STAFF AND RESEARCH
Departmental Executive Officer
Ms Caroline Anderson, B.Sc. (Education and Training)
T: + 353 1 896 1257
Ciaran B. Cosgrove, B.A. (Belfast), M.A., Ph.D. (Essex), F.T.C.D
Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Head of Department
Modern Spanish-American prose fiction, with particular reference to the Argentine and Mexican novel. Literary theory and post-colonial studies.
Dr Susana Bayó Belenguer, M.A., Ph.D., MIL, DipTrans (IoL)
Lecturer in Spanish
20th century Spanish literature, history and cinema.
The novels of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
The relationship between history and literature: history through fiction, autobiography, testimonies, memoirs, documentaries, and films. The main historical periods studied are the Spanish Civil War from national and international perspectives, the Franco Era, and the Spanish Transition to Democracy. Translation Theory and Practice.
Dr Katerina García, M.A. (Charles University, Prague), Ph.D. (Charles University, Prague)
Lecturer in Spanish
Hispanic linguistics, especially Spanish and Latin-American Dialectology, the Sociolinguistics of Spanish and Spanish Historical Linguistics. Medieval Spanish Literature. The discussion regarding the phenomenon of the Spain of the Three Cultures, i. e. the interaction of Christians, Muslims and Jews in the fields of art, literature and thought in Medieval Iberia. The history, literature and art of the Jews prior to their expulsion in 1492.
Ciara O'Hagan, B.A. (Belfast), M.A. (Belfast), PGCE (Belfast), Ph.D. (Belfast)
Lecturer in Spanish
Enlightenment Spain and, more especially, the representation of America in eighteenth-century Peninsular literature, with particular reference to epic poetry and the writings of José Cadalso, Pedro Montengón and Manuel José Quintana.
Lecturer in Spanish
Literature of the Golden Age, particularly prose fiction, with special reference to Cervantes and the picaresque. Early modern economic history, theory and practice, the School of Salamanca (Domingo de Soto, Tomás de Mercado) and "arbitrismo" (Martín González de Cellorigo, Gaspar de Pons).
Ms Virginia Segura, B.A. (University of Sevilla), M.Phil. in Literary Translation
Language Tutor
Ms Patricia González, B.A. (University Autónoma of Madrid, UAM), M.Phil. in Literary Translation
Language Tutor
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Dr Nicola Rooney, M.A., Ph.D.
Church History; 20th Century Spanish History; 20th Century Irish History; Basque Studies, Cultural Studies; Peace and Reconciliation.
EMERITUS
Prof Victor Frederick Dixon, M.A. (Dubl., Cantab.), Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.T.C.D., M.R.I.A
Chair of Spanish and Fellow
Golden Age drama, with particular reference to Lope de Vega.
Twentieth-century drama, with particular reference to Buero Vallejo.
The translation and performance of Spanish plays.
Prof Kenneth William John Adams, B.A. (London), M.A. (Dublin, London), F.T.C.D.
Fellow
Literature, 1250-1500. Hispanic linguistics, historical or contemporary, encompassing the Peninsula and its regions and the New World. Teaching and learning of Portuguese in conjunction with previous knowledge of Spanish, and of Spanish with previous knowledge of French.
Prof James F. Whiston, M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D., F.T.C.D., M.R.I.A
Fellow
19th-century Spanish fiction, especially Galdós and Valera. Spanish intellectual life, 1868-1939.
Writings of Antonio Machado during the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939).
Writings of Manuel Azaña.
Dr Grace Magnier, B.A. (NUI), M.A. (NUI), Ph.D. (NUI)
Literature and history of the Golden Age, with particular reference to the Moriscos, History of ideas in the Golden Age, with particular reference to Pedro de Valencia.