Dr David Miranda-Barreiro

I am a Lecturer in and Head of Hispanic Studies.  My main research focuses on literary and filmic accounts of Spanish and Galician travel, migration and exile in the US (especially in New York City). I am also working on graphic biographies of Galician intellectuals. In 2014, I published the monograph Spanish New York Narratives 1898–1936: Modernisation, Otherness and Nation with Legenda. I also co-translated an anthology by Welsh poet Ifor ap Glyn into Galician, published in the Galician poetry magazine Dorna (2014). I am co-editor of Galicia 21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies.

I graduated with a BA in Filología Hispánica (Hispanic Studies) from the University of A Coruña and arrived in Bangor in 2005, where I completed a MA in European Studies and a PhD in Hispanic Studies.  My PhD thesis, which analysed the presence of New York in early twentieth-century Spanish narrative, was awarded the first Publication Prize for the most distinguished thesis in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies given by the AHGBI (Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland) in 2012.

I teach a wide range of modules on Hispanic Culture (both literature and cinema) and Spanish Language:

• LZS-1001 Spanish for Advanced Students
• LZS-1003 Spanish for Beginners/Intermediate 1
• LZS-1004 Spanish for Beginners/Intermediate 2
• LXS-2033 Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Year 2)
• LZG-2032 3 Language Project
• LXS-3034 Spain through its Writers (Year 4)
• LXE-3200 Press Dossier (Year 4)
• Spanish Single Hons Dissertation
• Spanish Joint Hons Dissertation

Postgraduate

I teach on the MA in European Languages and Cultures, and offer the specialist module on Spanish culture LXM-4036: Monsters of Spain.

I have also taught LXM-4024: Working on a Translation Portfolio as part of the MA in Translation Studies.

I will be interested in supervising doctoral students working on Spanish and Galician Studies, especially on topics such as: national/transnational identities, travel writing and narratives of mobility, popular culture and comic books.

I am supervisor for the following PhD thesis:

First supervisor:

•  Sara Borda-Green: Representations of Patagonia in Welsh Culture      

Second supervisor

• Lorena López: Galician Women-Authored Narrative and the Canon
• Belén Iglesias-Arbor: Translating the Spanish Bestseller
• Gareth White: Italian Migrants in Wales
• Elena Castillo-Ramírez: Spanish Blockbusters

Administrative Responsibilities

• Undergraduate Course Director for Hispanic Studies
• Welcome Week Organiser
• Dissertations Coordinator for Modern Languages

Teaching Qualifications

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016.
• Qualified Teacher Status, General Council of Wales, 2010.
• Curso de Aptitud Pedagógica (Spanish PGCE-equivalent), University of A Coruña (Spain), 2003.

My main research interests revolve around issues of mobility (travel writing, migration, exile) and how they are represented in both literature and cinema. I have worked mostly on the relations between Spain and the US (with a specific focus on New York City). After publishing a monograph on literary representations of New York in early twentieth century Spanish narrative, my current research project focuses on the connections between Galicia and New York.

I am also studying comic books and graphic novels, especially graphic biographies of Galician intellectuals (Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Alexandre Bóveda, Vicente Risco, Uxío Novoneyra and Lois Pereiro amongst others).

I write regularly about my research on Twitter (@DavidMirandeiro) and on my research blog: https://davidmirandabarreiro.wordpress.com/

Awards and Grants

• AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Postgraduate Prize Publication prize to the most distinguished doctoral thesis in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies (2012).
• Santander Mobility Grant (2009-2010).

Conference Organisation

• Comics and Nation (Co-organiser with Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland and Dr Guillem Colom-Montero), Bangor University (2017).
• Travel Writing and Narratives of Mobility in Contemporary Iberian Literature (Co-organiser with Dr Martín Veiga and Dr Sergi Mainer), University College Cork (2013).
• X Congreso Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos (Member of the Organising Committee), Cardiff University (2012).

Academic Affiliations

• Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos.
• Asociación de Estudios sobre Discurso y Sociedad, EDiSo.
• Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Literatura Hispánica (2010-2011).
• Guest member at the Pan-European Seminars ‘Urbes Europeae’ organized by Christian-Albrechts University (Kiel) in 2007, and Université de Paris 8 in 2008.

