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Professor Helena Miguelez-Carballeira

Professor in Hispanic Studies

h.m.carballeira@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0003-0492-211X

Professor Helena Miguelez-Carballeira

View Professor Helena Miguelez-Carballeira’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Overview

I read English language and literature at the University of Vigo (1996–2000, Premio Fin de Carreira). In 2000 I moved to Scotland to complete an MSc in Translation Studies (2000–2001; funded by a Caixa Galicia postgraduate scholarship) and a PhD in Hispanic Studies (2001–2005; funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board) at The University of Edinburgh. Following a semester as Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, I joined Bangor University in January 2005 as Lecturer in Spanish and Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (2006 to present). I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013 and to a Full Professorship in 2020. In 2019 I was honoured to be admitted into the Gorsedd Cymru for my contribution to academic and public life in Wales. In 2021 I became an elected Fellow of The Learned Society of Wales.

I am a specialist on the cultures, histories, and politics of the Hispanophone world with parallel expertise in the field of Translation Studies. My work has studied the intellectual histories of nationalisms in Spain; the relationship between culture and the state; and the recent ‘rural turn’ in Spanish culture. My book Galicia, a Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics (U of Wales Press, 2013) was translated into Galician as Galiza, um povo sentimental? Género, política e cultura no imaginário nacional galego (2014) and received the 2015 Best Essay Award by the Association of Writers in Galician. I have edited the books Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence, Independence (U of Wales Press, 2024) and A Companion to Galician Studies (Tamesis, 2014) and special issues for the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Translation Studies. My articles have appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Hispanic Research Journal, the International Journal of Iberian Studies, Men and Masculinities, and The Translator. In Wales, I have published articles on Hispanic cultures and politics for the literary magazine O’r Pedwar Gwynt.

My teaching for Bangor University’s BA in Modern Languages includes first-year courses on the Spanish Civil War and the history of Spanish colonialism; Spanish language and translation courses, and environmental approaches to Colombian transitional justice. I am the director of the MA in Translation Studies, where my teaching includes classes on translation and gender, translation and ethics and professional skills in the translation industry. I have supervised 11 PhD theses to completion in all disciplines of my expertise (Galician Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Translation Studies) and very much welcome proposals from prospective candidates in these areas. In 2023 I received a student-led teaching award for innovation in teaching.

Currently, I serve as Co-Lead of REF2029 preparations concerning Modern Languages and Linguistics. I am Research Integrity Lead at the School of Arts, Culture and Language.

Additional Contact Information

Position: Professor in Hispanic Studies

Email: h.m.carballeira@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: 01248 382041 (2041 internal)

Location: Ystafell/ Room 451

Prif Adeilad y Celfyddydau | Main Arts Building

Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University

Fford y Coleg, Bangor. LL57 2DG

Teaching and Supervision

Year 1

  • Hispanic Studies component of LXE1600 Transnational Cultures and LXE1700 History in Context

Year 2

  • Spanish Language: Grammar Component of LZS2020 and LZS2040.

Year 4

  • Adaptations in Hispanic Cinema as part of the module LXI3011 Adaptations in European Cinema
  • Spanish Language: Translation and Advanced Grammar component of LZS3020/30/40
  • Spanish UG Dissertation Supervisor

MA

  • Programme Lead for MA in Translation Studies
  • Elements of Academic Writing as part of the module LXM Research Methods

PhD Supervision

My previous PhD students include:

  • Tegau Andrews (awarded 2011): ‘Websites and the Translation of Minority Languages: A Case Study in the Welsh Context’
  • David Miranda-Barreiro (awarded 2012): ‘Gender, Nation and Otherness in Spanish New York Narratives’. Awarded AHGBI Best Thesis 2012.
  • Adam Pearce (awarded 2014): ‘Translating the Welsh Canon: The Translations of Daniel Owen’s Novels into English’
  • Maria Cristina Seccia (awarded 2014): ‘Italo-Canadian Writing and Cultural Translation: Translating Caterina Edwards’ The Lion’s Mouth into Italian’
  • Jinquan Yu (awarded 2019): ‘Dylan Thomas in Chinese translation: a sociological analysis’
  • Lorena López-López (awarded 2019): 'Dialogando coas marxes na narrativa malega de autoría feminina'
  • Antigoni Bazani (awarded 2019): 'Translation and L2 Teaching: Tracing an Invisible Relationship in the Monolingual and Post-Monolingual Teaching Context'

I currently supervise or co-supervise the following PhD theses in a variety of disciplines:

  • Belén Iglesias-Arbor: ‘Translating the Spanish Best-Seller: María Dueñas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Ruiz Zafón’
  • Changjing Liu (as co-supervisor): ‘Chinese avant-garde fiction in translation’
  • Yujuan Zhou (as co-supervisor): ‘An analysis of place in David Hawkes’ translations of The Story of the Stone’
  • Chunli Shen (as co-supervisor): ‘Translating the novels of Yan Lianke into English’

Research Interests

I approach the study of present-day politics and cultures in Spain, including the cultures of Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country, as marked by enduring post-imperial tensions. Placing forms of material and symbolic violence at the core of such approach, providing nuanced national contextualisation and interrogating multiculturalist approaches to post-Francoist Spain, my work has provided novel understandings of a range of themes: the historical formation of national identity discourses (Galicia, a Sentimental Nation, 2013), the dynamics of competitive masculinities in nationalisms ("The Imperial within", 2017), or the cultural representation of the legacies of violence in the Basque Country after ETA ("Poetics of Post-ETA Spain", 2017).

