Biography
Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié (BA, MA, PGCTL, PhD) joined the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies in 2021 as Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Intercultural Communication and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications. Before joining TCD, she taught in the Universitat de Girona and University College Cork, where she also led interdisciplinary research at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI) and the Environmental Research Institute. Dr Jerez Columbié received her BA and MA from the Universitat de Girona after studying at the Universidad de La Habana, and obtained her PhD from University College Cork for a dissertation on cultural theories emerging from journalistic, philosophical, artistic and legal texts intertwined with nation-making processes in Latin America and Europe.
A published poet and interdisciplinary researcher, she brings to TCD her experience in designing and undertaking research and teaching that connects artists, intellectuals, scientists, communities, and policymakers to support equity, diversity and inclusion in knowledge-making processes, international partnerships and the fair public uptake and use of science and technology.
Dr Jerez Columbié welcomes PhD and Master proposals in any area of twenty-first, twentieth and nineteenth century Latin American and Caribbean Studies, as well as Transatlantic Hispanic and Catalan Studies. She is interested in supervising and co-supervising interdisciplinary projects at the intersections between Cultural and Media Studies, New World Philosophies and Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Nyhan, M., O'Dwyer, B. and Jerez Columbié, Y., Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Informing Participatory Frameworks for the National Dialogue on Climate Action (C-CHANGE), Environmental Protection Agency, 2022, p1 - 45
Introduction: Can the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and Agenda 2030 Provide a Path Towards Societal Resilience? in, editor(s)Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer, Barry , Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas, 2022, pp1 - 19, [Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer, Barry]
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Language, Performance, Memory and Transculturation in the Jocs Florals Catalans of Cuba, Journal of Catalans Studies, 1, (23), 2022, p55 - 81
Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer Barry, Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 1 - 257pp
Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals in, editor(s)Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer, Barry , Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2022, pp183 - 203, [Jerez Columbié, Yairen]
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, People of the Mangrove: A lens into socioecological interactions in the Ecuadorian Black Pacific, eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021, p74 - 94
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History, 1st, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2021
The Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research Report Series This publication can be quoted as: Máñez Costa, M.; Oen, A.M.P.; Neset, T.-S.; Celliers, L.; Suhari, M; Huang-Lachmann, J-T.; Pimentel, R.; Blair, B.; Jeuring, J.; Rodriguez-Camino, E.; Photiadou, C.; Jerez Columbié, Y.; Gao, C.; Tudose, N.-C.; Cheval, S., Votsis, A.; West, J.; Lee, K.; Shaffrey, L.C.; Auer, C.; Hoff, H.; Menke, I.; Walton, P.; Schuck-Zöller, S. , Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects (2017-2021), CSPR Report Series, No 2021:2, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, 2021, p1 - 56
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Sketches of Black People by White Catalan-Cuban Intellectuals: Transculturation in Fernando Ortiz's and Jaume Valls's Afrocubanismo in 1920s Havana, Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal, 16, (2), 2020
Jerez Columbié, Yairen and Morrissey, John, Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2020, p1--20
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Prudenci Bertrana, periodista a Barcelona, escriptor-periodista a L'Havana (1919-20) (Prudenci Bertrana, journalist in Barcelona, journalist-writer in Havana (1919-20)), Journal of Catalan Studies, 2, (21), 2019, p219--237
José Martí, The Literary Encyclopedia, 4.1.3, 2018, pp2 , [Jerez Columbié, Yairen]
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, 'Munster Landscape', 2018, 71 - 71
Fernando Ortiz, The Literary Encyclopedia, 4.1.3, 2018, pp2 , [Jerez Columbié, Yairen]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Right Words, an Evening of Poetry and Prose, curated by poet Matthew Geden, Words by Water Festival, Kinsale, 2022
Jerez Columbie, Yairen, 'Eclipse Anular', Altavoz Cultural, 2022, -
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Poetry Reading, Poetry reading at the book launch of Temporary Stasis by Lucy Holme, L'Atitude 51, Cork, 14 September, 2022
Jerez Columbié, Yairen; Basombrío Hoban, Isabella and Finnegan, Nuala, Latin American and Caribbean Literary Voices in Ireland, Poetry Performance and Talk, Latin American and Caribbean Literary Voices in Ireland, University College Cork, 15 November, 2022, and Society for Irish and Latin American Studies and Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of University College Cork
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Poetry reading, 10th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival, Nano Nagle Place, Cork City, 25 November, 2022, 10th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival
Jerez Columbié, Hurricane Culture: Interrogating and decolonising climate resilience through Caribbean knowledge and practices, Deconstructing Disaster/Reconsidering Relief: Coping with Catastrophe Past and Present in Latin America and the Caribbean, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 19-20 October 2022, 2022
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Fósiles de Lluvia [Fossil Rain], Book Launch, Poetry reading with poets Matthew Geden, Lucy Holme and Mary Noonan at the book launch of Fósiles de lluvia [Fossil Rain], Meade"s Bar, Cork, 2022
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Fósiles de Lluvia, Betania, 2022, 1 - 75pp
Jerez Columbie, Yairen, 'Keloid & Over a Map of the Atlantic', Anthropocene, 2022, -
