PhD Candidate: Using Participatory Arts Research (PAR) to comprehend Strategies of Resistance and Sisterhood Through Feminist Embroidery: a Comparative Study Between Mexico and Ireland.
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Introducing the centre, our director, Professor Nuala Finnegan
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Brenda Mondragon Toledo
01 Oct 2020
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Eva Cabrejas
18 Aug 2021
PhD Candidate – De la resistencia a la reconstrucción: Lucha epistémico cultural de la mujer originaria chiapaneca. Murales de Oventic: esencia de identidad nacional.
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Dr Emer Clifford
01 Oct 2019
Otras miradas: representations of gender violence in contemporary Mexican visual culture (2001-2011)
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Dr Nadia Albaladejo
01 Oct 2019
Through the looking-glass: the interartistic practice of Remedios Varo
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Dr Patrick Aylward
01 Oct 2015
Echoes of existentialism in the works of Carlos Fuentes
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Previous Researchers in the centre
Alexander, Donna Maria
Chicana Poetics: Genre and Style in Gloria Anzaldúa and Lorna Dee Cervantes (2015)
Aylward, Pat
Echoes of Existentialism in the Works of Carlos Fuentes (2015)
McNamara, Niamh
O'Sullivan, Sarah-May
Ages of Masculinity: Versions of Canadian and Mexican Masculinities in Recent Cinemas (2011)
Borreye, Orla Juliette
Invisible Prisons: Gender, Performance and Identity in Recent Mexican Cinema (2009)
Sigl, Nicole
Identity in Recent Québécois and Mexican Cinema (2008)
Kelly, Lorraine
Fenced in: the Limits of the Female Self in the Work of Brianda Domecq (2007)
Cruz García, Ana
Browne, Ken
Roberto Bolaño and the Adaptation of 2666 to the Theatre
Paula Hanley
Historical Analysis of Legal Changes about the Border Post 9-11
MacCana, Tristan
Representations of Narcoculture
Goals of the Centre
- Produce world-leading research in the area of Mexican Studies with particular focus on contemporary cultural studies including literature, cinema, art and other forms.
- To become the leading academic research centre for Mexican Studies in Ireland through publications and other research outputs; research activity; doctoral research.
- To forge strong partnerships locally, nationally and internationally to support research activity.
- To act as a research focus for the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies through a dynamic programme of activities that includes research seminars by leading academics in Mexican Studies as well as readings and talks by distinguished Mexican writers and critics.
- To develop external engagement agenda through the forging of links with the Mexican community through community engagement events and activities.
- To develop international partnerships through collaboration.
- To support and develop doctoral research in Mexican Studies.
- To act as a focal point for interdisciplinary engagement with other research centres.