Curriculum

After gaining her first degree in English Studies at The University of Vigo, she moved to Edinburgh and completed an MSc by Research in Translation Studies (2001) and a PhD in Hispanic Studies (2005) on the Anglo-American critical reception and translations of the Spanish authors Rosa Montero, Esther Tusquets, and Mercè Rodoreda. During the last stages of her PhD write-up, she taught at the University of Aberdeen. She took up her current post as Lecturer in Spanish at Bangor in January 2005.
Teaching
• Spanish language
• Literatures in Spain: Approaches to Galician, Basque and Catalan Contemporary Narrative
• Spanish Women Authors of the Transition
• She supervises the following PhD theses:
o David Miranda-Barreiro: The Representation of New York in Contemporary Peninsular Narrative.
o Tegau Andrews: Websites and the Translation of Minority Languages: A Case Study in the Welsh Context, an ESF-funded project.
Responsibilities
• Head of Spanish
• Examinations Officer for Spanish
• Director of the Centre for Galician Studies
Research Interests
• The interplay between critical and translational paths in cultural dissemination. Currently working on the emergence of metacritical concern in Anglo-American Hispanism.
• Translation studies.
• Gender Studies in Hispanism.
• She has been awarded the Dorothy Sherman-Severin Research Fellowship, offered by AHGBI/WISPS for early-career researchers in Luso-Hispanic Studies. The awarded research project is entitled "Cultural packaging and Galician women writers" and will look at how women-authored literature has become a prominent and profitable cultural product in the Galician literary system and the way in which it has been packaged for the purposes of strategic visibility within it.