Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Deidre Kelly
- Qualifications:
- PhD in Hispanic Studies from Trinity College Dublin
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Associate Members - Lecturer in Spanish (Technological University Dublin)
- Institute:
- Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
- Home institution:
- Technological University Dublin
- Email address:
- Deidre.Kelly@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-deidre-kelly
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Language and Literature (Spanish)
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Profile
Deirdre Kelly is a lecturer in Spanish at Technological University Dublin and holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Her research areas include: 20th- and 21st-century Spanish literary, visual and cultural studies; Rosa Montero and other contemporary Spanish authors; Spanish women’s writing; Spanish life writing; memory debates in contemporary Spain; Spain and the Holocaust. She is currently completing a monograph on Rosa Montero’s life writing. She is also working on a research project that focuses on the representation in contemporary graphic novels of Spanish Republicans in Nazi concentration camps. Deirdre is co-editor of the Open Forum of the International Journal of Iberian Studies and Communications Officer for the Association of Contemporary Iberian Studies.