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Dr Catriona McAllister

Catriona Mcallister portrait
School Director Teaching & Learning (SDTL)

Office

Miller 130

Building location

Miller building

Areas of interest

My research focuses on Argentine literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on ideas of nationhood and relationships between history and literature. I am currently working on the representation of historical narratives in Argentine museums and the representation of history in cultural production for children. I have also collaborated with Red Puna, an organisation that brings together multiple indigenous communities in the north-west of Argentina.

I have published a monograph on rewritings of independence in contemporary Argentine literature, exploring the relationship between history, politics and literature in a corpus of six texts. I have also written on literary representations of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict within Argentina.

I am on the committee of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Latin American and the Caribbean research network () and am co-Treasurer for the national . I am an Associate Editor for the Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies.

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.

Completed supervisions:

  • Emma Jackson (Department of Languages and Cultures): The Use of Objects in the Construction, Expression and Negotiation of Identities: A Case Study of Maya Dolls from Mexico and Guatemala (March 2020)
  • Jeff Gonzalez (Department of Languages and Cultures): Globalization in the Lukumi Orisha Diaspora (2023) 
  • Begoña Garrido (Department of Languages and Cultures): Were all Basque women ‘La Pasionaria’? Negotiating gendered spaces in working-class Basque women’s testimonies of Bizkaia, under Franco (1937-1949) (2024)  

Teaching

I teach a variety of topics relating to the Spanish-speaking world.

Academic qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PhD in Latin American Studies (Cambridge)
  • MA in Latin American Studies (Salamanca)
  • BA (Hons) in Modern Languages (Oxford)

Publications

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