Dr. Catherine Barbour
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies
Biography
Dr Catherine Barbour joined Trinity as Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies in January 2022. She was previously Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Surrey (2018-2021), and also held posts at Queen's University Belfast (2018) and the University of St Andrews (2016-2017), where she was awarded her PhD in 2016. In 2018, she was Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS, formerly IMLR), School of Advanced Study, University of London on the Open World Research Initiative Translingual Strand 'Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community'.
Dr Barbour specialises in contemporary Iberian (especially Galician) literary and cultural studies, with a focus on representations of gender, migration and translingualism in literature and visual culture. She also has keen interests in comparative literature and multilingual education. Her publications include the monograph Contemporary Galician Women Writers, published by Legenda in 2020, and she is currently working on her second book project on translingual feminisms in Iberian cultural production.
She leads the multidisciplinary research network 'Women's (Im)Mobility in Times of Crisis', a collaboration with the University of São Paulo and the University of Surrey funded by the University Global Partnership Network that investigates the impact of 'crises' on mobility and gender equality.
Dr Barbour is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and in 2019 was awarded the University of Surrey Vice Chancellor's Award for Early Career Teacher of the Year.
She welcomes PhD proposals relating to any of her areas of interest, especially on topics focusing on gender, migration and minority cultures.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Land, Art and Activism in Galician Writing by Women: Teresa Moure's A intervención (2010) in, editor(s)Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex , Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, Cambridge, Legenda - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023, [Catherine Barbour]
International Journal of Iberian Studies, 35, 3, (2022), Catherine Barbour and Danny Barreto, [eds.]
Catherine Barbour, Of Monsters and Women: Feminist Response to Gender-based Violence in Galician Noir, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 35, (3), 2022, p271 - 291
Catherine Barbour and Danny Barreto, Feminisms at Work: The (Re)Production of Gender and Culture in Contemporary Galicia, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 35, (3), 2022, p225 - 232
Catherine Barbour, Translingual Empowerment: Exophonic Women's Writing in Catalan and Spanish, Parallax, 28, (1), 2022
María Alonso Alonso and Catherine Barbour, Galicia on the Move, Journal of Romance Studies, 20, (3), 2020, p395-407
Catherine Barbour and Karina Lickorish Quinn, Los pájaros are feliz and are dreaming about gwiazdy: Facilitating Translingual Creative Writing in the Primary Classroom, English in Education, 54, (1), 2020, p6 - 26
Journal of Romance Studies, 20, 3, (2020), 395 - 549p, María Alonso Alonso, Catherine Barbour and Gustavo San Román, [eds.]
Catherine Barbour, Contemporary Galician Women Writers, Cambridge, Legenda - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020, 1 - 146pp
Catherine Barbour, Staking a Claim: Dispute, Displacement and Galician Identity in Marta Rivera de la Cruz's Hotel Almirante (2002), Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96, (6), 2019, p993 - 1014
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Catherine Barbour, Galician Women Writers: Language, Politics, Identity, 2023, -
Catherine Barbour, Author Pages - Teresa Moure, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, 2022, -
Catherine Barbour, Review of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism, by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian (eds.) , Journal of Specialised Translation, 36, 2021, p351-355
Catherine Barbour and Karina Lickorish Quinn, Making Space for Multilingual Creativity, 2019, - 50
Catherine Barbour, Review of Canon y subversión. La obra narrativa de Rosalía de Castro, by Helena González Fernández and María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar (eds.) , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 92, (4), 2015, p624-625
Catherine Barbour, Review of Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: Between the Local and the Global, by Kirsty Hooper and Manuel Puga Moruxa (eds.) , Forum for Modern Language Studies, 49, (3), 2013, p347-348
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
Elected member of the executive committee of the Modern Language Association Galician Forum (2020-2024)
Awards and Honours
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Vice Chancellor's Award for Early Career Teacher of the Year, University of Surrey