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Dr Lorraine Kelly

Lecturer in Spanish
Vice-Dean (First Year) College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies 
Co-ordinator of Year Abroad

B.A. (UL) , M.A. (UCC), PhD. (UCC), H. Cert. in Learning and Teaching (DIT)

Room AM338
091-495927
lorraine.kellynuigalway.ie

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Profile

I am a lecturer in Latin American Studies, with a particular interest in the work of Latin American Women Writers. I am particularly interested in modes of gendered critical analysis of film and literature and the majority of my work to date has focused on Mexico. I am also leading the ’Gender, Discourse, Identities’ Research Cluster within the Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society.

In addition to this I am Vice-Dean for the First Year Experience for the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies.

Teaching

SH119 Representations of Latin America
SH235 Latin American History and Society
SH232 Hispanic Literature and Culture I: Spanish American Short Story
SH228 Spanish Language II: C
SH337 Hispanic Literature and Culture IV: Contemporary Latin American Studies
SH530 Latin American Literature I (MA)
EN597 Approaches to the Study of Colonialism
MA and PhD Supervision

Research Interests

• Mexican Women Writers
• Mexican Literature and Cinema
• Gender and Cultural Production
• Gender Politics in Latin American Literature
• Representations of the Mexican Revolution
• Student Transition into and within the University

Project/Activities

Leading the ’Gender, Discourse, Identities’ Research Cluster within the Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society

Currently editing a volume of essays based on papers delivered at the ALAI conference Interpreting Independence in Latin America, held at NUI Galway in June 2010.

Selected Publications

Richardson, Bill & Kelly, Lorraine (eds.), Power, place and representation: contested sites of dependence and independence in Latin America (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas), Peter Lang, 2012.

(Forthcoming) ’Rejection, Abandonment and Division of Labour in Brianda Domecq’s The Astonishing Story of the Saint of Cabora’ in Precarious Parenthood: “Doing Family” in Literature and Film, T. Pusse and K. Walter (eds.) (Berlin and London: LIT, 2011).

’“La pieza desquiciante de la jerarquía”: Reading the Work of Brianda Domecq as a Philosophy of Feminism’ in The Boom Femenino: Reading Contemporary Mexican Women’s Writing, N. Finnegan and J. Lavery (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing, 2010).

’Women Writing in Contemporary Mexico: The Case of Brianda Domecq’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 14.2 (2008), pp. 101-108.

’The Resignification of Power in Contemporary Mexican Fiction’, Reading Spanish and Latin American Literatures: New directions in Research, N. Finnegan and M. Vega (eds.) (Cork: Dept. of Hispanic Studies, UCC, 2005), pp. 24-36.

Conference Papers

’Gender, Nation and the National Hero:  Grancesco Taoada Tabone’s Los últimos Zapatistas: heroes olvidados’ , Gender, Nation, Text, May 10^th – 11^th, 2011.

’La mujer y la construcción nacionalista  en el cine  mexicano’, VI Congreso del CEISAL: Indepencencias – dependencies – interdependencies, Université de Toulouse, July 30^th to June 3^rd, 2010.

’“La pieza desquiciante de la jerarquía”: A Literary Interrogation of the Work of Brianda Domecq’, ’The Boom Femenino in Mexico: Reading Contemporary Mexican Women’s Writing’, UCC, Jan 18^th-19^th 2008.

’Chicano Readings of a Mexican Past: The Case of Teresa Urrea’, In/Difference: Current and Historical Perspectives on Cultures in Contact, (Royal Irish Academy Committee for Modern Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies), UL, Nov 9^th-10^th 2007.

’The Limits of Resignification in the Writing of Mexican Author Brianda Domecq’, WISPS: Twentieth Century Girls, University of London, Oct 14^th-15^th 2005.

’Female-Authored Literature in Contemporary Mexico’, 9th Annual Symposium on Contemporary Narrative dedicated to: Latin American Women Writers, Then and Now, University of Leeds, July 1^st 2005.

’Once días… y algo más: Resisting the Stockholm Syndrome’, Irish Latin American Studies Annual Conference, UCC, June 18^th 2005.

’The Resignification of Power in Contemporary Mexican Fiction’, Hispanic Studies Postgraduate Research Symposium, UCC, Ireland. Nov. 18^th-19^th 2004.

’Rewriting Foundational Myths: Brianda Domecq’, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Postgraduate Conference, Cambridge, April 2003.

Conference Organisation

’Gender, Nation, Text’, Gender ARC Symposium, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, May 10-11, 2011 (Co-organised with Dr Maria Scott)

Association of Latin Americanists in Ireland Conference, 2010: ’Interpreting Independence in Latin America’, NUI Galway, June 4-5, 2010

Assisted in organisation of Association of Irish Latin American Studies Annual Conference, UCC, June 18^th 2005

Assisted in organisation of Hispanic Studies Postgraduate Research Symposium, UCC, Nov. 18^th-19^th 2004

Supervision of Research

I am interested in supervising research on the area of gender and cultural production in Latin America, and Mexico in particular. I am currently supervising three PhD thesis on the areas of gender in Mexican Cinema, Gender, Violence and the Narcocorrido, Female Genealogies in the work of Isabel Allende.

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