Pedro Nilsson-Fernández

I am a University Language Teacher and researcher at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, where I completed my PhD: Mapping the Works of Manuel de Pedrolo in Relation to the Post-civil War Catalan Landscape (2019) as well as my MRes: The Figure of the Last Man in Manuel de Pedrolo’s 'Mecanoscrit del segon origen'. I previously held a lectureship at the Department of Digital Arts and Humanities at this same institution (2023-25). I obtained my Bachelor degree in English Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona (2011) and relocated to Ireland in 2009 after an Erasmus stay at University College Cork.

My research looks at literary spaces in the context of Iberian minoritised languages and cultures, particularly through the use of text-mining and GIS to map post-war Catalan literary and cultural heritage. I am also interested in multilingual approaches to Digital Humanities, sustainability and the maker community, and the enhancing of learning and teaching through the ethical use of digital technologies. I preside the Associació d’Humanitats Digitals Catalanes, a private non-profit organization created with the aim of promoting digital scholarship and best practices within the field of Catalan Studies. I am also a co-convenor of the UK and Ireland Association of Digital Humanities' Community Interest Group Multilingual DH.

Present and past teaching

· DH1001: Introduction to the Digital Humanities

· DH2001: Digital Humanities: Theories, Concepts, & Practices

· DH2009: Gender, Race and Digital Humanities

· DH6012/PG6010: Contemporary Practices in Publishing and Editing

· DH4001: Research Seminar

· DH2006: Curation and Dissemination in the Digital Age

· DH2007: Computer-assisted Text Analysis for the Arts and Humanities

· HS1101:First Year Spanish Language for Beginners

· HS5015 Spanish Language for Post-Primary Teachers: B2 (CEFR)

· HS5018 Digital Technologies in the Spanish Language Classroom

· LL3102 European Cultural Identities: Cultural Capitals.

· HS2102 Second Year Spanish Language (Ex-Non-Beginners)

· HS3004 Translating Business, Culture and Society in the Hispanic World