Staff

Dr Kate Quinn

Co-ordinator of BA with Latin American Studies
Co-ordinator of BA Second Year Spanish

BA (Queens University Belfast, 1992)
PhD (Queens University Belfast, 1997)

Room AM332
091-492702 
kate.quinnnuigalway.ie

Profile

I am Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies where I teach a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, in addition to directing the work of doctoral students.

Teaching

SH117 Introduction to Latin American Culture
SH119 Representations of Latin America
SH107 Introduction to the Spanish-speaking World: Latin America
SH227 Ex-Beginners’ Language
SH228 Spanish Language II:C
SH232 Hispanic Literature and Culture I: Latin American Literature and Culture
SH233 Hispanic Literature and Culture II: Modern Spanish Theatre
SH235 Latin American History and Society
SH236 Cultural Debates in Latin America
SH336 Hispanic Literature and Culture III: Golden Age Spain
SH320 Hispanic Crime Narrative
SH563 Advanced Language Skills Spanish II: Temas Hispánicos
SH530 Latin American Literature I
MC501 Contemporary Literary Genres

Research Interests

My principal area of research is Latin American and Spanish crime fiction and I am one of the founder members of an Irish Academic Research Group in this area, and as a group we have organised a series of four interdisciplinary conferences on the Crime Genre held at NUIG, UL, UCC and QUB, with the next conference due to be held at NUIG again in 2013.

Project/Activities

I am committed to the further development of the Irish Crime Fiction Research Group, and the organisation of the fifth conference in our interdisciplinary series in 2013.

Selected Publications

Editor (with Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, UL) of Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009)

’Cases of Identity Concealed and Revealed in Chilean Crime Fiction’, in Investigating Identities.

’Detection, Dictatorship and Democracy: Santiago de Chile in Ramón Díaz Eterovic’s Heredia Series’, Romance Studies, Vol. 25 (2), April 2007, 147-55.

’Private Detectives, Private Lives: The Detective Fiction of Sergio Gómez and Marcela Serrano’ in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction, edited by Renée Craig-Odders, Jacky Collins and Glen S. Close (McFarland, 2006), pp. 162-79.

’Chilean Writers and neopolicial latinoamericano’ in Latin American Detective Fiction: New Readings, edited by Shelley Godsland and Jacky Collins (Manchester Metropolitan University Press, 2004), pp. 52-67.

Supervision of Research

I am currently supervising the work of three doctoral students who are working on Argentine authors Rodolfo Walsh and Ricardo Piglia, Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes’s crime fiction, and Chilean Historical Fiction.

I have also supervised a wide range of taught MA dissertations in both Spanish and Latin American Studies and, more recently on the MA in Contemporary International Media and Text, on topics ranging from Chilean Crime Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Horacio Quiroga and Postcolonialism, Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.

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