2019

• Invoking the Past in Graphic Biographies: The Life, Death and Ghostly Return of Alexandre Bóveda
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2019, 'Invoking the Past in Graphic Biographies: The Life, Death and Ghostly Return of Alexandre Bóveda', Studies in Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 27-48. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic.10.1.27_1
• Black Problems for White Travellers:The Representation of African Americans in Early Francoist New York Travel Narratives
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2019, Black Problems for White Travellers:The Representation of African Americans in Early Francoist New York Travel Narratives. in Black USA and Spain : Shared Memories in 20th Century Spain. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Routledge.

2018

• From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2018, 'From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth: Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography', European Comic Art, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 66-86. https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2018.110105
• Remaping Galician Studies in a Post-Nacional Context
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2018, 'Remaping Galician Studies in a Post-Nacional Context: Review of Peripheral Visions/Global Sounds by José Colmeiro', Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal, no. 7, pp. 227-230.
• Rerouting Galician Studies. Multidisciplinary Interventions
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2018, 'Rerouting Galician Studies. Multidisciplinary Interventions', Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies, no. H, pp. 129-132.
• ‘Cando chegamos ô Unai Estei’ (When We Arrived in the USA)
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2018, ‘Cando chegamos ô Unai Estei’ (When We Arrived in the USA): Literary Representations of Galician Migration to New York in the First Half of the 20th Century. in R DePalma & A Perez-Carames (eds), Galician Migrations: A Case Study of Emerging Super-Diversity. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol. 3, Springer, pp. 27-38.

2017

• Santiago García (trans. Bruce Campbell), On the Graphic Novel
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2017, 'Santiago García (trans. Bruce Campbell), On the Graphic Novel', European Comic Art, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 103-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2017.100207
• Authors, Characters and Comic Books
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2017, 'Authors, Characters and Comic Books: Galician Intellectuals in the Panel' Paper presented at Comics and Nation, Bangor University, 2017, 13/07/17, .
• Little Spain or Little Galicia?
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2017, 'Little Spain or Little Galicia? Cinematic Representations of Galician Emigration to the USA' Paper presented at Identities In Transition: Cultural Representations of the Galician Diaspora, University of St Andrews, 2017, 16/06/17, .
• “Cando chegamos ô Unai Estei“ (Cuando llegamos a los Estados Unidos): representaciones literarias de la emigración gallega a Nueva York en la primera mitad del Siglo XX
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2017, '“Cando chegamos ô Unai Estei“ (Cuando llegamos a los Estados Unidos): representaciones literarias de la emigración gallega a Nueva York en la primera mitad del Siglo XX' Paper presented at III Simposio Internacional EDISO, Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), 2017, 28/06/17, .
• New York en Galicia: resultados dunha investigación de campo
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2017, 'New York en Galicia: resultados dunha investigación de campo' Paper presented at AHGBI Conference, Cardiff University, 2017, 10/04/17, .
• A Galician Werewolf in New York
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2017, 'A Galician Werewolf in New York: Migration and Transgressive Femininity in Claudio Rodríguez Fer’s ‘A muller loba’', Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies, vol. 21, no. G, pp. 39-57.

2015

• Everything Stays the Same: Julio Camba Travelling Spain
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2015, 'Everything Stays the Same: Julio Camba Travelling Spain' Paper presented at ‘Minority’ Cultures and Travel, Aberystwyth, 2015, 16/09/15, .
• Glocal Spaces, Translocated Cultures
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2015, 'Glocal Spaces, Translocated Cultures: Bringing Galicia to New York' Paper presented at AHGBI Conference, University of Exeter, 2015, 13/04/15, .

2014

• Contemporary Galician Culture in a Global Context. Movable Identities by Eugenia R. Romero (review)
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2014, 'Contemporary Galician Culture in a Global Context. Movable Identities by Eugenia R. Romero (review)', Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 669-671. https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2014.0055
• Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies. Between the Local and the Global ed. by Kirsty Hooper and Manuel Puga Moruxa (review)
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2014, 'Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies. Between the Local and the Global ed. by Kirsty Hooper and Manuel Puga Moruxa (review)', Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 234-236. https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2014.0023
• Spanish New York Narratives 1898–1936
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2014, Spanish New York Narratives 1898–1936: Modernization, Otherness and Nation. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, no. 5, Legenda, London.

