About me
I am a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the School of Humanities.
I teach Spanish language, twentieth and twenty-first century culture from Spain and Latin America, film studies, visual culture, and the Final Year Project. My current research focuses on gender and ageing in contemporary Central American cinema, while my past research projects have analysed identity and nationhood in Costa Rican literature and film.
Teaching
I teach both cultural studies and language modules at all undergraduate levels, including film, literature, and practice-based language use. I teach and supervise the final year dissertation module as well as supervising MA, MRes and PhD dissertations in my fields of research.
Research
My current research project focuses on gender and ageing in contemporary Central American cinema, considering how directors portray a variety of 'ways of being' which break with traditional heteropatriarchal models. It considers films which seek to subvert binary concepts of gender and age, showcasing the multiplicity of ways in which these ideas are individually and communally constructed in filmmaking from the region.
My previous research projects focused on the theme of national identity in Costa Rica and how literature and films have been used as cultural protest to highlight counterhegemonic representations of the nation.
I am Co-Editor of Screen Arts for the publication Hispanic Research Journal, overseeing articles on Latin American cinema and managing the peer review process. I am peer reviewer for a number of other publications and a member of SLAS, the AHGBI, and WISPS.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.