Dr Anne Walsh
I worked in the Department of Hispanic Studies at University College Cork, Ireland for many years as well as spending time (Jan-June 1998) as Honorary Associate in the School of Languages and Linguistics (Spanish & Latin-American Studies), University of New South Wales.
My research interests focus on the narrative trends produced in Spain in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As such, they follow the development of such themes as that of memory, war, history, disillusionment, crime (and so on) and examine how these themes reflect Spanish culture. These themes are viewed in the light of contemporary narrative criticism particularly, but not exclusively, the ideas of ‘postmodernism’ and ‘reader response’.
- Contemporary Spanish Narrative (Novel and/or Film)
- Translation Studies
Teaching
- Span 3602 Advanced Spanish 2
- Span 3622 Introduction to Spanish Translation
- Span 4103 Spanish and Latin American Studies
Supervision
Completed PhD theses
Areas supervised to date include analyses of post-Spanish-Civil-war narratives as well as investigation of the effects of various narrative themes and techniques on the reader/viewer of transition, post-transition and contemporary Spanish fiction.
Masters
Supervised Masters theses have investigated areas such as the translation of novels into English or into film, investigation of the use of setting, space, female characters, intertextuality, the self, fictional autobiography, symbolism, testimony in a selection of contemporary and post-civil-war writers or film directors, including Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Lucia Etxebarría, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Miguel Delibes, Ana María Matute, Dulce Chacon, Julio Llamazares, Carmen Laforet, Pedro Almodóvar,
- Further Investigation of trends in contemporary Spanish narrative. Working title: ‘Chaos and Coincidence in Contemporary Spanish Narrative’. This analysis looks particularly at a selection of work by Camilo José Cela, Ana María Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Rosa Montero, Javier Marías, Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Isaac Rosa.
- Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA).
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)
Selected publications
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017)
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
(Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, 2011)
(Editorial Verbum, 2009)
(Tamesis Books, 2007)
Publications
Books
- Walsh, A. (2017). Fictional Portrayals of Spain's Transition to Democracy: Transitional Fantasies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Walsh, A. (2011). Chaos and Coincidence in Contemporary Spanish Fiction. Bern: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers. [More Information]
- Walsh, A. (2007). Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Narrative Tricks and Narrative Strategies. United Kingdom: Tamesis Books.
Edited Books
- Walsh, A. (2015). Telling Tales: Storytelling in Contemporary Spain. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Ribeiro de Menezes, A., Quance, R., Walsh, A. (2009). Guerra y memoria en la España contemporánea: War and Memory in Contemporary Spain. Spain: Editorial Verbum.
Book Chapters
- Walsh, A. (2015). Spanish Stars, Distant Dreams: The Role of Voice in Shaping Perception. In Andrea Bandhauer, Michelle Royer (Eds.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures, (pp. 92-103). London: I.B. Tauris. [More Information]
- Walsh, A. (2014). Remembering the Canon: La familia de Pascual Duarte and Nada revisited. In Sarah Leggott and Ross Woods (Eds.), Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel: Revisiting the Past, (pp. 29-42). Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
- Walsh, A. (2011). Identifying a Trend in Contemporary Spanish Fiction: The Case of Soldados de Salamina (2001) by Javier Cercas. In Wendy-Llyn Zaza (Eds.), Encrucijadas historicas de la Espana contemporanea:Textos y contextos que marcan epoca, (pp. 321-327). New Zealand: Ambosmundos.
Journals
- Walsh, A. (2015). The Shifting Centre: A Futuristic View of Madrid in Rosa Montero's "Lagrimas en la lluvia". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 21(2), 295-305. [More Information]
2017
- Walsh, A. (2017). Fictional Portrayals of Spain's Transition to Democracy: Transitional Fantasies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2015
- Walsh, A. (2015). Spanish Stars, Distant Dreams: The Role of Voice in Shaping Perception. In Andrea Bandhauer, Michelle Royer (Eds.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures, (pp. 92-103). London: I.B. Tauris. [More Information]
- Walsh, A. (2015). Telling Tales: Storytelling in Contemporary Spain. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Walsh, A. (2015). The Shifting Centre: A Futuristic View of Madrid in Rosa Montero's "Lagrimas en la lluvia". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 21(2), 295-305. [More Information]
2014
- Walsh, A. (2014). Remembering the Canon: La familia de Pascual Duarte and Nada revisited. In Sarah Leggott and Ross Woods (Eds.), Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel: Revisiting the Past, (pp. 29-42). Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
2011
- Walsh, A. (2011). Chaos and Coincidence in Contemporary Spanish Fiction. Bern: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers. [More Information]
- Walsh, A. (2011). Identifying a Trend in Contemporary Spanish Fiction: The Case of Soldados de Salamina (2001) by Javier Cercas. In Wendy-Llyn Zaza (Eds.), Encrucijadas historicas de la Espana contemporanea:Textos y contextos que marcan epoca, (pp. 321-327). New Zealand: Ambosmundos.
2009
- Walsh, A. (2009). Echoes of Cervantes in contemporary Spanish fiction: a case study with a specific reference to La reina del sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In Idoya Puig (Eds.), Tradition and modernity: Cervantess presence in Spanish contemporary literature, (pp. 61-77). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing.
- Walsh, A. (2009). El capitan Alatriste: un enigma narrativo. In Jose Belmonte and J. M. Lopez de Abiada (Eds.), Alatriste: la sombra del heroe, (pp. 480-499). Madrid: Alfaguara.
- Ribeiro de Menezes, A., Quance, R., Walsh, A. (2009). Guerra y memoria en la España contemporánea: War and Memory in Contemporary Spain. Spain: Editorial Verbum.
2007
- Walsh, A. (2007). Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Narrative Tricks and Narrative Strategies. United Kingdom: Tamesis Books.
Selected Grants
2016
- Understanding Europe: 3 x 2cp units (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate), Winter B, Moir C, Morgan P, Karalis V, Sorbera L, Stott C, Walsh A, Alba A, Rubino A, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2011
- Writing the World - Transnationalism in Literary Studies, Bandhauer A, Borghesi F, Christie W, Cowan R, Dixon R, Giles P, Karalis V, Kirkpatrick P, Lu Y, Minter P, Morgan P, Parsons N, Rooney B, Suter R, Walsh A, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme