Dr Fabienne Viala will deliver a paper, 'Sabotage, commemoration and performance: The Black Jacobins and Maryse Condé's An Tan Revolysion', at the conference The Black Jacobins Revisited, International Slavery Museum / The Bluecoat, Liverpool, 27-28 October 2013.

Conference Website.

Dr Kirsty Hooper, Hispanic Studies

Dr Hooper is writing up a book called The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession, which explores the early 20th-century boom in British interest in Spain. The book considers academic and cultural scholarship, art and museums, travel and tourism, popular fiction, and the illustrated press, all of which brought ordinary people into closer contact with Spain and its culture than ever before. You can read more about the project on the Leverhulme Trust website.

In May 2013 she spent a day filming in Madrid with Michael Portillo, for the new series of 'Great Continental Journeys' and was very excited to walk down the aisle at Los Jerónimos church with Señor Portillo.

Dr Fabienne Viala

Dr Viala is finishing a book entitled Post-Columbus Syndrome: Cultural Nationalisms and Commemorations in the Hispanic, French and English Caribbean, which analyses representations of Christopher Columbus in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinque and Jamaica at the time of the 1992 anniversary.

Dr Clemencia Rodas-Perez, Hispanic Studies

Dr Rodas-Perez is researching written corrective feedback on written work in the process of second language acquisition.

Her work is initially focused on three European languages, from which she expects to identify the practices, opinions and perceptions of Language tutors and their students.

Dr Christabelle Peters, Hispanic Studies

Dr Peters is developing a book project that examines the interconnection between race and national identity in Angola.

Her current research is a critical comparative study on the impact of a range of social discourses on anti-colonial and post-colonial projects in the Iberian Atlantic, particularly in Angola, Brazil and Cuba.

Dr Santiago Oyarzabal, Hispanic Studies

Dr Oyarzabal is currently co-editing a book called 'World Film Locations: Buenos Aires' which includes a trip to the Argentine capital to discover and photograph locations for iconic films such as 'Nueve reinas' or 'El secreto de sus ojos'.

He is also writing on Argentine film star Ricardo Darin, and is preparing a book proposal to publish his PhD thesis, which investigates representations of crisis in recent Argentine films.

Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

Professor Ribeiro de Menezes is starting to research the topic of global circulations of cultural memory debates in the Luso-Hispanic world. Her research took her to Lisbon, Portugal in July and to Derry, Northern Ireland, in Autumn 2013.

Dr Kirsty Hooper

This project aims to uncover the traces of Liverpool’s role as a hub in the 19th-century networks that connected Spain and Portugal with Latin America. The core of the project is a database of some 2000 19th-century Liverpool residents born in the Luso-Hispanic world; another part of the project aims to trace and record the locations where Hispanic Liverpudlians lived and worked, many of which have already disappeared, or exist only as ruins.

Dr Kirsty Hooper

Literary histories of Spain give the impression that women writers disappeared entirely from cultural and intellectual life in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, but there is evidence that hundreds of women were reading, writing, publishing and commentating in Spain on issues of individual, social, local, and national interest during the first decades of the 20th century. The goal of this project is to track down, recover, collect and analyse bio-bibliographical information about women writers in Spain during the first decades of the 20th century: the project database currently contains over 500 women writers, 1,600 works and 180 translations from the period 1890-1936.

Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Hispanic Studies has finished a book entitled 'Embodying Memory in Spain', discussing contemporary debates on the legacies of the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship