THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Contagion and Containment’s conference committee is made up of graduate students of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium:
David Bailey
[email protected] 2nd-year doctoral student researching deviant sexual practices in the work of Naturalist authors from Portugal and Brazil. |
Lucy Bollington
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2nd-year doctoral student examining the intersections of necropolitics and impairment in contemporary Mexican culture. She has strong interests in political philosophy, the medical humanities, 'crip' theory and posthumanism.
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2nd-year doctoral student examining the intersections of necropolitics and impairment in contemporary Mexican culture. She has strong interests in political philosophy, the medical humanities, 'crip' theory and posthumanism.
Liliana Chávez-Díaz
[email protected] 3rd-year doctoral student examining the relationship between journalism and the crisis of truth in contemporary Latin American literature. |
Dunja Fehimovic
[email protected] Dunja completed her doctoral thesis December 2015 on the articulations and reinterpretations of national identity, production processes and afterlives in Cuban films released since 2000. |
Rebecca Fell
[email protected] 1st-year doctoral student looking at the role of ‘gossip’ in late-19th-century and early-20th-century Hispanic literature. |
Ran Huo
[email protected] 1st-year doctoral student working on women's education in the early modern period, with a focus on Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532-1625), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1568-1614). |
Hazel Robins
[email protected] 2nd-year doctoral student researching re-negotiations of Portuguese national identity through presentations of British immigrants in 19th-century Portuguese literature. |
Natasha Tanna
[email protected] 3rd-year doctoral student examining the connections between desire, sexuality, and transnational subjectivity in writing by women in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Barcelona from the 1960s to the present day. |
Sandra Velásquez-Alford
[email protected] 3rd-year doctoral student exploring comparative analysis of literary reinterpretation of historical topics in Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) and Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012). |
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