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Jean Andrews

Associate Professor, Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

My research interests are poetry in English and the major Romance languages, literary translation, Hispanic and Portuguese religious painting in the Renaissance and Baroque, festal culture in the same period, and nineteenth-century opera on Hispanic themes. This is a varied range, tied together by an overarching interest in projections of Hispanic identities across genre, discipline and era. I have published on all of these areas and supervised or am in the process of supervising post-graduate research on some of these areas.

Apart from academic work, my interest in poetry is also hands-on. My own poetry and my translations can be accessed on my website.

Teaching Summary

Undergraduate and MA Teaching

Painting and Visual Culture: I offer one semester of a second year module on painting in Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the Portuguese settlements in the Far East from the middle of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century. We look at how the development of these two extensive empires is reflected in art.

I run a final year module on painting in Spain from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Both modules include aspects of curatorship - organising exhibitions, writing exhibition notes etc.

Literature: My contribution to our first year Literature module is on a recent novel (2017) by the Latin American writer, Isabel Allende, Mas Allá del Invierno/In the Midst of Winter, a novel which deals with the very pertinent themes of migration and political persecution.

I teach a core module Comparative Literature for master's students. We look at twentieth-century short stories written in the languages of three of the former European colonial nations and two non-European cultures and discuss the expression of national, local, class and ethnic identities, and the evolution of the modern short story from folktale to the present day.

In the past, I have taught or contributed to modules on Spanish Golden Age theatre, Spanish cinema, Spanish poetry and photography, and travel writing related to Iberia. As far as possible I try to include creative exercises in my modules. I believe that creative exercises help students to get inside the texture of the pieces they are studying and they provide an different kind of experience to conventional exams and essay questions.

Research Supervision I can supervise on early modern topics (literature, painting, festal and religious culture), nineteenth-century travel writing, writing by women, painting, projections of national, regional and local identities, twentieth-century poetry, and translation, especially in relation to poetry or literature in general.

Research Summary

Philippine History Retrieval Project - Portugal: a collaboration with a group of distinguished Lusitanist colleagues on the translation of c.80 documents from Spanish and Portuguese into English… read more

Recent Publications

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