Dr Leticia Villamediana Gonzalez

About

I'm an Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies and I joined Warwick and SMLC in 2014. Before coming to Warwick, I taught at Queen's University, Belfast, where I completed my Doctoral Studies. During my time at Warwick, I've been teaching a wide range of modules at different levels and I've had multiple admin roles. I'm also an Alumni Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy and Senior Fellow of HEA. I was awarded a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence in 2021 and a Warwick Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence in 2025.

Teaching and Research Interests

My main teaching interests centre on modern Spanish literature, particularly on women’s writing from the eighteenth century onward, as well as on modern and contemporary Spanish politics and culture. I am also engaged in the pedagogy of Spanish as a second language and in the design of inclusive and diverse curricula.

My research interests focus on 18th and 19th-Century Spanish literature and culture, from the perspective of Anglo-Spanish relations, with a particular interest in the periodical press and women's writings. I'm currently preparing an edited anthology of translated texts written by 18th-Century Spanish women writers.

Previous projects:

'Approaches to Teaching the #EarlyModernHispanicWorld to 21st-Century Students'.

'Decolonising Babel': Multilingual and Inclusive Language Pedagogies at Warwick and Beyond'Link opens in a new window 

LHIBRO: Hispanic Literature in the British Romantic Periodical Press (1802-1832): Appropriating and Rewriting the Canon. Link opens in a new window

Scholarship and Teaching & Learning:

• I'm co-directing the ELE-UKLink opens in a new window SIG 'Grupo Especial para la Descolonización del Currículum de Español de ELEUKLink opens in a new window'.
• I'm collaborating in the Exploratory Pedagogic InquiryLink opens in a new window (EPI) project with other Warwick colleagues from other faculties.
• I'm also interested in developing and cultivating SoTL communities.

Publications

Co-edited volume: ELEUK en acción: reflexiones pedagógicas e investigadorasLink opens in a new window (Centro Virtual Cervantes, 2024)

'Approaches to Teaching the #EarlyModernHispanicWorld to 21st-Century Students'Link opens in a new window, University Council for Languages, Small Grant Report, 2024.

'Bosquejos de Andalucía en la prensa británica del siglo XIX: del discurso romántico al discurso colonial', in Andalucía y lo andaluz en los siglos XVIII y XIX: representación, crítica y creación de estereotipos, ed. by Daniel Muñoz Sempere and Breatriz Sánchez Hita (Peter Lang, 2023).

“A distinguished place in the Temple of the Muses”. Tomás de Iriarte’s Fables in the British Romantic Press (1795–1820), in British periodicals and Spanish Literature. Mapping the Romantic Canon Link opens in a new window(Peter-Lang, 2022)

'La literatura comparada y sus aplicaciones didácticas en clase de ELE', in Literatura y ELE: miradas desde los estudios literarios y culturales, ed. by Ana Peñas Ruiz (Madrid: EnClave-ELE, 2021)

Anglomanía: la imagen de Inglaterra en la prensa española del siglo XVIIILink opens in a new window (Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2019)

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere: from the Enlightenment to the indignados Link opens in a new window(New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019)

'La librería Orcel: un negocio europeo en el Madrid del setecientos', Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo. Revista digital del Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, nº 24 (2018), 339-71.

«Prescription for Scolding Wives»: Esposas gruñonas y transgresoras en la prensa inglesa y española del siglo XVIII», Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo. Revista digital del Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, nº 22 (2016), 57-78. ISSN: 2173-0687

'Semblanza de Marcelino Calero y Portocarrero (Badajoz, 1778-Madrid, 1838)', in Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED (Alicante, 2016)

'Publicación y censura de los Discursos mercuriales, primer periódico español de economía política', Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, 38 (2015), 291-318

'La anglomanía en la prensa periódica española de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII', in Hacia 1812, desde el siglo ilustrado. Actas del V Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, ed. by Fernando Durán López (Gijón: Trea, 2013), pp. 197-210

'La Estafeta de Londres de Francisco Mariano Nifo, otro precedente de las Cartas Marruecas de Cadalso', Cuadernos de estudios del siglo XVIII, 22 (2012), 165-78

"Comencemos á conocer á una Nacion, que tanto nos importa tenerla à raya.' El fenómeno de la emulación en la Estafeta de Londres (1762) de Francisco Mariano Nifo', in La tinta en la clepsidra. Fuentes, historia y tradición en la literatura hispánica, ed. by Sónia Boadas, Félix Ernesto Chávez and Daniel García Vicens (Barcelona: PPU, 2012), pp. 187-98

Qualifications

Instituto Cervantes DELE Examiner, 2014

PhD in Hispanic Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 2013

MA in Hispanic Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 2009

MA in Interculturalidad en textos y contextos de ámbito occidental, University of Valladolid, 2008

BA (Hons) in English Philology, University of Valladolid, 2006