My work has interrogated the canon (for example, by offering new ways of reading and teaching Rosalía de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazán and José Ortega y Gasset) as well as engaging with little-studied contexts and practices (musical satire in Galicia, torture testimonials and ephemeral exhibitions in the Basque Country). Since my doctoral studies, I have remained an active researcher in the field of Translation Studies, with a particular interest in gender and non-state nations. In this area, I have published on the English translations of Catalan writer Mercé Rodoreda’s classic La plaça del Diamant, have translated Galician poet María do Cebreiro into English (I am not from here) and have led a pioneering research project on translation in Wales, culminating in the Special Issue ‘Translation in Wales: History Theory and Approaches’ of the journal Translation Studies.  

Following from the award of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2015–2016), my current research seeks to transform understandings of national conflict in Spain by applying postcolonial theories. In particular, it innovatively engages forms of postcolonial enquiry (independence, perpetrator studies, testimonial life narratives, migrant connectivity practices, post-conflict reconciliation, para-colonial aesthetics, orientalisms) with a critique of imperial reason in late nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary Spain. I am currently preparing two publications as part of this research strand: a monograph, Contested Colonialities in the Long Spanish Twentieth-Century: Empire, Nation, Independence (under contract with Palgrave), which connects the ongoing inflections of Spain’s internal national conflict with the legacies of imperial violence inscribed in Spanish democratic modernity; and an edited volume with selected studies following from the organisation of the international conference ‘Postcolonial Spain? Contexts, Politics and Cultural Practices’ (Bangor, 2017).

I am also currently developing new research on how contemporary Galician culture has registered the disappearance of autochthonous rural life in the last three decades, combining my long-standing interests in postcolonial theory with aspects of ecocriticism, trauma and animal studies. This strand of my current research forms the basis of my graduate seminar ‘Elegies without consolation: poetics of territory and conflict in contemporary Galician Culture’, which I delivered at The Graduate Center of CUNY (2018).

Central to my approach is collaborating regularly with other researchers, cultural practitioners, politicians and social movements. Examples of recent and current collaborations include:

  • Organiser and speaker, with Hywel Wiliams (MP, Plaid Cymru, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Catalonia), of the event ‘Understanding independence in contemporary Spain: notes on the Catalan referendum’, Bangor, 27 October 2017.
  • Collaboration with Catalan feminist direct action group ‘Gatamaula’ for the publication of multi-authored volume Terra de Ningú: Perspectives feministes sobre la independència (2017).
  • Participation in research network ‘Contested Identities: Cultural Dialogues between Small Nations’ (led by Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, funded by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2015–2017).
  • Participation in research network ‘La experiencia de la sociedad moderna en España: Emociones, relaciones de género y subjetividades (siglos XIX y XX)’ (led by Professor Nerea Aresti, University of the Basque Country, funded by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, 2017–2019).
  • Participation in research network ‘Unha análise da obra narrativa de Rosalía de Castro: Fundamentos teóricos e metodolóxicos’ (led by Dr María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, University of Santiago de Compostela, funded by the Xunta de Galicia Government, 2010–2012).

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

I have extensive experience in postgraduate supervision across a range of disciplines, including Galician Studies, Hispanic Studies and Translation Studies. I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my areas of interest, especially the following: discourses of coloniality in contemporary Spain; Galician cultural studies (especially gender studies, contemporary literature, Rosalía de Castro, ecocriticism, cultural approaches to rurality, trauma); translation and minority across cultures.

Publications

2025

  • Published'Geografías de la nueva España negra: discapacidad, ruralidad y violencia en As bestas (2022) de Rodrigo Sorogoyen'
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 17 Mar 2025, Imaginarios del rural: Literatura, cine y medios en el contexto español. Enric, C., López, B. & Miguélez-Carballeira, H. (eds.). Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili , p. 75-90
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2024

  • PublishedCultural Engagements with the Rural in Contemporary Spain: Manifestations and Critical Tensions
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor) & Usoz de la Fuente, M. (Editor), 18 Nov 2024, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 25, 4, p. 465-475 11 p.
    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue
  • PublishedPostcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence, independence
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 1 Apr 2024, Universiy of Wales Press. (Iberian and Latin American Studies)
    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
  • Published'The Spanish Rural Subject and the Instituto Nacional de Colonizacion (1939-1971): Coloniality, Biopolitics and memory'
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Apr 2024, Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence and Independence. Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (ed.). Cardiff: Universiy of Wales Press, p. 147-166
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedThe traumatic rural unconscious in contemporary Galician culture: hydro-political violence in literature and film
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 25, 4, p. 549-564 16 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

  • PublishedDefnydd Cyfieithu yn Niwylliannau Llenyddol Cymru yn yr 20fed a'r 21ain Ganrif
    Jewell, R. (Guest editor), Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Guest editor) & Sams, H. (Guest editor), Apr 2023, In: Y Traethodydd. 76, 746, p. 69-78
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • Published"Disability and Post-ETA Poetics"
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 4 Dec 2023, In: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Dec 2022, p. 371-384
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published'El sujeto rural español y el Instituto Nacional de Colonización (1939–1971): colonialidad, biopolítica y memoria'
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 4 Feb 2023, El Imperio en casa: Género, raza y nación en la España contemporánea. Andreu-Miralles, X. (ed.). Madrid: Sílex Ediciones, p. 195-215
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published'Extrativismo e cultura galega: quatro hipóteses críticas'
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Pesado, P., 22 Dec 2023, In: Clara Corbelhe. 3, p. 19-29
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2022

  • Published'Gwagio Sbaen'
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 10 Dec 2022, In: O'r Pedwar Gwynt. 2022, 20, p. 27-28 2 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • PublishedLa cultura del consenso como lenguaje literario
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 23 May 2022, España comparada: literatura, lengua y política en la cultura contemporánea. Claesson, C. (ed.). Granada: Comares, p. 55-72
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2021

  • Published'Emilia Pardo Bazán: entre a subalternidade e a capitalidade cultural'
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 8 Apr 2021, 22 p. A Coruña : Luzes.
    Research output: Other contribution
  • Published"Nossoutros, se tivéssemos para onde ir, nao vínhamos para aqui: comunidades de sentido nos Assentamentos de Colonizaçao da Terra Cha"
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & de Pablo, J., 21 Dec 2021, Clara Corbelhe, 1, p. 69-78 9 p.
    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2020

  • PublishedChwilio am T Ifor Rees, llysgennad Ei Fawrhydi: Safbwynt Mecsicanaidd: [Looking for T Ifor Rees, HM Ambassador: A Mexican Perspective]
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 8 Aug 2020, In: O'r Pedwar Gwynt. 13, p. 21-22
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • PublishedPosterity and Periphery in Nineteenth-Century Galicia
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 25 Sept 2020, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain. Marti-Lopez, E. (ed.). Routledge, p. 205-217
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedCadw'r fflam ynghyn: Golwg ar Galisia
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Jul 2019, In: Barn. 678/679, p. 33-35
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2018

  • PublishedCerddi Martin Codax: Cyfieithiadau o gerddi hynaf yr iaith Aliseg-Bortiwgaleg
    Jones, A. (Translator), Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Translator) & Costas Gonzalez, X.-H. (Editor), 2018, Vigo : Universidade De Vigo.
    Research output: Other contribution
  • PublishedFernando Aramburu: Patria [Homeland]
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 17 Jul 2018, The Literary Encyclopedia: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Writing and Culture, 1700 - present. Bertran, S., Fimi, D., Green, S., Grohman, A. & Wheeler, D. (eds.). The Literary Encyclopedia, Vol. 1.6.2.02.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
  • PublishedSentimentalismo y consenso: Imaginarios sobre Galicia en el periodo democratico
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Mar 2018, La cultura de las emociones y las emociones en la cultura española contemporánea: siglos XVIII-XXI. Delgado, L. E., Labanyi, J. & Fernandez, P. (eds.). Catedra, p. 255-271
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2017

  • PublishedEl imperio interno: Discursos sobre masculinidad e imperio en los imaginarios nacionales español y catalán del siglo XX
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 30 Sept 2017, In: Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea. 39, p. 105-128
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedOcho apellidos vascos and the Poetics of Post-ETA Spain
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Sept 2017, In: International Journal of Iberian Studies. 30, 3, p. 165-182
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedRefferendwm Catalwnia
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Dec 2017, In: O'r Pedwar Gwynt. 5, p. 3-4 2 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • PublishedTeaching Pardo Bazán from a Postcolonial and Transatlantic Perspective
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Nov 2017, Approaches to Teaching the writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Versteeg, M. & Walter, S. (eds.). Modern Languages Association, p. 86-92 (Approaches to Teaching World Literature).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published‘«Virilitat de país»: discursos sobre masculinitat, nació i poder polític’
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Dec 2017, Terra de ningú: Perspectives feministes sobre la independència. Barcelona: Pol•len Edicions, p. 131-137
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2016

  • PublishedIntroduction: Translation in Wales: History, theory and Approaches
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Price, A. & Kauffmann, J., 1 Mar 2016, In: Translation Studies. 9, 2, p. 125-136
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedSentimentality as Consensus: Imagining Galicia in the Democratic Period
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Delgado, L. E. (Editor), Fernandez, P. (Editor) & Labanyi, J. (Editor), 2016, Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History. 2015 ed. Vanderbilt University Press, p. 210-224
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2014

  • PublishedA casa de Rosalía, a Rosalía da casa: Historia, discurso e representación na Casa-Museo de Rosalía de Castro
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2014, Rosalía de Castro no século XXI: Unha nova ollada. Alvarez, R., Angueira, A., Rabade, M. C. & Vilavedra, D. (eds.). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedA Companion to Galician Culture
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 16 Oct 2014, 2014 ed. Tamesis Books.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • PublishedAn Introduction to Galician Culture
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 16 Oct 2014, A Companion to Galician Culture. 2014 ed. Tamesis Books, p. 1-12
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedGaliza, um povo sentimental? Género, política e cultura no imaginário nacional galego
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Nov 2014, Atraves.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • PublishedRosalía de Castro: Life, Text and Afterlife
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Editor), 16 Oct 2014, A Companion to Galician Culture. 2014 ed. Tamesis Books, p. 175-193
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2013

  • PublishedGalicia, A Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 15 Jul 2013, University of Wales Press.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2012

  • PublishedFrom Sentimentality to Masculine Excess in Galician National Discourse: Approaching Ricardo Carvalho Calero’s Literary History
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Oct 2012, In: Men and Masculinities. 15, 4, p. 367-387
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published“La Literatura es eso, Literatura”: The Rhetoric of empty culture in Francoist and Neo-Francoist Discourses
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 2012, In: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 13, 2, p. 189-203
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published¿Por qué Rosalía de Castro tenía razón? El caballero de las botas azules como texto antisistema
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 2012, Canon y subversión: La obra narrativa de Rosalía de Castro. Gonzalez-Fernandez, H. & Rabade Villar, M. D. C. (eds.). Icaria, p. 121-138
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2010

  • PublishedI am not from Here: A Translation for Maria do Cebreiro.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2010, I am not from here. Maria do Cebreiro. 2010 ed. Shearsman, p. 7-14
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedOf nouns and adjectives: women's fiction and literary criticism in Galicia.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., Palacios, M. (Editor) & Xesús Nogueira, M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, Creation: Publishing and Criticism: The Advance of Women’s Writing.. 2010 ed. Peter Lang, p. 119-132
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedSentiment as Instrument: Augusto González Besada and Galician Literary History.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2010.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2009