Aldarra, Suad; Bendek, Cristina; Millares, Selena; and Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Journeys of Discovery, Festival Isla, Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, 14 October, 2022
Jerez Columbié, Y, 'Moonrise', The Poetry Review, Autumn 2022, United Kingdom, The Poetry Society, 2022, 57 - 57
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Facilitation of the Workshop `Intercultural Connections in Eco-Poetry', 10th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival, Cork City Library, 25 November, 2022, Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival and Cork City Library
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Waste Lands: Imagining Climate Catastrophe, `Behind the Headlines. Waste Lands: Imagining Climate Catastrophe', Trinity Long Room Hub, 10 November, 2022
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, 'Cuatro poemas de Yairen Jerez Columbié', New York, Revista Temporales, MFA de Escritura Creativa en Español de New York University, 2022, -
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Green Hispanisms and the decolonisation of environmental studies, Green Hispanisms Conference, Swansea University, 7 July 2021, 2021
Jerez Columbié, Yairen; Hogan, Padraig; Nyhan, Marguerite; O'Dwyer, Barry, Climate empowerment and participation in Ireland: lessons learned from the National Dialogue on Climate Action, Environ 2021, University College Cork, edited by 17 June 2021 , 2021
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Facing climate change in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Ireland through hurricane culture, Society of Irish and Latin American Studies Conference 2019 Comparisons, Conflicts, and Connections: Ireland and Latin America in the Past, Present, and Future, Trinity College Dublin, 23-26 April 2019, 2019
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Marvelous real ecologies: uses of coral reefs in written representations of Caribbean socioecological systems, Planet Ocean Interdisciplinary Workshop, Dublin City University, 21 September 2019, 2019
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Fernando Ortiz's counterpoint: between the idea of rhizomatic transcultural identities and narratives of national identities, Conference Colóquio Internacional Os Estudos Ibéricos a Partir da Periferia, Universidade de Lisboa, 9 March 2018, 2018
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Transcultural realities versus nationalist narratives in the activism of the Catalanists of Havana and the construction of the idea of Cubaness (1908-1959), Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) Seminar, University College Cork, 29 November, 2018
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Languages, transculturation and performance in the Jocs Florals of Havana, Conference (Dis)articulating Identities: Multilingualism in the Catalan Countries, MEITS AHRC project, University of Cambridge, edited by 19-20 January 2018 , 2018
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Sketches of Black People in the Catalan-Cuban journal La Nova Catalunya, Conference Line, Word and Gesture: Visualising Thinking in the Hispanic World, University of Birmingham, 15-16 September 2016, 2016
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, The Other Senses, a Caribbean version of Maragall's poetics, Conference Re-encountering the Canon: Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia, University College Cork, 23-24 September 2016, 2016
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, 'La unitat didàctica d'estudis culturals catalans a l'exterior i la formació de nous investigadors: El cas de l'estudi de la presència intel·lectual catalana a Cuba' [The Catalan Cultural Studies didactic unit and the formation of new researchers]. The case study of the Catalan intellectual community in Cuba], 30 Jornades Internacionals per a Professors de Català de l'Institut Ramon Llull de Barcelona, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 20 July, 2016
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Language, identity and ideology in Josep Conangla's Cuban Catalanism, Annual Anglo-Catalan Society Conference, University of Leeds, 11-13 November 2016, 2016
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, La unitat didàctica d'estudis catalans com a espai de difusió de la recerca: el cas de l'estudi de la presència intel·lectual catalana a Cuba' [Research as an educational component: the case of study of the Catalan intellectuals of Cuba], Workshop for UK & Ireland based Catalan tutors, University of Bristol, 6 October 2015, 2015
Research Expertise
Description
Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié works at the intersection between Cultural Studies, Communication and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. Her publications investigate intercultural communication, fluid identities, cultural translation, decolonial ecologies and eco-criticism in diverse countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Catalonia and Ireland. She led interdisciplinary research at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI) to inform Irish and European environmental policies. Her current research focuses on the role of Latin American and Caribbean epistemologies in communicating climate change and shaping global responses to environmental challenges. Dr Jerez Columbié brings to TCD her experience in designing and undertaking research that connects artists, intellectuals, scientists, communities and policymakers to support equity, diversity and inclusion in knowledge-making processes. Her research interests include although are not limited to: Intercultural Communication; Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism; Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies; Ecofeminism; Critical Theory and New World Philosophies; Postcolonial Intellectual History; Migration, Diaspora and Exile; Creative Nonfiction and Ecopoetry.Recognition
Awards and Honours
Environmental Protection Agency, project 'Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Longitudinal Analysis for Informing Participatory Frameworks in the NDCA' (C-CHANGE) (2020-2021) (With Dr Marguerite Nyhan and Dr Barry O'Dwyer) (100,000)
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund, Trinity College Dublin (1,500)
Trinity Association and Trust (1,500)