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Meet the Artfictions Team

Carla Almanza-Gálvez

holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Sheffield and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Galway. She is the author of Form and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Utopian Narratives and Socio-Political Debate (Cambridge, UK: Legenda, 2019), a monograph based on her doctoral thesis, which was awarded the AHGBI Publication Prize in 2017. In addition to her work on the Hispanophone eighteenth century, she has a significant research and publication record on modern and contemporary manifestations of the utopian in Spanish, Latin American, and broader intercultural and interdisciplinary contexts. She has taught Spanish and Latin American culture at universities in Peru, US, UK, and Ireland.

Fernanda Barini Camargo

is a Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. She holds a PhD (2022) and an MA (2017) in Literary Studies from São Paulo State University, UNESP, in Araraquara, where she also earned a Bachelor's and Teaching degree in Languages and Literature (2009). She is a member of the Research Group in Drama, Film, Literature, and Other Arts (GPDC-LoA | UNESP) and ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists). In 2020, she undertook a research fellowship at Universidade Aberta (UAb) in Lisbon. Her research interests include Portuguese and Brazilian literature, narrative studies, comparative studies, and inter-arts approaches.

Beatriz Dantas Vieira

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork under the IRC Laureate Consolidator project ARTFICTIONS. Beatriz holds a master’s degree in Women’s Studies also from UCC and her research interests include Gender, Black-Brazilian Literature and Art, Museum Studies and Decolonial and Cultural Studies. Her current research explores the concepts of Escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo and Quilombismo by Abdias do Nascimento, and its contributions to rebuilding black memory, identity and self-esteem in Brazilian society through contemporary art novels.

Flavia Pontes Espindola

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at UCC. She completed a joint Erasmus Mundus MA in Crossways in Cultural Narratives from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and University of Sheffield. She studied a postgraduate program in Data Analysis for Social Sciences at the University Institute of Lisbon. Her research interests are based on Literature, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Arts. Currently, she is developing a PhD on the Brazilian philosophical concept Lugar de Fala by Djamila Ribeiro. She has been one of the organizers of Brazil Forum UK, has worked with New Business at the AO-LX, Content Production at Studio 8 and she is an enthusiast of Samba de Grafiera dance.

Carlos Garrido Castellano

is Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, where he coordinates the BA programme in Portuguese Studies. He is also Associate Researcher at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future, Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System and Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque in Tragic Times (forthcoming), as well as of two other monographs in Spanish and one in Portuguese.

Project's Advisory Board:

  • Prof. Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork)
  • Prof. Fiona Kearney (University College Cork, The Glucksman Museum)
  • Prof. Regina Dalcastagnè (Universidade de Brasília)
  • Prof. Gregory Sholette (CUNY)
  • Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)
  • Prof. Inocência Mata (Lisbon University)
  • Dr. Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro (Universidad de Murcia)
  • Prof. Ana Gallego Cuiñas (Universidad de Granada)
  • Prof. Ana Paula Arnault (Porto University)
  • Giuseppe Caputo
  • Lina Meruane (NYU)
  • Tilsa Otta
  • Prof. Claire Williams (Oxford University)

ARTFICTIONS

Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel in Spanish and Portuguese: Cultural Labour, Personal Identification and the Materialisation of Alternative Art Worlds,

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