  • PublishedAlternative Values: From the National to the Sentimental in the Redrawing of Galician Literary History
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Apr 2009, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 86, 2, p. 271-292
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedIntroduction: Critical Approaches to the Nation in Galician Studies
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H. & Hooper, K., 1 Apr 2009, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 86, 2, p. 201-212
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2008

  • PublishedInaugurar, reanudar, renovar: A escrita de Teresa Moure no contexto da narrativa feminista contemporánea.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2008, In: Anuario de Estudios Galegos. 2006, p. 72-87
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedSome Metacritical Considerations around the Problematical Rapport between Peninsular Women Writers and Anglo-American Feminist Hispanists.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2008, Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish: Portuguese and Latin American Studies.. Davies, A., Kumaraswami, P. & Williams, C. (eds.). 2008 ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 8-24
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2007

  • Published'Perpetuating Asymmetries: The Interdisciplinary Encounter between Translation Studies and Hispanic Studies.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Sept 2007, In: Hispanic Research Journal. 8, 4, p. 365-380
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThrowing stones at our own roof: Approaching metacritical concern in Anglo-American Hispanism
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 2007, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 84, 2, p. 161-178
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2005

  • PublishedGender-related Issues in the English Translations of Esther Tusquets and Rosa Montero: Discrepancies between Critical and Translational Figurations
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2005, In: New Voices in Translation Studies. 1, p. 43-55
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2003

  • PublishedLanguage and Characterization in Mercè Rodoreda's La Plaça del Diamant: Towards a Third Translation into English.
    Miguelez-Carballeira, H., 1 Jan 2003, In: The Translator. 9, p. 101-124
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Activities

2025

  • 'As linguagens litérarias da Espanha diversa: marcos, método, mutaçoes'

    Invited keynote talk at the International seminar “Cânone e periferias / Cànon i perifèries / Canon y periferias”, held at the University of Lisbon between 6-7 of March, 2025. This is part of the project ESCORE, “Escritores, comunidad y reconocimiento en las literaturas periféricas peninsulares, 1972-2022” (PID2021-127226NB-I00), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

    6 Mar 2025

    Links:

    • https://www.upf.edu/web/escore/events/-/asset_publisher/9hj7gOk9PVZs/content/third-escore-seminar-in-lisbon/maximized
    Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)

2024

  • Book launch of Ana Fernández-Cebrián's 'Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain, 1950-1967'.

    Interview with the author held as public event in Santiago de Compostela's art-house cinema and bookshop, Numax.

    19 Jul 2024

    Links:

    • https://numax.org/novas/detalle/ana-fernandez-cebrian-helena-miguelez-conversaran-fables-develepment?locale=es
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Contributor)
  • 'The place of the Monuments to Curros Enríquez in A Coruña and Vigo: urban desarrollismo, ideology and cultural memory'

    3 Jul 2024

    Links:

    • http://www.tllc-usc.gal/actividade/bz7ziikha1bp/?lang=es
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Academic Dialogues on Iberian Inter-Literary Relations

    Academic Dialogues on Iberian Inter-Literary Relations

    18 May 2024

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)

2023

  • 'The Commons in Spanish and Galician culture: notes on research progress'

    A presentation on current research project at the Instituto Pensar (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia).

    8 Nov 2023

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • II Jornada de Estudo Clara Corbelhe [Second Study Day organised by the Galician Critical Thought group Espaço Clara Corbelhe]

    7 Oct 2023

    Links:

    • https://claracorbelhe.gal/estudos/ii-jornada-de-estudo-clara-corbelhe/
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)
  • "O género do país no imaginário nacionalista galego" [Gender in the Galician nationalist imaginary]

    6 Oct 2023

    Links:

    • https://www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/eventos/queer-emos-estudos-queer
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)
  • Despoblació i repoblació rural: una perspectiva gallega a través de Ninguén queda (2022) de Brais Lamela i As bestas (2022) de Rodrigo Sorogoyen

    Keynote delivered at one-day symposium on cultural representations of new rural mobilities in Galicia.

    The talk analyzed the emergence of rural themes in literary, film, and media fields. It focused on the reading of two highly successful cultural products associated with this rural boom: the film As bestas (2022) by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and the novel Nobody Remains (2022) by Brais Lamela, arguing that they offer two opposing views on the dispossession processes that contemporary Galician rural society has been forced to.

    22 Sep 2023

    Links:

    • https://symposium.uoc.edu/101330/programme/primera-jornada-identicat-la-questio-migratoria-galicia-com-a-estudi-de-cas.html
    Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)
  • 'Moving Past Patria: Locating Memory in Contemporary Basque Literature'

    15 May 2023

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)
  • Imaginarios del rural: Cultura, cine, periodismo

    Keynote delivered at two-day symposium on representations of the rural in contemporary Spain.

    11 Apr 2023 – 12 Apr 2023

    Links:

    • https://ruralim.wordpress.com/i-seminario-ruralim/
    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Keynote/plenary speaker)

2022

  • 'Knowledge Production across Borders: Insights and Opportunities'

    A multidisciplinary panel bringing together humanities and social sciences researchers to discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise from their collaboration with Indigenous communities and researchers outside the UK.

    10 Nov 2022

    Links:

    • https://www.learnedsociety.wales/lsw-event/panel-discussion/
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Chair)
  • I Jornada de Estudo Clara Corbelhe

    Member of Organising Committee, Chair and Participant at First Study Day of the Galician critical studies collective Espaço Clara Corbelhe.

