News & Forthcoming Events
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
- London World Film Festival 2013
- Translating 'Live' Poetry
- Gained in Translation
- Dr Deborah Martin will introduce El último verano de la boyita at ISA's 'Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue' Series
- Graduate student, Kathleen Sparks awarded grant
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture
- LECTURE: Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University), 6 June 2012 at 11am
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Professor Stephen Hart's Documentary Summer School in Cuba
- Dr Jo Evans will introduce Mexican film, Miss Bala, at the Cineschool festival 2012
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Jo Evans will discuss Pan's Labyrinth at the European Institute Film Day
- César Vallejo conference. 16-17 March 2012
- Final year student, Roberta Radu's prize-winning article
- Dept of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL nominated for award
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted in Guardian competition
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcala Galiano Memorial Lecture
- Alumni Events
Dr Claire Lindsay
Claire Lindsay (MA, PhD) is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture. Before joining UCL in 2006, she taught at the universities of Aberdeen and Stirling and at Goldsmiths’, University of London. She teaches undergraduate courses on Latin American women writers, Latin American cinema and, at MA level, on the Mexico-US border. She also teaches an Advanced ELCS module called Writing Shame.
Her research interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture, Latin American cinema, comparative literature, and travel writing.
She is the author of Locating Latin American Women Writers (Lang, 2003) and Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America (Routledge, 2010). She is co-editor of special journal issues on travel and its narratives in Spain and Spanish America of Studies in Travel Writing (2003) and Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (2006) and she recently edited a book of essays called Traslados/Translations: Essays on Latin America in Honour of Jason Wilson (Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2012). She has published widely on gender and writing in Spanish America, especially in the context of Colombia, as well as on travel (on, among other subjects, the work of Bruce Chatwin and Frances Calderón de la Barca).
She is currently working on two projects. The first, funded by the British Academy and a Harry Ransom Research Fellowship, is a study of travel magazines in Mexico (1955-71). This project is concerned with the ways in which illustrated magazines functioned to sustain and/or disrupt the 'tourist gaze' through word and image during that period of rapid modernization in Mexico. The second project is an enquiry into articulations of shame in Argentine culture and literature.
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email: claire.lindsay@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 207 679 2757 (internal x32757)
Fax: +44 207 679 2297
