Curriculum Vitae

CV revised 20 January 2006

DEGREES

Licenciada en Filología Inglesa: (B.A in English) University of La Sorbonne, 1973.
Curso de Estudios Hispánicos (Hispanic Studies), University Complutense, Madrid, 1975.
Maîtrise in English, (M. A in English)  University of La Sorbonne, 1978
Licenciada en Filología Inglesa: (B.A in English) University of M.A in English, University of  Zaragoza, 1985
Doctor en Filología Inglesa (Ph.D. in English), University of Zaragoza, 1987.
 
 
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 
Current position: Profesor Titular de Filología Inglesa: Estudios Culturales (Permanent lecturer in British Culture and Cultural Studies), University of Zaragoza
 
Undergraduate courses taught: 
Historia y Cultura de los Países de Habla Inglesa (History and Culture of English-Speaking Countries), Literatura, Cultura y Sociedad (Literature, Culture and Society), Prácticas de Lengua Inglesa   (Oral English),  engua Inglesa (English Language).
 
Graduate Courses taught: 
Comedy and Cultural Belonging; History; Identity and Representation: the Celtic Fringe; History; Identity and Representation; British Heritage Cinema of the 80s: Nostalgia or Appropriation of the Past?; Resisting the Conventional. Contemporary British Women's Drama:Women, Text, Theatre; British Women's Drama in the 80s; Gender and Subjectivity. Theory and Practice; Feminism: Evolution and Development; Narratives of Subordination; Working-Class Movements in the Victorian Novel;  James Joyce's Oeuvre;  Yeats; The Victorian Novel.
 
Previous teaching experience:
Profesor Titular de Filología Inglesa (Permanent Lecturer), University of Zaragoza
Profesor Interino, colaborador y encargado de curso (Lecturer), University of Zaragoza
Profesor colaborador de Inglés, Colegio Universitario de Soria
Lector de Inglés, Colegio Universitario de Soria
 
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Culture and politics, cultural studies, British cinema, comedy, gender; film and literature; film as narrative
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Books
Culture and Power, co-edited with Felicity Hand. Barcelona: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 1995.

Gender, I-deology; Essays on Theory, Fiction and Film, co-edited with José-Angel García Landa. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.

Culture and Power: Cultural Confrontations. Zaragoza: Libreria Central, 1999.

Culture and Power: Business, co-edited with Rosa González and Felicity Hand. Zaragoza: Librería Central, 1999.

Culture and Power: Culture and society in the age of globalisation. Zaragoza: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2005.
La era Thatcher en la pantalla: ¿cine nacional o "nacionalista"? Zaragoza: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, forthcoming

Articles and book chapters

"Merchant and Ivory's Howards End (1992): how heritage speaks to contemporary political and ideological concerns," Genre: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts: Film,Ideology and Culture,(forthcoming)

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain": Insights and Imperatives on the practice of cultural studies in the Spanish University, Cultural Studies, 2005, vol. 19, 318-337

"Culture and society in the age of globalisation: a process, a  theme, a book and a stance," Culture and Power: Culture and Society in the age of globalisation, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2005, 13-23

"Globalisation from Down Below:  Unemployment and Damaged Masculinities in The Full Monty (1997) and Mondays in the Sun  (2002),"Studies in European Cinema, 2005, vol. 2, nº 2, 125-135

"Iconography and Ideology in 20^th-century Filmic Adaptations of Dickens' Novels," Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film, Constanza del Río and Luis Miguel García Mainar, eds., Heidelberg: CUniversitätverlag Winter, 2004, 145-160.

"Everything you always hated about Thatcher's Britain: A cultural analysis of Mike Leigh's High Hopes (1988)," Miscelanea, 2004, vol.28, 145-160

"Letting a man open the door for you and then slamming it in his face." Changing gender relations in British situation comedies of the eighties and nineties, Culture and Power: Media, Fernando Galván y Julio Cañero, eds, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 2003, 59-73

"Laughter can be about Power: The World of Women's Magazines inAbsolutely Fabulous," Culture and Power: Acknowledging Cultural Studies in Spain, David Walton and Dagmar Scheu eds, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2002, 111-131

"Forget Your Troubles and Be Happy" : una aproximación etnográfica a la ideología del entretenimiento en el cine estadounidense contemporáneo co-written with Celestino Deleyto Alcalá, Luis Miguel García Mainar, Juan A. Tarancón, Virginia Luzón Aguado, Mónica Stacconi, María del Mar Azcona, Atlantis, 24.2 (December 2002), 59-72.