    10 Sep 2022

    Links:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGfJCVwH8SU&t=687s
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)
  • Universitat Rovira i Virgili (External organisation)

    Participant researcher in international research network: 'RURALIM: New Imaginaries of Rurality in Contemporary Spain: Culture, Documentary Film, Journalism' (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain).

    1 Sep 2022 – 1 Sep 2024

    Activity: Membership of network (Member)
  • University of Santiago de Compostela (External organisation)

    Participant researcher in international research network 'The inscription of memory in the public space: strategies of institutional consumption of the literary past (1837-1978)' (University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain).

    1 Sep 2022 – 1 Sep 2024

    Activity: Membership of network (Member)
  • 'Galiza na encrucillada decolonial'

    Guest speaker at Study Group on Decolonial studies, Fundación Luís Seoane (A Coruña, Galiza, Spain).

    17 Jun 2022

    Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)
  • "Debat Catarsi-Espaço Clara Corbelhe: Questió nacional"

    A round-table discussion on anticolonial approaches to self-determination movements in Spain, held at Barcelona's radical Book Fair 'La Literal'.

    21 May 2022

    Links:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnnagYOmS78
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • 'El Instituto Nacional de Colonización (1939-1971): colonialidad, biopolítica y memoria'

    An invited talk delivered to students of Hispanic Studies at the University of Antwerp.

    29 Apr 2022

    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Poetics of the Sayable: Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain

    Co-organiser of a one-day international conference funded by the Institute of Modern Languages Research Regional Conference Grant.

    1 Apr 2022

    Links:

    • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/events/poetics-of-the-sayable-framing-crisis-and-conflict-in-contemporary-spain
    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
  • "Realismo máxico, conflito nacional e metaficción histórica de referencia galega (1972-1987): modelos discursivo-ideolóxicos na narrativa de G. Torrente Ballester, V. F. Freixanes e X. L. Ferrín"

    External Examiner to a PhD thesis submitted to the Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

    14 Jan 2022

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2021

  • Clara Corbelhe (Journal)

    Founding Editor and Member of Editorial Committee of magazine "Clara Corbelhe", specialised on Galician critical thought.

    20 Dec 2021 →

    Links:

    • http://www.claracorbelhe.gal
    Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)
  • 'Galicia, a lingua e a sociedade galegas na ideoloxía de Emilia Pardo Bazán'

    Invited contribution to round table

    24 Nov 2021

    Links:

    • http://consellodacultura.gal/evento.php?id=201210
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • 'Del prejuicio al orgullo: ¿Por qué se reivindica la «Galicia profunda»?'

    Interviewed as expert about representations of Galician rural identities (published in Galician daily La Voz de Galicia)

    28 Oct 2021

    Links:

    • https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/amp/noticia/galicia/2021/10/27/rabia-orgullo-produjo-revuelta-galicia-profunda/00031635331522487594409.htm
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • 'Mediating Minority: The Translation of Galician. Narrative into English in the Twenty-first Century (2000-2018)'

    6 Oct 2021

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)
  • Talk on Thomas Ifor Rees, translator of 'Platero a minnau' at the House-Museum of Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez

    The talk accompanied the act of donation of a copy of 'Platero a minnau' to the museum.

    14 Jul 2021

    Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
  • Adjudicator Panel Member of "Manuel Murguia" Essay Award

    Invited to be a member of the adjudicators panel for a national essay award in Galicia.

    12 Jul 2021

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Advisor)
  • Defnydd Cyfiethu yn niwylliannau llenyddol Cymru yn yr 20fed a'r 21ain ganrif [Uses of Translation in Welsh Literary Cultures during the 20th and 21st century]

    25 Jun 2021

    Links:

    • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/arts-humanities-and-business/digwyddiadau/defnydd-cyfieithu-yn-niwylliannau-llenyddol-cymru-yn-yr-20fed-a-r-21ain-ganrif-561
    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
  • 'Galicia on Netflix: Rural Spaces and Queer Temporalities'

    Keynote delivered at the 2021 Hermes Summer School of Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Santiago de Compostela

    24 Jun 2021

    Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)
  • Pleibéricos: online publication presentation in Iberian Studies

    23 Jun 2021

    Links:

    • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5dUaCfkrwbknjT82b2WLQ/videos
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Chair)
  • "El Estado español ante la encrucijada poscolonial: Debates y perspectivas en las ciencias sociales y el pensamiento crítico"

    IV Escuela descolonial / Jornadas IberLAB Poscolonialismo y humanidades: Perspectivas para/desde el sur de Europa

    28 May 2021

    Links:

    • https://cemed.ugr.es/curso/21on27/
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico (External organisation)

    Seminario de Investigación Poéticas de lo Inquietante

    23 Apr 2021 →

    Activity: Membership of network (Member)
  • "Rosalía radical: notas sobre as teorías críticas do s. XIX para ler El caballero de las botas azules"

    A talk delivered at the high school Pazo da Mercé (Galicia, Spain) as part of the 2021 Day of Rosalía de Castro.

    4 Mar 2021

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • "24 de Febreiro: Día de Rosalía"

    A live online streaming event via Twitch about the Galician poet Rosalía de Castro on the day of her birth anniversary. The event was co-organised by the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (Bangor University), the Centre for Galician Studies at the Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal) and the Centre for Galician Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona.

    24 Feb 2021

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • "Os usos políticos de Emilia Pardo Bazán na Galiza de 2021"

    An article in the Galician daily La Opinión, on the subject of what uses to give the Pazo de Meirás, once the manor house of Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, then Francisco Franco's, and currently returned to public use.

    26 Jan 2021

    Links:

    • https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/opinion/2021/01/26/usos-politicos-emilia-pardo-bazan-31290372.html
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2020

  • “Nos corpos das mulleres galegas pódense trazar todos os procesos do noso desposuimento histórico”. Interview

    An interview in the Galician historical magazine Mazarelos to mark the third edition of the Galician translation of monograph Galicia, a Sentimental Nation.