2013

• Primitivist Modernism and Imperialist Colonialism
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2013, 'Primitivist Modernism and Imperialist Colonialism: The View of African Americans in José Moreno Villa’s Pruebas de Nueva York and Julio Camba’s La ciudad automática', Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 52-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2013.841049
• Daniel Rodríguez Castelao: From Author to Comic Book Character
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2013, 'Daniel Rodríguez Castelao: From Author to Comic Book Character' Paper presented at International Comics and Bande Dessinée Joint Conference, Glasgow University, 2013, 26/06/13, .
• Extramunde
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2013, 'Extramunde: a narrativa da viaxe e o paradoxo da alteridade', Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies, vol. 2013, no. E, pp. 57-75.
• Translocated Spaces and Mobile Identities in Cara a Times Square by Camilo Gonsar
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2013, 'Translocated Spaces and Mobile Identities in Cara a Times Square by Camilo Gonsar' Paper presented at Travel Writing and Narratives of Mobility in Contemporary Iberian Literature, University College Cork, 2013, 28/06/13, .

2012

• A muller loba: licantropía e emigración galega en Nova York
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2012, 'A muller loba: licantropía e emigración galega en Nova York' Paper presented at X Congreso Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos, Cardiff University, 2012, 12/09/12, .
• Racialism versus Multiculturalism: the Challenge to Ethnic Nationalism in José Moreno Villa’s Pruebas de Nueva York (1927) and Julio Camba’s La ciudad automática (1932)
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2012, 'Racialism versus Multiculturalism: the Challenge to Ethnic Nationalism in José Moreno Villa’s Pruebas de Nueva York (1927) and Julio Camba’s La ciudad automática (1932)' Paper presented at XV Forum for Iberian Studies: National Identities at the Intersection: Literature and Visual Media, Oxford University, 2012, 20/06/12, .
• Ratas en Manhattan: entre la disolución y la afirmación de la identidad gallega en la diáspora neoyorquina
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2012, 'Ratas en Manhattan: entre la disolución y la afirmación de la identidad gallega en la diáspora neoyorquina' Paper presented at AHGBI Conference, University of Stirling, 2012, 2/04/12, .
• ‘Spain, Gender and New Yorkers in Anticípolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza’
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2012, '‘Spain, Gender and New Yorkers in Anticípolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza’' Paper presented at WISPS Conference: Revisiting Gender and Nation in Hispanic and Lusophone studies: New Debates and Directions, Bangor University, 2012, 23/11/12, .

2011

• Challenging the Foundations of Spanish National Identity: Spaniards Become New Yorkers in Anticípolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2011, 'Challenging the Foundations of Spanish National Identity: Spaniards Become New Yorkers in Anticípolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza' Paper presented at Within and Without: Representing Diasporas in Europe, Cardiff University, 2011. , 13/05/11, .
• Nueva York como reflejo de dos visiones contrapuestas de la modernidad en la España de comienzos del siglo XX
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2011, Nueva York como reflejo de dos visiones contrapuestas de la modernidad en la España de comienzos del siglo XX: Imágenes de futuridad y primitivismo en la novela Anticípolis de Luis de Oteyza. in Del verbo al espejo: Reflejos y miradas de la literatura hispánica. PPU. Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, Barcelona, pp. 151-159.

2008

• Camilo Gonsar’s Cara a Times Square: Losing the Local Identity in the Globalized Metropolis.
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, DR 2008, 'Camilo Gonsar’s Cara a Times Square: Losing the Local Identity in the Globalized Metropolis.' Paper presented at Programme Intensif Urbes Europeae. Crise et reconceptualisation de la ville européene. Avant-garde et post-avangarde, Université de Paris 8., 3/01/01, .
• Nova York na literatura galega: un caso inesperado.
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, DR 2008, 'Nova York na literatura galega: un caso inesperado.' Paper presented at Coming Out of the Nation: Beyond the National in Contemporary Galician Cultural Production. Organized by Centre of Galician Studies in Wales (Bangor University) and University of Liverpool, 18-20 May 2008., 3/01/01, .

