Biography

I completed my BA International in Spanish and French at NUI Galway in 2009, before completing my MA in Spanish there in 2010, and my PhD in 2016. Funded by the Irish Research Council and the Hardiman Scholarship (NUI Galway), I undertook a structured PhD in Latin American Studies with a focus on representations of genders and ethnicities in Chilean historical fiction. From there, I took up a lectureship in Hispanic Studies in Cardiff University between 2016 and 2018. I started in UCC as a Lecturer in Latin American Studies in 2018.


Research Interests

My research interests are broadly related to gendered approaches in Latin American cultural studies, with a focus on Chile. I research feminist cultural activists whose work contributes to the struggles against socio-historical and geopolitical challenges. My monograph, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile: Revisiting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer (2021), explores traditional and contemporary concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity in Chile through a textual analysis of historical novels depicting seventeenth-century figure, Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer. Much of my work has focused on feminist readings of marginalisation in Chilean culture, but more recently my passion for cultural activism and the impetus to explore the learnings acquired through cross-cultural comparisons from decolonial feminist perspectives have motivated a focus on comparing experiences in Ireland and Latin America. I promote the cross-cultural exploration of social justice issues across Ireland and Latin America in my role as researcher on the Critical Epistemologies Across Borders (CEAB) project and as Co-PI on Trans/Actions: Translation as Activism. I am an active member of the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster, based in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures, and was co-convenor between 2020 and 2024.


Recent selected conference papers/ invited talks
2025: Invited speaker for the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies 2025 EDI seminar series in University of Galway. 'Urgency and Synthesis with Colectivo LASTESIS: Translating feminist epistemologies from Chile to combat gender-based violence', 7 March
2024: Invited speaker on a roundtable on Reproductive Justice organised by Radical Humanities Laboratory and Comhrá in UCC with Dr Marita Hennessy, Dr Claire Murray and Dr Basia Sliwinska, 30 October
2024: ‘Escucha militante. Sonic Creative Strategies against Gender-Based Violence in Ireland and Latin America’ with Dr Carlos Garrido Castellano at the annual conference of Society for Latin American Studies, 1-3 July, CEDLA Amsterdam.
2024: ‘A rapist in your path’: Reflecting on multimodal practices against gender-based violence with Dr Cara Levey and Professor Nuala Finnegan in UCC at the Radical Futures conference in UCC on 8-9 May
2023: Panel on CEAB project presented with Professor Nuala Finnegan at the Society for Irish Latin American Studies in University of Galway, 21-23 June
2023: Roundtable on CEAB project presented with Professor Nuala Finnegan and Dr Cara Levey at the Society for Latin American Studies in Queen’s University Belfast, 30-31 March
2022: ‘‘Storytelling as salvation’: transformative narratives of reproductive justice in Argentina and Ireland’ in Latin American Studies Association annual conference (online), 4-8 May
2022: ‘Pirate Queens and Hybrid Beings: Insurgent Bodies in Chilean and Irish Reproductive Justice Campaigns’ in Cardiff University, invited speaker (online), 23 March
2021: ‘La insurgente Yeguada Latinoamericana: a cultural response to the estallido social in Chile’ in the Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (WISPS) annual conference (online), 4-6 November
2021: ‘Challenging reproductive injustice in Argentina, Chile and Ireland: Art and Activism’ Participation in ‘Cuerpa Política’ podcast, 25 March 
2021: ‘Decolonising reproductive justice campaigns, learning from Latin America’ in ‘The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America’ conference (online), 14-15 January
2019: ‘Decolonising the Protests: Chile and Ireland’ in Association of Hispanists in Great Britain and Ireland Conference in Durham University, 8-10 April
2019: ‘Politicising the collective: artistic responses in Chilean reproductive justice campaigns’ in Society for Latin American Studies Conference in University of Leicester, 4-5 April
2018-present: Since December 2018, I have delivered an annual lecture to the students of Universidad de Chile’s ‘Apreciación de la literatura’ [Appreciation of Literature] module, both in-person and online.
2018: ‘Artists in debate for reproductive justice in Ireland’, invited talk at Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades in Universidad de Chile, 13 December
2018: ‘Decolonial readings of artists’ campaigns for reproductive justice in Ireland and Chile’ in ‘Asociación Estudios Irlandeses del Sur’ conference: Ireland and Latin America: Globalizing Irish Studies Conference in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago), 9-12 December