    17 Dec 2020

    Links:

    • https://www.mazarelos.gal/2020/12/14/nos-corpos-das-mulleres-galegas-podense-trazar-todos-os-procesos-do-noso-desposuimento-historico-entrevista-a-helena-miguelez-carballeira/
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • "On Ricardo Carvalho Calero": Discussion Panel at Santiago de Compostela's Book Fair (SELIC)

    A round discussion about Galician intellectual Ricardo Carvalho Calero

    12 Oct 2020

    Links:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEs4R3R33oY
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Pleibéricos

    Invited Chair of Online event in Iberian Studies

    24 Sep 2020

    Links:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvQhFuzWms
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Chair)
  • "Carvalho Calero e a performance do Día das Letras Galegas"

    An article on the online Portal Galego da Língua on the figure commemorated in the 2020 Day of Galician Letters.

    26 May 2020

    Links:

    • https://pgl.gal/carvalho-calero-e-a-performance-do-dia-das-letras-galegas/
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • "Construçom nacional e movimento popular"

    28 Feb 2020

    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)

2019

  • "Feminismo e independencia"

    A public talk on the history of Galician national identity discourses and their implications for feminism and pro-independence movements.

    20 Dec 2019

    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Interviewed on BBC Radio Cymru (Dros Ginio)

    Interviewed on BBC Radio Cymru programme "Dros Ginio" as commentator on Spanish General Elections of 10 November

    11 Nov 2019

    Links:

    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07tmp8t?ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=wales&ns_campaign=bbc_radio_cymru&ns_mchannel=source
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • Book Launch: Angharad price's La vida de la Rebecca Jones in Catalan

    Presenter at Book Launch: Angharad Price's La vida de la Rebecca Jones (Catalan translation of her novel O! Tyn y Gorchudd).

    1 Nov 2019

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
  • Interviewed on BBC Radio Cymru

    Interviewd on Programm Dan yr Wyned gyda Dylan Iorwerth about protests in Catalonia after the publication of the prison sentence for pro-independence politicians

    30 Oct 2019

    Links:

    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009s64
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • Interview, El Progreso

    Interviewed about role as Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales and about having been accepted into the Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain

    16 Jul 2019

    Links:

    • https://www.elprogreso.es/articulo/a-chaira/helena-miguelez-carballeira-galiza-goberno-fai-politicas-linguisticas-galego/201907171739181387743.html
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • Judge (Spanish and Welsh) for Routes into Languages Cymru National Spelling Bee Competition.

    28 Jun 2019

    Links:

    • http://routesintolanguagescymru.co.uk/spelling-bee/
    Activity: Consultancy (Consultant)
  • "The Culture of Consensus and/a Literary Language"

    Invited research talk delivered at the international symposium "Pluriliterary Spain", held at the University of Lund, 7-8 June 2019.

    7 Jun 2019

    Links:

    • https://konferens.ht.lu.se/pluriliterary-spain/english/
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • "Disability and Post-ETA Poetics"

    Invited presentation, delivered at International Conference "Mobilizing Affect: Populism and the Future of Democratic politics in Spain"

    23 Feb 2019

    Links:

    • http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27899
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)

2018

  • Interview on BBC Radio Wales (Good Morning Wales)

    Interviewed by BBC Radio Wales on Spanish perspective on Brexit exit deal with regard to Gibraltar

    24 Nov 2018

    Links:

    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00019gt
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • "The Spanish rural subject and the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (1939-1971): A Biopolitical Perspective"

    Invited talk at the International Symposium "Performing Otherness: a Postcolonial Approach to Francoist Spain"

    26 Oct 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • PhD thesis in Galician Gender Discourse Analysis

    External PhD Assessor, European Doctorate

    10 Oct 2018

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)
  • Undergraduate External Examiner

    Appointment as Undergraduate External Examiner for the BA in Hispanic Studies, The University of Edinburgh.

    1 Aug 2018 – 30 Nov 2020

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)
  • “Formas de volver á casa” [Ways of Returning Home]

    Invited keynote at Observatory of New Galician Diaspora (ONDA), Santiago de Compostela (Galicia)

    20 Jul 2018

    Links:

    • http://onda.gal/formas-de-volver-a-casa/
    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • "Environmental Violence and Galician Post-Francoist Modernity: Reservoirs, Language, Testimony"

    Invited to deliver research seminar at Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal, Spain and the Americas (CEPSAM) at Swansea University

    6 Jun 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • “Autodeterminación y Transición: Una perspectiva cultural” [Self-determination and the Transition: a Cultural Perspective]

    Invited seminar delivered to doctoral students at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Princeton University)

    13 Mar 2018

    Links:

    • https://spo.princeton.edu/events/helena-miguélez-carballeira-bangor-university-autodeterminación-y-transición-una-perspectiva
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Elegies without Consolation: Poetics of Territory, Language and Conflict if Contemporary Galician Culture

    Invited to deliver a week-long research graduate course at The Graduate Center (City University of New York), as part of the Xunta de Galicia Cátedra of Galician Studies.

    5 Mar 2018 – 9 Mar 2018

    Links:

    • https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Latin-American,-Iberian,-and-Latino-Cultures/Courses/Spring-2018
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

2017

  • "Contested Identities: Cultural Dialogues between small nations"

    Invited speaker at public event in Edinburgh's Summerhall on the subject of cultural and political conflict in small nations. I delivered a talk on the Catalan referendum of self-determination of October 2017.

