Staff

People in Spanish & Latin American Studies

Dr Pilar Alderete Diez (pilar.alderete@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2032. HoD; 2BA Coordinator; Coordinator for Outgoing Erasmus Students; FLA Coordinator. Research Interests: Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language; Children’s literature Translation Studies; Identity in Textual and Audiovisual translation (Spanish to English, English to Spanish and interest in Gaeilge); Development of Innovative Teaching and Learning Open Materials for Spanish and for Translation Studies.

Dr. Tamara De Ines Anton (Tamara.DeInesAnton@universityofgalway.ie) 
Lecturer. AMB-2025. Director MA in Translation Studies; Teaching and Learning Committee for the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Research Interests:  Sociology of Translation, Central American Literature, Translation Anthologies, Feminist Translation, Translation of Testimonio and other forms of Life Writing, Gender Identity in Literary and Audiovisual Translation, Translation Pedagogy.

Dr. Monika Jurkiewicz (monika.jurkiewicz@universityofgalway.ie) Lecturer. TBA. Coordinator for Outgoing Erasmus Students. Research Interests: Exploring contemporary Argentine crime fiction as a form of social critique, with a focus on the intersections between crime literature, representations of violence, systemic power and feminism.

Dr Lorraine Kelly (lorraine.kelly@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2009. Coordinator for Spanish Beginners 1BA. Research Interests: Latin American Literature, specifically women writers. Gender studies in a Latin American context.

Dr Ivan Kenny  (ivan.kenny@universityofgalway.ie) (on sabbatical 26.27)
Lecturer. AMB-2016.; Academic Integrity Advisor for the SLLC; Chair of the Teaching & Learning Committee. Research Interests: Mid-twentieth century Mexican cultural production with a particular emphasis on spatiality and humour in the works of Luis Buñuel and Juan Rulfo. I am also interested in the spatial dimension of Julio Cortázar's short fiction.

Dr Kate Quinn (kate.quinn@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2008. MA Coordinator; 4BA Coordinator, Academic Integrity Advisor for Spanish, EDI Committee for the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Research Interests: Latin American historical fiction (especially that dealing with the legacy of colonial encounters, and the establishment of the modern nations). Spanish-language crime narrative. Comparative studies in the crime genre. Chilean history, politics, and culture.

Dr. Rachel Robinson (rachel.robinson@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2004. CÉIM Academic Lead; Coordinator for Intermediate Spanish 1BA & 1 BComm Students; Director of the Research Committee for the School of Languages Literatures and Cultures. Research Interests: Latin American 20th- and 21st-century experimental poetry, as well as its relationship to trends in global avant-garde and conceptual writing; object-oriented ontology and new materialism; ecocriticism; visual and sound poetry; Southern Cone poetry and politics.

Begoña Sangrador-Vegas (begona.sangrador-vegas@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2017. Coordinator of Spanish for BComm Int and B Law & Business (on sabbatical 25.26). Research Interests: Economic and social issues in contemporary Spain. Basque identity, culture and politics. Translation.

Deva Gómez. Foreign Language Assistant. AMB-2046.

Alicia Recio Mudarra. Foreign Language Assistant. AMB-2046. 

Manuel Zamora. Foreign Language Assistant. AMB-2046.