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• Translation and new media, with particular reference to the Arabic-speaking region
• Translation and popular culture
• Gender and language use in the context of translation

• Film
• Women's studies
• Feminist thought
• Philosophy
• Twentieth century and contemporary France.

• The invention of America in the Spanish culture of the exile of 1939
• Women's personal narratives
• 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature
• Modern Spanish poetry

• Memory studies
• Post-socialism
• Germany
• Cultural history
• East German State Security Service (Stasi)
• Transitional justice.

• Political violence and terrorism
• Gender and conflict
• Feminist protest and European women’s movements
• Feminist Theory
• 1968 and its legacy
• Political extremism
• Contemporary German culture and politics

• Spanish literature and culture of the XX and XXI centuries
• The literature of the avant-garde, Spanish Republican Exile and the Spanish Civil War

• Translating National Identity
• The Reception of Catalan Literature in English

Maria Roca Lizarazu is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages within LCAHM, specialising in contemporary German-language literatures of (post-)migration, German Jewish literature and culture, Holocaust literatures, and Memory studies.

Maria was Academic Director for the Graduate Centre for Europe from 2018-2020

 

• Contemporary Spanish Literature
• Gender in Contemporary Spain
• The Child in Spanish Culture
• Contemporary Spanish Women´s Writing
• Cultural Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Spain
• Sociology of Memory

• Modern Hispanic literature and intellectual and cultural history
• Relationship between literature and power, exile and literature
• Literature and human rights
• The effects of censorship on culture

• Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• British and French imperial history
• Decolonisation and the End of Empire
• Colonial memory
• Nineteenth and Twentieth French History