    7 Dec 2017

    Links:

    • http://www.beyondbordersscotland.com/events-detail.php?uid=271511787893
    Activity: Invited talk (Keynote speaker)
  • Postcolonial Spain? Contexts, Politics, Cultural Practices

    Postcolonial Spain? Contexts, Politics, Cultural Practices

    1 Dec 2017 – 2 Dec 2017

    Links:

    • http://postcolonialspain.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en
    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
  • Adjudicator Panel Member of "Manuel Murguia" Essay Award

    I was invited to be a member of the adjudicators panel for a national essay award in Galicia. In this capacity, I was sent 16 essay manuscripts and attended a meeting of the panel.

    29 Nov 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Advisor)
  • Novas Narrativas na Arte Contemporanea Galega

    I was invited as the author of the monograph Galicia, A Sentimental Nation, to participate in one of the conference's round tables, on the subject of gender, feminism and institutions.

    24 Nov 2017

    Links:

    • https://novasnarrativasusc.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/perspectivas-de-xenero/
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)
  • Interview on BBC World Service World Update

    I was contacted directly by BBC World Services to speak at its World Update programme, on the day when the president of the Catalan Parliament was summoned by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice.

    9 Nov 2017

    Links:

    • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vslw2sm8l04
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • Interview by BBC Wales News (Good Morning Wales)

    Interviewed by BBC Wales to provide live analysis on possible declaration of independence on Catalonia (27 October). The public event I organised at Bangor University was publicised

    27 Oct 2017

    Links:

    • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b099wfxt
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • Understanding Independence in Contemporary Spain: Notes on the Catalan Referendum

    Organisation of public event at Bangor University on the Catalan independence process. The event included a talk by Hywel Williams (MP) and myself.

    27 Oct 2017

    Links:

    • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/ml/events/understanding-independence-in-contemporary-spain-notes-on-the-catalan-referendum-33982
    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
  • Interviewed on BBC World Service

    I was interviewed to give live analysis on the Catalan independence process

    26 Oct 2017

    Links:

    • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vhzzfbtzzt6
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • Interview BBC Radio Wales (Sunday Supplement)

    Interviewed as expert in Spanish politics and national conflict on BBC Radio Wales. My research and forthcoming book "Contested Colonialities" was mentioned. Also the event I organised on Catalonia at Bangor University (27 October) was publicised.

    22 Oct 2017

    Links:

    • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b099wfly
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • Universidad del Pais Vasco (External organisation)

    Participant in International Research Network 'La experiencia de la sociedad moderna en España: Emociones, relaciones de género y subjetividades (siglos XIX y XX)'

    1 Sep 2017 – 1 Sep 2019

    Activity: Membership of network (Chair)
  • "Crisis and Relato" Memory Battles in Post-ETA Spain"

    Invited talk at the II WORKSHOP NARRATING THE CRISIS: NEW DISCURSIVE PARADIGMS IN SPANISH CULTURAL PRODUCTION, held at Aston University

    21 Feb 2017

    Links:

    • https://astonclarablog.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/workshop-narrating-the-crisis-discursive-paradigms-in-spanish-cultural-production/
    Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)
  • External Examiner for University of Edinburgh

    Appointment as External Examiner for MSc in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh.

    2017 – 2020

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2016

  • Spain and the Postcolonial: Culture, Politics and National Conflict in the Long Spanish Twentieth Century"

    Invited to deliver one of the keynote talks at the XVII Forum for Iberian Studies, Oxford university

    30 Sep 2016

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Keynote/plenary speaker)
  • Interview by online magazine Nationalia, published by the Centre Internacional Escarre per a les Minories Etniques i les Nacions (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain). Title: "El 'país de países' que reclama Podem és una vella idea d'Ortega y Gasset"

    Extended interview published in the Catalan political and cultural affairs magazine Nationalia, to talk about research findings related to project "Towards a Postcolonial Spain"

    20 Jun 2016

    Links:

    • http://www.nationalia.cat/entrevista/10810/el-pais-de-paises-que-reclama-podem-es-una-vella-idea-dortega-y-gasset
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • "How to be an anticolonial intellectual in Spain and not die in the process: The cases of Alfonso Sastre and Manuel de Pedrolo"

    10 May 2016

    Links:

    • http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/basque-visiting-fellow%E2%80%99s-conference-intellectuals-and-limits-neoliberal-state-globalisation
    Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)
  • Helena Miguélez: "Els pensadors falangistes parlaven d'unitat d'Espanya com un afer colonial"

    Interview by Catalan online daily El Mon to talk about findings related to project "Towards a Postcolonial Spain"

    25 Mar 2016

    Links:

    • http://elmon.cat/noticia/161396/helena_miguelez_161396
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • "Rastrexando o pensamento (anti-)colonial interno no Estado español"

    20 Feb 2016

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)

2015

  • 'Metaphors of Consensus: The Idea of Catalan-Spanish Relations as a (Failed) Marriage'

    Research paper delivered at the 61st Annual Anglo-Catalan Conference

    14 Nov 2015

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
  • Notes on the Postcolonial Spain Project: Ramifications for Contemporary Hispanism

    Research seminar delivered by invitation at the University of Warwick's Department of Hispanic Studies.

    29 Oct 2015

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • "Spain marks its national day: But not everyone is celebrating.”

    Article in The Conversation on the history of Spain's national day

    12 Oct 2015

    Links:

    • http://theconversation.com/spain-marks-its-national-day-but-not-everyone-is-celebrating-49012
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • 'Novos horizontes para os estudos galegos nun mundo globalizado'

    I was invited as keynote speaker at a Round Table on the state of the discipline of international Galician Studies, held at the XI Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies, in Buenos Aires.