"Madonna: Rocking Around the Money and/or Towards an Erotic Politics of the Female Body," Popular Texts in English: New Perspectives, 2001, 43-55

"Does Cultural Studies Exist in Spain?" The European English Messenger,2001, vol. X/2, 15-18

"Absolutely Fabulous: Money Makes the World Go Round or a Politicised Notion of Fulfilment," Culture and Power: Challenging Discourses, Mª José Coperías ed., Servei de Publicacions Universitat de València, 2000, 59-71

"Caryl Churchill's Serious Money: A Festive Turning Loose of Greed," Culture and Power: Business, Matilde Paredes, Rosa González, Felicity Hand, Chantal Cornut-Gentille eds., Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1999,  19-37

"Cultural Studies or the Study of British Cultures: the Personal, the Political and the Academic," European Journal for the Study of British Cultures: European Perspectives, 1999, vol.6, 71-86 

"Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss': The Rare Fiddle as Emblem of the Political and Sexual Alienation of Woman," Papers on Language and Literature,1999, vol. 35, 244-270

"Gender Implications and Political Undertones in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Lover," Literature/Film Quarterly, 1999, vol.27, 116-125

"Working Girl: A Case of Achievement by Women? New Opportunities, Old Realities," Terms of Endearment, Peter Evans & Celestino Deleyto, eds., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 111-128

"Wicked Witches were invented by Frightened Men," Cuadernos de Filología inglesa: Culture and Communication, 1998, 5-17

"Who's Afraid of the Femme Fatale in Breakfast at Tiffany's? Exposure and Implications of a Myth," Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and Film, Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy & José Angel García Landa, eds., Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1996, 371-385

"Sue Townsend's The Queen and I: A Royalist Extravaganza with Serious Intentions," Culture and Power: Institutions, Rosa González Casademont, ed., Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad Central de Barcelona, 1996, 95-109

"Thatcherism: Moralist Themes and Victorian Values," Actas XIX Congreso AEDEAN, 1996, 195-201

"The Personal is Political in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls: a Parable for Thatcher's Britain, Essays on History and Literature in English, Susana Onega ed., Amsterdam and New York:  Rodopi, 1995, 103-115 

"Mary Wolllstonecraft as Generator of Differing Feminist Trends," Links and Letters, vol.: 2, 1995,            47-61 

"The Hidden Gender of Money in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Pretty Woman," Género y sexo en el discurso artístico, José Luis Caramés y Santiago González, eds., Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, 1995, 197-213

"What do we mean by Culture? Overview of Main Concepts and Ideas," Culture and Power, Felicity Hand & Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, eds.,  Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 1995,  1-17

"Culture and Power: A Cultural Account of the Difficult Position of Cultura in the Spanish Curricula," Culture and Power, Felicity Hand & Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, eds., Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 1995, 39-53

"Margaret Thatcher: dos facetas del poder de una mujer," Estudios sobre la Mujer. Marginación y Desigualdad, Mª José Jiménez Tomé y Encarnación Barranquero Texeira, eds., Málaga, Atenea, 1994, 119-139

"Landscape Drawing and Design in Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract. Peepholes to an Age," Miscelánea, vol. 14, 1993, 1-25

"Margaret Thatcher and the EEC: Britain as the Odd one Out," Actas XVII Congreso AEDEAN, 1993

"Preliminaries to the Poor Law Amendmen Act. Signs of the times or the Population Question in Harriet Martineau's tale: Weal and Woe in Garveloch," Les Cahiers de L'Observatoire. Pauvreté, culture et action  des collectivités locales, Grenoble, 1992, vol.5, 7-20 

"Fictive and Compositional time in Charlotte Bronte's Novel Shirley," STUDIVM, 1992, 181-197 

"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and Eighteenth Century English Thinking: Intellectual Controversy as regards the happiness of the People," Actas XVI Congreso AEDEAN, 1992, 171-177

"Science versus Literature? A View of C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures," Science, Literature and other interpretation: Essays on Twentieth-Century and Critical Theory,   Francisco Collado, ed., Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1991, 61-73 

"Margaret Thatcher: Quips and Witticisms on and about Female Leadership," Actas XV Congreso AEDEAN, 1991, 213-221

"Hard Times: 'Mechanism' in the Classroom or Dicken's Appraisal of Utilitarian Pedagogical Principles in Schools for the Wokring-Class," STUDIVM, vol.7, 1990,  107-125

"War of Words. A Historical and Rhetorical Analysis of Political and Literary Texts in the English 1830s and 1840s," Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 1990,  123-135 http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/monografia?clave_monografia=436

"Books, Pens and Pencils: The Trials of a Victorian Youth," Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 2, 1989, 21-29

"The Ominous Problem of the Two Nations: Two Solutions for the Regeneration of Society: Disraeli's Sybil and Carlyle's Chartism," Miscelánea, vol.: 10, 1989, 5-16 

"An Approach to a System for the Relief of the Poor Booth in England and Spain: Cross Cultural Perspectives," Revista de Investigación del Colegio Universitario de Soria,  vol.9, 1988, 73-82

"Oliver Twist. An Irreclaimable Wretch," Miscelánea, vol.: 8, 1987, 123-134