2007

• Spanish Writers in/on New York
  
  Miranda-Barreiro, D 2007, 'Spanish Writers in/on New York: Changing Approaches to Cultures in Contact' Paper presented at N/DIFFERENCE: Current and Historical Perspectives on Cultures in Contact, a conference of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Modern Languages, University of Limerick, 2007, Ireland, 9/11/07, .

2019

• José Rubia Barcia’s Exile of Reason and Bile: Creating an Anti-Francoist Narrative from the United States
  Despite the (permanent or temporal) residency of prominent Spanish Republican intellectuals such as Pedro Salinas, Luis Cernuda, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Américo Castro in the United States, this country still has a rather marginal presence within the growing corpus of studies of the Republican exile of 1939. Furthermore, despite having successful academic and literary careers in the U.S., the life and work of some of these exiles have not received great critical attention. This is the case of José Rubia Barcia (Ferrol, 1914 – Santa Monica, 1997), who after standing out as brilliant student in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Granada and fighting against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, left the country for Cuba and later on for the United States, where he became a Lecturer in Spanish Literature at UCLA. Apart from his contribution to the development of Hispanic Studies in this country (he published extensively on authors such as Valle-Inclán and translated the Peruvian poet César Vallejo into English), Rubia Barcia remained a staunch defender of the Spanish Republican Government (which also caused his arrest and almost deportation accused of Communism, during McCarthyism). This seminar will examine Rubia Barcia’s position within the Spanish Republican exile in the United States, by looking especially at his efforts to create an anti-Francoist narrative that challenged the views of the Spanish war and Franco’s dictatorship not only promoted by the
  regime itself, but also by the support given by the U.S. to Francoism in the context of the Cold War. Rubia Barcia’s counter-discourse was developed in the articles he wrote for the press, especially for the pro-Republican newspaper España Libre, published in New York until the death of the Spanish dictator. These (and other) articles were subsequently gathered in the volume Prosas de Razón y Hiel. Desde el Exilio: desmitificando al franquismo y ensoñando una España mejor
  [Writings of Reason and Bile. From Exile: Demystifying Francoism and Dreaming about a Better Spain] (1976). His criticism of Francoism is also present in his creative writing, in the text Umbral de sueños [Dream Threshold] (1961), a volume of prose poetry. The analysis of the anti-Francoist narrative created in José Rubia Barcia’s texts will shed light on the discursive efforts to challenge Francoist official narratives carried out by the Republican exiles and, in the case of those settled in the United States, their reaction to the endorsement that the government of this country gave to Franco’s dictatorship.
  14 Mar 2019
  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Studies in Comics (Journal)
  Co-guest editor of the Special Issue of Studies in Comics on 'Comics & Nation'
  2019
  Activity: Editorial activity (Guest editor)

2017

• Inteview on the radio programme 'Un país mundial'
  I was interviewed about my research on Galician migration and exile to New York and New Jersey on the radio programme 'Un país mundial' [A Global Country] from the Radio Galega (Galician Radio).
  12 Nov 2017
  Links: http://www.crtvg.es/rg/podcast/un-pais-mundial-un-pais-mundial-do-dia-12-11-2017-3538253
  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
• Galician New York: Migration, Exile, Globalisation
  New Research on Galician Migrations: Half-Day Symposium Irish Centre for Galician Studies University College Cork Friday 10th November 2017 Half-day symposium on migrations is hosted by the Irish Centre for Galician Studies in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Abstract: This seminar will examine the case of Galician migration and exile to New York City and the literary accounts of this experience. Whereas the displacement of Galician population to South America has been the object of extensive research, little attention has been given to the presence of Galicians in New York, although they represented the majority of migrants of Spanish origin settled in the city since the nineteenth century. The significance of migration in the articulation of Galician identity has led scholars such as Colmeiro (2009 & 2017), Hooper (2011) and Romero (2012) to argue for Galicia’s operation as a global culture. The presence of Galicia in New York not only confirms this argument, but also makes the Galicia-New York connection productive for understanding and rethinking boundaries between local and global, by looking at the ways in which a minority culture is articulated, contested and celebrated at the core of a global city such as New York.
  10 Nov 2017
  External Organisation: University College Cork
  Links: https://www.ucc.ie/en/splas/newsevents/new-research-on-galician-migrations-half-day-symposium.html
  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Comics & Nation
  13 Jul 2017 – 14 Jul 2017
  Activity: Participation in conference (Organiser)

