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Professor Nuala Finnegan BA (Galway), MA (Dublin), PhD (Glasgow)

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Professor Nuala Finnegan BA (Galway), MA (Dublin), PhD (Glasgow)

         

Conference Contributions

Nuala Finnegan, Ana Cruz Garcia, Niamh McNamara, Catherine Leen, Wilfried Raussert; (2011) This conference explored the notions of transition and continuity as they are articulated in recent Chicano/a culture including drama, film, television, literature, theory, art, music, performance and theatre and other genres and narrative modes including corridos, mitos, folklore. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Transitions and Continuities in Contemporary Chicano/a Culture, Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork , 24-JUN-11 - 26-JUN-11.
Nuala Finnegan; (2006) Lecture on exhibition of works by photographer, Tina Modotti. [Invited Oral Presentation], *Tina Modotti: Meditations on Modernity, Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland , 22-JUN-06 - 22-JUN-06.
Nuala Finnegan; (2005) *. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], (ILAS) Irish Latin American Studies Annual Conference, University College Cork , 18-JUN-05 - 19-JUN-05.
Finnegan, Nuala; Bufacchi, Vittorio; (2004) The Value of Testimony: Philosophical and Literary Approaches. [Oral Presentation], Globalization and Marginality, University College Cork , 26-MAY-04 - 27-MAY-04.
Nuala Finnegan; (2004) Postcolonial Problems: Literature, Feminism and Power in Mexico since 1980. [Invited Oral Presentation], Postcolonialism and Literature, University of Liverpool , 10-NOV-04 - 12-NOV-04.
Nuala Finnegan; (2004) Finding oneself: Love and Tourism in El amor que me juraste by Silvia Molina. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Reflections on Recent Mexican Fiction, University College Cork , 22-JAN-04 - 22-JAN-04.
Nuala Finnegan; (2009) Uncertain Stories: Ethnography, Autobiography and History in New Mexico', `The Transnational Imaginary in Mexican and New Mexican Culture, convened by Dr. Claire Lindsay, University of London. [Oral Presentation], Annual Conference: Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , 07-JUN-09 - 12-JUN-09.
Nuala Finnegan; (2006) Meditations on Modernity: Tina Modotti. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Meditations on Modernity: Tina Modotti, .
Nuala Finnegan; (2004) *. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Postgraduate Research Symposium in Hispanic Studies, University College Cork , 18-NOV-04 - 19-NOV-04.
Nuala Finnegan; (2003) 'Framing the Local, Negotiating the Global: Narrative Encounters in Recent Mexican Cinema'. [Oral Presentation], Hispanic Cinemas: The Local and the Global, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London , 28-NOV-03 - 29-NOV-03.
Nuala Finnegan; (2003) 'Love and tourism in Contemporary Mexican Fiction'. [Plenary Lecture], Irish Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway , 27-MAR-03 - 27-MAR-03.
Nuala Finnegan; (2003) 'In a country like this: Place, Nation and History in Sara Sefchovich's Demasiado amor'. [Oral Presentation], Latin American Studies: Legacies and Possibilities, National University of Ireland, Galway , 18-OCT-03 - 19-OCT-03.
Nuala Finnegan; (2002) Dialogues with the Past: Brianda Domecq and La insolita historia de la Santa de Cabora. [Oral Presentation], Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Annual Conference, UCC , 10-APR-02 - 14-APR-02.
Nuala Finnegan; (2001) Finding 'oneself': Love and Tourism in El amor que me juraste by Silvia Molina. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Sex, Violence, Nation: Reflections on Modern Mexican Fiction, University College Cork , 08-MAY-01 - 08-MAY-01.
Nuala Finnegan; (2000) 'Light Women/Light Literature': Women and Popular Fiction in Mexico since 1980. [Oral Presentation], WISPS (Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies) Annual Conference, University of London , 13-MAY-00 - 15-MAY-00.
Nuala Finnegan; (1999) Problems with Feminism in the Work of Rosario Castellanos. [Oral Presentation], Women's Studies Conference, University of Limerick, University of Limerick , 15-JUN-99 - 16-JUN-99.
Nuala Finnegan; (1999) Isabel Allende and the Importance of Being Feminist in La casa de los espiritus. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin America, University of Limerick , 29-JUN-99 - 02-JUL-99.
Nuala Finnegan; (1998) Dirty Women: Metaphors of Femininity in Some Short Stories by Rosario Castellanos. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Dirty Women: Metaphors of Femininity in Some Short Stories by Rosario Castellanos, .
Nuala Finnegan; (1998) Monstrous Mothers: Representations of Pregnancy and Maternity in some Mexican Women Writers. [Oral Presentation], SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies), Annual Conference, University of Liverpool , 17-APR-98 - 19-APR-98.
Nuala Finnegan; (1998) Researching Women's Writing: Why Bother?. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Researching Women's Writing: Why Bother?, .
Nuala Finnegan; (1997) Feminine Dis-ease in Ciudad Real by Rosario Castellanos. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Feminine Dis-ease in Ciudad Real by Rosario Castellanos, .
Nuala Finnegan; (1996) Greasers, Lovers, Senoritas and Whores: Reflections on the Success of Como agua para chocolate. [Oral Presentation], Culture/History/Society, University of Aberdeen, Scotland , 26-AUG-96 - 28-AUG-96.
Nuala Finnegan; (1996) Gender and Writing in Latin America. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Gender and Writing in Latin America, .
Nuala Finnegan; (1995) The Road to the Centre: Female Space in the Work of Rosario Castellanos. [Oral Presentation], SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies) Annual Conference, University of Wales, Swansea , 24-MAR-95 - 26-MAR-95.
Nuala Finnegan; (1994) La palabra enemiga/The Enemy Word: Discourses of Power in Balun-Canan by Rosario Castellanos. [Oral Presentation], AHGBI (Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland) Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Birmingham , 06-JAN-94 - 08-JAN-94.
           

Reviews

Bulletin Of Latin American Research : Referee.
Bulletin Of Hispanic Studies: Referee.
Journal Of Inter-American Studies: Referee.
Journal Of Iberian And Latin American Studies: Referee.
Journal Of Feminist Research: Referee.
Hispanic Research Journal : Referee.

Other Activities

Visits Abroad



University of New Mexico, Albuquerque



Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Spring 2008

Colby College, Maine, U.S. Visiting Professor, Latin American Studies Spring Semester (Jan - June 2003)

University of Berkeley, California

Visiting Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

1999

University of Texas, Austin Visiting Scholar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 1994

List of Expert Assignments:

External Examiner, Postgraduate Programme in Latin American Studies University of Aberdeen 2008 - present

External Examiner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes, Hispanic Studies University of Birmingham 2007- present

External Examiner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes, Spanish Waterford Institute of Technology 2006- present

External Examiner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes, Spanish Dublin Institute of Technology 2004-2008

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Manchester January 2008

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Canterbury, Kent January 2008

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Nottingham September 2007

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Sheffield January 2007

External Examiner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes, Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies University of Liverpool October 2003-2007

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Durham December 2006

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis Trinity College Dublin October 2002

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Birmingham June 2001

External Examiner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes, Spanish Institute of Technology, Sligo 1999-2002

External Examiner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology 199-2002

External Examiner, Ph.D thesis University of Limerick June 1999

 

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