    8 Apr 2015

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • XI Conference for the International Association of Galician Studies

    ‘O imaxinario do consenso en Galicia: sentimentalismo, parodia e Os da Ría’, XI Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies, University of Buenos Aires.

    7 Apr 2015

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
  • Peninsular Nationalisms Contrasted

    16 Mar 2015

    Links:

    • https://www.bl.uk/events/peninsular-nationalisms-contrasted
    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • University of Glasgow (External organisation)

    Participant of Research Network 'Contested Identities: Cultural Dialogues between Small Nations'

    1 Jan 2015 – 30 Dec 2017

    Links:

    • https://contestedidentities.wordpress.com/
    Activity: Membership of network (Chair)

2014

  • "O sentimentalismo foi o pegamento do consenso autonómico"

    Interview in Galician online daily Praza Pública about the argument of my book, Galicia, a Sentimental Nation.

    30 Dec 2014

    Links:

    • http://praza.gal/cultura/8527/o-sentimentalismo-foi-o-pegamento-do-consenso-autonomico/
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)
  • 'Seny y Sentimiento: hacia una crítica postcolonial y feminista de los imaginarios de la diferencia nacional'

    Invited as keynote speaker at two-day conference organised by Prof. Nerea Aresti (University of the Basque Country) on gender approaches to historiography

    30 May 2014

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2013

  • Interview Galiza Ano Cero

    Extensive interview broadcast on Galician online TV channel, Galiza Ano Cero, about the arguments of my book Galicia, a Sentimental Nation.

    20 Dec 2013

    Links:

    • https://vimeo.com/89496245
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2012

  • ‘Canto custa encher un baleiro? Usos da Cultura Galega’, Simposio ‘Cultura e Crise’, CIPCE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

    26 Oct 2012

    Links:

    • https://www.usc.es/gl/institutos/cippce/simposio2012.html
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • Translation in Non-State Cultures: Perspectives from Wales

    International Conference held as main event in AHRC-funded project.

    10 Sep 2012 – 11 Sep 2012

    Links:

    • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/ml/ahrc_translation.php.en
    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
  • “A crítica carvalhocaleriana”

    This is a second article published in El País, Galicia on a feminist critique of Galician literary historian Ricardo Carvalho Calero, published as a response to reactions to my previous article, 'O outro tabú sobre Carvalho Calero', 16 March 2012.

    30 Mar 2012

    Links:

    • https://elpais.com/ccaa/2012/03/29/galicia/1333050253_438695.html
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • 'O outro tabú sobre Carvalho Calero'

    Article published in El País, Galicia, with first directions for a feminist critique of Galician literary historian Ricardo Carvalho Calero.

    16 Mar 2012

    Links:

    • https://elpais.com/ccaa/2012/03/15/galicia/1331840052_953133.html
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2011

  • ‘Masculine Mystique in Carvalho Calero’s Galician Literary History’, Invited talk delivered at 'Beyond Don Juan: Iberian Masculinities' Symposium.

    1 Apr 2011

    Links:

    • https://www.ub.edu/adhuc/en/congressos-i-seminaris/beyond-don-juan-rethinking-iberian-masculinities
    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)

Projects

  • Poetics of the Sayable: Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain

    01/11/2021 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

  • The Translations of T. Ifor Rees

    01/04/2019 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

  • Towards a Postcolonial Spain: History, Political Cultures and Material Realities

    01/10/2015 – 18/11/2016 (Finished)

    Description

    ‘Postcolonial Spain’ aims to be the first academic event to map postcolonial/decolonial theories onto Hispanic peninsular studies, aiming to diversify radically how the discipline thinks about the interconnected legacies of colonialism, empire, nationalisms, emigration, ethnicity and conflict in contemporary Spain. As the fissures of the Spanish post-1978 territorial consensus widen, this event is intended as a key intervention in the discipline of Spanish peninsular studies and into how it has ‘theorised away’ Spain’s internal national conflicts, their associated discourses and cultural manifestations and the ways in which these remain entangled with enduring forms of post-imperial reason.

    Chief among the conference’s aims is to articulate for the discipline of Hispanic (peninsular) studies a new way of thinking about ongoing processes of transnational/national/regional transformation, including independence processes, with a view to re-interrogating questions of democraticity in contemporary Spain and challenging predominant nationalist paradigms. The conference also seeks to engage cultural studies scholarship with pressing socio-political processes developing in contemporary Spain, such as the Catalan process of independence, post-conflict resolution in the Basque Country and the politics of border and immigration control, all of which can be illuminated by postcolonial/decolonial forms of enquiry.

    Links:

  • Gender and Nation in Galicia: A Cultural History

    01/08/2013 – 21/08/2014 (Finished)

  • Translation in Non-States Cultures: perspectives from Wales

    14/02/2012 – 16/04/2013 (Finished)

  • Centre for Galician Studies - Partnership Agreement for the Teaching and Promotion of the Galician Language, Literature and Culture

    01/09/2009 – 31/08/2012 (Finished)

    Links:

    • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/languages-literatures-and-linguistics/galician/index.php.en

Other Grants and Projects

  • The Translations of T. Ifor Rees: Approaching Welsh-Hispanic Cultural Relations in the 2th-Century (MEITS University of Cambridge/AHRC Open World Research Initiative, 2019-2020).
  • Towards a Postcolonial Spain: History, Political Cultures and Material Realities (British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 2015-2016)
  • Gender and Nation in Galicia: A Cultural History (AHRC Research Fellowship, 2012-2013)
  • Translation in Non-States Cultures: perspectives from Wales (AHRC "Translating Cultures" Research Network, 2012)
  • Centre for Galician Studies - Partnership Agreement for the Teaching and Promotion of the Galician Language, Literature and Culture (2006-present).

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