2016

• Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies (Journal)
  Special Issue: 'Galician Identity in Motion: Approaches to Displacement in the 20th Century'
  2016 – 2017
  Activity: Editorial activity (Editor)

2015

• Galicia non ten apelido: a galega invisible de 'Ocho apellidos catalanes'
  Published on the online newspaper Praza Pública
  26 Dec 2015
  Links: http://praza.gal/opinion/3029/galicia-non-ten-apelido-a-galega-invisible-de-ocho-apellidos-catalanes/
  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
• Fronte Popular Antifascista Galega de Nova York: unha lembranza
  Published on the online newpaper Praza Pública
  17 Nov 2015
  Links: http://praza.gal/opinion/2938/a-fronte-popular-antifascista-galega-de-nova-york-unha-lembranza/
  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
• Unha verdade incómoda: Fascismo, Galeguismo e memoria histórica
  Published on the online newspaper Praza Pública
  26 Jul 2015
  Links: http://praza.gal/opinion/2687/unha-verdade-incomoda-fascismo-galeguismo-e-memoria-historica/
  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
• Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies (Journal)
  2015 →
  Links: Galicia 21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies is a peer-reviewed online journal that seeks to provide a critical forum for the discipline of Galician Studies on an international level by publishing innovative theoretical and critical work of the highest quality. The journal promotes the study of so far understudied areas within the discipline, such as Galician visual and digital culture, film, media, popular culture, cultural theory and history, while it encourages the incorporation of critical and theoretical explorations of key concepts for Galician culture such as nation, identity, power, gender and space.
  Activity: Editorial activity (Editor)

2013

• ‘Galician Identity in a Global Era: Camilo Gonsar’s Cara a Times Square (1980)’
  Media and Culture in Small Nations 2012/13 Seminar Series, University of Glamorgan
  Feb 2013 →
  Links: http://culture.research.southwales.ac.uk/events/2013/feb/20/seminar-galician-identity/
  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Travel Writing and Narratives of Mobility in Contemporary Iberian Literature, University College Cork, 2013
  Conference co-organiser with Dr Martín Veiga and Dr Sergi Mainer (University College Cork)
  2013 →
  Activity: Participation in conference (Organiser)

2012

• X Congreso Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos, Cardiff University, 2012
  2012 →
  Activity: Participation in conference (Organiser)

Public Engagement and Outreach

• Interview on the radio programme 'Un país mundial' (RTVG, Galician radio). LINK (from 27:20): http://www.crtvg.es/rg/a-carta/un-pais-mundial-un-pais-mundial-do-dia-12-11-2017-3538846
• Press article: ‘Galicia non ten apelido: a galega invisible de Ocho apellidos catalanes’, Praza Pública, 26/12/2015. LINK: http://praza.gal/opinion/3029/galicia-non-ten-apelido-a-galega-invisible-de-ocho-apellidos-catalanes/
• Press article: ‘A Fronte Popular Antifascista Galega de Nova York: unha lembranza’, Praza Pública, 17/11/2015. Link: http://praza.gal/opinion/2938/a-fronte-popular-antifascista-galega-de-nova-york-unha-lembranza/
• Press article: ‘Unha verdade incómoda: Fascismo, Galeguismo e memoria histórica’, Praza Pública, 26/7/2015. Link: http://praza.gal/opinion/2687/unha-verdade-incomoda-fascismo-galeguismo-e-memoria-historica/

Invited Talks

• ‘Galician New York: Migration, Exile, Globalisation’ – ‘New Research on Galician Migrations: Half-Day Symposium’, University College Cork, 2017. Link: https://www.ucc.ie/en/sllc/news/new-research-on-galician-migrations-half-day-symposium.html
• ‘Galician Identity in a Global Era: Camilo Gonsar’s Cara a Times  Square (1980)’ - Media and Culture in Small Nations 2012/13 Seminar Series, University of Glamorgan, 2013. LINK: http://culture.research.southwales.ac.uk/events/2013/feb/20/seminar-galician-identity/