 1996. La Habana. Cuba.
REVIEWS

• Pleasure Island. Tourism and Temptation in Cuba By Rosalie Schwartz, in TESSERAE Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol.7, No. 1, 2001.

- Translation of the exhibition catalogue La esencia de Eva o el universo de lo femenino, Consejería de Cultura y Educación de Valencia (Spain). 2000

Conferences and Seminars

• 'Sommet des Femmes del Mediterranée et d’Europe : Les Femmes et la Paix' (Marrakesh- Morocco. 27-29 May 1994) Funded by the UE and Morocco government. Participant/ contributor

• 'Mujeres por la paz en oriente Medio' (Vitoria-Gastez. Spain 25-29 June 1994). Funded by the UE, the Basque local Government. Organiser and international co-ordinator.

• 'Tourism in Cuba. Cultural Issues' (Institute Haaga. Helsinki. Finland. September 1997). Seminar.

• 'Asociaciones de negros en la Cuba colonial' (University of Granada. May 1998). Seminar. Speaker.

• 'Religiones afrocubanas y su influencia en las artes' (University of Granada. 1999). Seminar. Speaker.

• Specialised translation course: Marketing and publicity. (University of Granada, 11-20 March 2000). Course organised by the Universities of Granada, Thames Valley, and Cologne. Series of seminars and workshops.

• 'Representaciones de masculinidad y feminidad en el cine español' (University of Burgos. Spain. May 2000). Seminar. Speaker.

• 'Cuba, race and nation: identity and discourse in the editorials of the Diario de la Marina (1902-1959)'. SLAS 2006. Nottingham University. Paper.

• 'Cuba, raza y nación en el siglo XX. Susurros y silencios en el discurso de las élites cubanas. Un análisis desde los editoriales de la prensa' 52nd International Congress of Americanists. (Sevilla 17-21- julio 2006). Paper

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.