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Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri

MA (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
Associate Professor
Room 717, Brennan-MacCallum Building A18
Telephone: +61 2 9351 4085
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There are two main elements to my research: contemporary literature written in Catalan or by Spanish-speaking Catalans, and Catalan nationalism. My latest project is a study of the causes and effects of the recent rise in interest in independence in Catalonia.

My teaching interests lie in the culture, society and politics of Spain since the end of the Civil War (1939), and regionalism and nationalism in Spain and Western Europe.

Research areas

  • The Catalan novel in the 20th and 21st centuries
  • Contemporary literature written in Spanish by Catalans
  • Cultural and linguistic policy in Catalonia
  • Catalan nationalism

Selected publications

Books

  • Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy 1980-2003 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008)
  • Language, The Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia (Oxford: Legenda, 2000).

Edited books

  • Where the Rivers Meet: Jesús Moncada (ACSOP/Five Leaves, 2011)

Book Chapters

  • ‘The Novels. Myth, History, Storytelling and Memory’, in Where the Rivers Meet: Jesús Moncada (ACSOP/Five Leaves, 2011).
  • 'Catalonia', in Nations and Nationalism: A Global Overview ed. by Guntram Herb and David Kaplan (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2008), vol. 4, 1536-47.
  • 'Teaching and Research the "Other" Cultures of Spain,' in Reading Iberia: Theory/History/Identity, ed. by Helena Buffery, Stuart Davis, and Kirsty Hooper (Peter Lang, 2007).
  • 'La política cultural catalana (1980-2003) y los escritores catalanes de expresión castellana', in La cultura catalana de expresión castellana. Estudios de literatura, teatro y cine ed. by Stewart King (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2005).
  • 'Constructing a Bridge Between Cultures: Catalan Cultural Policy and the New Immigration', in Border Crossings: Mapping Identities in Modern Europe, ed. by Peter Wagstaff (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004).

Articles

  • ‘“We Need Another Hero”: The Construction of Josep Moragues as a Symbol of Independence for Catalonia’, National Identities, 13/1 (2011), 51-65.
  • Crameri, Kathryn, 'La recepció de l'obra de Moncada al món angloparlant', Serra d'Or, 590 (February 2009), 24-5.
  • ‘Més que nostàlgia: la memòria i Jesús Moncada’, Urc, November 2006.
  • 'Official, Artificial or (Arte)factual?: The Museu d’Història de Catalunya', International Journal of Iberian Studies, 19/2 (2006).
  • 'Forging the Community: Explorations of Memory in Two Novels by Jesús Moncada', The Modern Language Review, 98/2 (2003).
  • (with Frederic Barberà), Special Issue of National Identities (4/3, 2002), containing a selection of the proceedings of the conference on Peripheral Identities in the Iberian Context (Lancaster, March 2001). Edited with jointly-written Introduction.
  • 'The Location of Myth in Camí de sirga by Jesús Moncada', Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies, 8/1 (2002).
  • 'Banal Catalanism?', National Identities, 2/2 (2000).
  • 'The Role of Translation in Contemporary Catalan Culture', Hispanic Research Journal, 1/2, 2000.
  • 'The Future of Catalanism' (Review article), Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 1/1, 2000.
  • 'Storytelling and Collective Memory in the Novels of Montserrat Roig', Donaire, 5, 1995.
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Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

  • The Languages and Cultures of Spain
  • Regionalism in Europe and the Middle East
  • Cultural and Social Change in Spain
  • Honours Seminars
  • First year language and lectures on Spain

Supervision

  • Associate supervisor of an MPhil on the writer Josefina Aldecoa.

Past candidates:

  • MA dissertations: on Carmen Gómez Ojea, language planning in Valencia, Valencian identity
  • PhD candidates: on Quim Monzó, the post-war Catalan novel, Spanish cultural policy

Conference organisation

  • ‘Peripheral Identities in the Iberian Context’, Lancaster University, U.K., 2001
  • ‘Reciprocal Gazes on the Iberian/British Other’, Lancaster University, U.K., 2004

Other professional contributions

  • Member of the Anglo-Catalan Society
  • Member of AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research
  • Tracking Editor of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research
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