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Two New IRCHSS Scholars in Spanish!

Congratulations to two new postgraduate research students in Spanish who have been awarded scholarships by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS).

They are Céire Broderick and Diletta Panero.

Céire’s project is entitled: “Redefining Chilean National Identity in the post-Pinochet Era and the Early Twenty-First Century through the Contemporary Novels: Ay mama Inés by Jorge Guzmán, Maldita yo entre las mujeres by Mercedes Valdivieso , Inés del alma mía by Isabel Allende and Tres nombres para Catalina: La Doña de Campofrío by Gustavo Frías”.

Diletta’s project is entitled: “Storytelling in the Work of Isabel Allende: A Female Genealogy”.

This brings to four the number of IRCHSS scholars carrying out research in the Discipline of Spanish, the others being David Conlon, who is researching contemporary Argentinean fiction, and Yolanda Reyes, studying Mexican cinema.

These students will be joined this year by another new PhD student, Ivan Kenny, who is researching Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados and Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo.

The group of Spanish PhD students also includes Eilis Gallagher, currently completing her second year of research on the crime fiction of the Cuban author Leonardo Padura Fuentes; Jennie Galvin, who is studying the Mexican narcocorrido, and Owen Harrington Fernández, who is working on the translation into Spanish of the novels of John Updike.

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