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Fellowships The CCM offers opportunities for visiting scholars to conduct research into any area of Cultural Memory Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture. She is currently Dean of the School of Humanities and Director of the Doctoral Program 'The Lisbon Consortium'. Her main research areas include intermedia studies, gender studies as well as representations of war and conflict. She is the author of Mythographies. Figurations of Antigone, Cassandra and Medea in German 20th-Century Drama (2007), and co-editor of Landscapes of Memory. Envisaging the Past/Remembering the Future (2004); The Colour of Difference: On German Contemporary Culture (2005), as well as The Poetics of Navigation (2007) and Fleeting, Floating, Flowing: Water Writing and Modernity (2008). She is also editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Comunicação e Cultura. She has been Visiting Professor at numerous institutions in Europe and the USA, and Fulbright Scholar at Western Michigan University in 2001. She is currently conducting research for her book The (In)Visibility of War in Modern Culture. Claire Gorrara received her doctorate from Oxford University and is currently Professor of French Studies at Cardiff University. She has written extensively on memory and representation of the German Occupation and on French crime fiction, establishing links between that fiction, historiography and the difficult legacies of the Occupation period. Her current research project, Past Crimes, Present Memories: French Crime Fictions and the Second World War, explores France's preoccupation with memories of the War through an examination of popular culture and one of its most enduring forms, crime fiction. Andrea Hajek is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory. She received her doctorate in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick, with a dissertation on the public memory of student protest movements in the late 1970s. Previously, she studied French, Comparative Literature and Italian at the University of Utrecht. Since 2009, she is Senior Editorial Assistant for the Sage journal Memory Studies. More recently, she has also been appointed Assistant Editor of Modern Italy, the journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI). Deirdre Finnerty is a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute's Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory. She is currently studying for her doctorate in Hispanic Studies at the University of Limerick. While at the Institute she will be examining the representation of Republican mothers in testimony and post-transition (post-1978) literature and cinema of the recovery of Historical Memory in Spain. The expriences contained in women's testimonial narratives of resistance will be compared with the portrayal of Republican motherhood in fictional representations. Daniel García-Donoso is a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute’s Centre or the Study of Cultural Memory. He is originally from Córdoba (Spain), where he got a Licenciatura in Hispanic Philology in 2005. He is currently a 5th-year doctoral student at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he has also taught courses in Spanish language and translation. His research thus far has led him to realize the importance many contemporary writers from Spain (Miguel Delibes, Manuel Rivas, and Eduardo Mendoza, to name just a few) attribute to religious writing, especially the Bible, secularizing it and at the same time re-evaluating the ethical validity of this type of discourse. While at the IGRS, he will examine the ways in which religious discourse develops into a key analytic through which to access cultural memory in contemporary Spanish fiction, both narrative and film, about the Civil War. |