Research Grants

  Project Funding
Body
Start Date End Date Award
A Convergence of Bodies in the Anthropocene: PostDictatorship Memory in Patricio Guzmán’s Triptych (2010-2020) Irish Research Council 01-SEP-20 29-NOV-24 €58,500.00
Redefining Chilean National Identity in the Post-Pinochet Era and the Early Twenty-First Century through the Contemporary Novel National University of Ireland, Galway €20,500.00
Writing and Representation: Escrevivência and Quilombismo as Tools for Preserving Racialised Identities Irish Research Council €72,810.00
Critical Epistemologies Across Borders (CEAB) Higher Education Authority (HEA) 01-SEP-22 28-FEB-25 €197,015.00
Queer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spaces National University of Ireland (NUI) 01-JAN-20 10-DEC-20 €75,500.00
Monstrosity, biopolitics, resistance and selfhood in contemporary Mexican speculative fiction Irish Research Council 03-APR-23 30-MAR-27 €58,500.00
Redefining Chilean National Identity in the Post-Pinochet Era and the Early Twenty-First Century through the Contemporary Novel Irish Research Council 01-SEP-11 20-DEC-15 €61,500.00
Trans/Actions: Translation as Activism Other: Not Listed 15-SEP-23 30-SEP-24 €3,000.00

Books

  Year Publication
(2021) Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile: Revisiting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer.
Céire Broderick (2021) Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile: Revisiting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2024) 'La crítica palimspestica y multimodal de Nelly Richard’'
Céire Broderick (2024) 'La crítica palimspestica y multimodal de Nelly Richard’' In: Alexandra Santos Pinheiro; Algemira de Macêdo Mendes; Brigida Manuela Pastor; Eliane do Amaral Campell (eds). A crítica literária feminista ibero-americana e suas diásporas. Vol II. Sao Paolo: Mercado de Letras. [Details]
(2017) 'Exposing Gender Norms in Chile: A Textual Analysis of Isabel Allende’s Inés del alma mía (2006)'
Céire Broderick (2017) 'Exposing Gender Norms in Chile: A Textual Analysis of Isabel Allende’s Inés del alma mía (2006)' In: Tina-Karen Pusse, Lorrain Kelly, Jennifer Wood (eds). Gender.Nation.Text. Exploring Constructs of Identity. Berlin: LIT Verlag. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2022) 'Situating memory(ies) and promoting public pedagogy in Al sur de la Alameda: diario de una toma'
Céire Broderick (2022) 'Situating memory(ies) and promoting public pedagogy in Al sur de la Alameda: diario de una toma'. Journal of Romance studies, 22 (2):277-300 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2022) 'Insurgent bodies in cultural responses to reproductive justice in Chile and Ireland'
Broderick, Céire (2022) 'Insurgent bodies in cultural responses to reproductive justice in Chile and Ireland'. Bulletin of Latin American Research, [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2021) 'The Irish Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Pilot: A Critical Analysis on Culture and Context from a Community of Practice Approach'
Lorraine McIlrath, Céire Broderick, Mary McDonnell Naughton, Maria Kelly (2021) 'The Irish Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Pilot: A Critical Analysis on Culture and Context from a Community of Practice Approach'. Gateways-International Journal Of Community Research And Engagement, 14 (1):1-15 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Creating a 'third space' through narration in Mercedes Valdivieso's Maldita yo entre las mujeres'
Broderick, Céire (2019) 'Creating a 'third space' through narration in Mercedes Valdivieso's Maldita yo entre las mujeres'. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (University of Liverpool), 96 (7):747-761 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2013) 'Breaking the Silence in Mercedes Valdivieso’s La brecha (1961) and Maldita yo entre las mujeres (1991)'
Ceire Broderick (2013) 'Breaking the Silence in Mercedes Valdivieso’s La brecha (1961) and Maldita yo entre las mujeres (1991)'. Aigne, [ Publisher's Version] [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2024 2023 President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals University College Cork

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Association of Hispanists in Great Britain and Ireland Ordinary Member /
Society for Latin American Studies Ordinary Member /
Latin American Literary Studies Association Committee member /

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
University College Cork Lecturer in Latin American Studies 20-AUG-18 /
Cardiff University Lecturer in Hispanic Studies 01-SEP-16 / 31-JUL-18

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2016 NUI Galway PhD Latin American Studies
2009 University of Galway BA International in Spanish and French Spanish and French
2010 University of Galway MA in Spanish Spanish and Latin American Studies

Languages

  Language Reading Writing Speaking
French
Spanish

Teaching Interests

I have taught on a range of courses related to Spanish language and Latin American culture. This includes Spanish language grammar, conversation, Business Spanish, and translation bilaterally between English and Spanish for language-learning and specialist purposes. I have contributed to and coordinated a variety of modules with focuses on Latin American literature, film and history, as well as some work on Spanish fiction. At postgraduate level, I contribute to a range of taught Masters programmes, delivering more general research skills support, as well as focusing on decolonial feminist theory, feminist activism, and intersectional struggles against marginalisation more broadly.

HS1010 Business and Society in the Spanish-speaking World (Coordinator)
HS2008 Business and Society in the Spanish-speaking World II (Coordinator)
HS2014 Understanding Latin America (Coordinator)
HS2016 Creative Practices on Social Justice and Marginalisation in Latin America (Coordinator)
HS3001 Final Year Spanish Language 
HS5011 Landmarks in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Coordinator)
HS5017 Cultural Responses to Global Challenges in the Spanish-Speaking World (Coordinator)
HS5021 Understanding Latin America: Texts and Contexts (Coordinator)
LL6008 Mobility, Plurilingualism and Intercultural Communication in the Globalized World
LL6111 Theorising the Global: Migration Studies, Postcolonialism and Critical Theory (Coordinator)
LL6903 Research Skills in Migration, Mobility and Culture (Coordinator)
WS6002 Feminist Theory
PG7044 Researching through Gendered and Intersectional Lenses: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

Past modules:
HS1102 First Year Spanish Language for Non-Beginners
HS2007 Business and Society in the Spanish-speaking World I (Coordinator)
HS2057 Cinema and Identity in Spain and Latin America
HS3058 Human Rights, Memory, and the Post-Dictatorship Generation in the Southern Cone
HS6003 Advanced Spanish Translation Skills
LL5005 Negotiating Knowledges in the Networked Society (Coordinator)
LL6901 Research Skills in Languages and Culture (Coordinator)
LL6007 Research Journal and Presentation Skills (Coordinator)
LL6038 Metropolis, Mobility and Minorities

PhD Supervision: 
'Monstrosity, biopolitics, resistance and selfhood in contemporary Mexican speculative fiction' by Edyta Andzel-O'Shanahan. Funded by IRC. Co-supervision with Professor Nuala Finnegan.
'Writing and Representation: Towards a New Literary Paradigm through Escrevivência and Quilombismo' by Beatriz Dantas Vieira. Funded by ARTFICTIONS (IRC Laureate). Co-supervision with Dr Carlos Garrido Castellano.
'Exploring crime fiction translation from a gender and minority culture perspective' by Anna Cruzado Sanders. Funded by NUI Travelling Scholarship. Co-supervision with Dr Helena Buffery.

Recent Postgraduates

  Graduation Year Student Name Institution Degree Type Thesis Title
2025 Sara Helin-Long University College Cork PHD A Convergence of Bodies in the Anthropocene: PostDictatorship Memory in Patricio Guzmán’s Triptych (2010-2020)
2025 Clare Geraghty University College Cork PHD Queer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spaces

Internal Collaborators

  Name Institute Country
Elizabeth Rosales Martínez UCC IRELAND
Dr Hannah Silvester UCC IRELAND

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country
Colectivo LASTESIS Universidad de Valparaíso CHILE
Nadette Foley Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation IRELAND
Professor Alexandra Santos Pinheiro Universidad Federal Da Grande Dourados BRAZIL
Dr Catherine Barbour Trinity College Dublin IRELAND