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Dr Fernanda Penaloza
DPhil (Exeter, UK); MA (Exeter, UK); Licenciada (UBA, Argentina)
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies
Chair of Spanish and Latin American Studies Department
Chair of Spanish and Latin American Studies Department
Phone
+61 2 9351 6893
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
I joined the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies after eight years living in the UK, where I completed my MA and Phd at the University of Exeter, and then lectured in Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester for four years.
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- Migration and Latin American identities.
- 19th to 20th Century Latin American processes of cultural production, circulation and consumption;
- Narrative constructions of models of modernity and identity;
- Interrelations between fiction, colonial discourse, travel writing, aesthetics and anthropology.
- Southern Cinemascapes”: Circulation of Latin American cinema in Australia in film festivals and other exhibitions sites,1950s-present
- “Vanishing Savages”: Discourses of Savagery and Extinction on the indigneous peoples of Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania 1800s-present
Selected publications
Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Patagonia: myths and realities
(Peter Lang Publishing, 2010)
Publications
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Edited Books
- Penaloza, F., Walsh, S. (2019). Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F., Wilson, J., Canaparo, C. (2010). Patagonia: myths and realities. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing.
Book Chapters
- Lewis, P., Penaloza, F. (2020). Identity Positions and Agency among Chilean Migrants in Sydney. In Andrew Lynch (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City, (pp. 312-329). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F., Walsh, S. (2019). Introduction: Why Australia and Latin America? On Mapping Connections and Its Implications for Knowledge Production. In Fernanda Penaloza, Sarah Walsh (Eds.), Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America, (pp. 1-20). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F. (2019). Screening Latin America: The Sydney Latin American Film Festival. In Fernanda Penaloza, Sarah Walsh (Eds.), Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America, (pp. 223-239). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
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Journals
- Penaloza, F., Gallego, G. (2023). 'I'm in a Dilemma of Coming Back, not Coming Back, What to Do, I'm a Bit Stuck': Exploring the Wellbeing and Mental-health of Latin American Students in Sydney During COVID-19. Journal of Intercultural Studies. [More Information]
- Dunstan, I., Penaloza, F. (2017). The problem of assimilation in the aftermath of conquest: a comparison between Argentina and Australia (1879-1938). History Australia, 14(4), 607-625. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F. (2010). On Skulls, Orgies, Virgins and the Making of Patagonia as a National Territory: Francisco Pascasio Moreno's Representations of Indigenous Tribes. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Print Edition. Liverpool), 87(4), 455-472. [More Information]
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Conferences
- Penaloza, F. (2003). The Ethnographic Imagination and the Tehuelches. 2003 Symbiosis Conference: 'Across the Great Divide', United Kingdom (on line): STAR Publications.
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2023
- Penaloza, F., Gallego, G. (2023). 'I'm in a Dilemma of Coming Back, not Coming Back, What to Do, I'm a Bit Stuck': Exploring the Wellbeing and Mental-health of Latin American Students in Sydney During COVID-19. Journal of Intercultural Studies. [More Information]
2020
- Lewis, P., Penaloza, F. (2020). Identity Positions and Agency among Chilean Migrants in Sydney. In Andrew Lynch (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City, (pp. 312-329). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
2019
- Penaloza, F., Walsh, S. (2019). Introduction: Why Australia and Latin America? On Mapping Connections and Its Implications for Knowledge Production. In Fernanda Penaloza, Sarah Walsh (Eds.), Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America, (pp. 1-20). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F., Walsh, S. (2019). Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F. (2019). Screening Latin America: The Sydney Latin American Film Festival. In Fernanda Penaloza, Sarah Walsh (Eds.), Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America, (pp. 223-239). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
2017
- Dunstan, I., Penaloza, F. (2017). The problem of assimilation in the aftermath of conquest: a comparison between Argentina and Australia (1879-1938). History Australia, 14(4), 607-625. [More Information]
2016
- Penaloza, F. (2016). El giro intercultural: reflexiones en torno al concepto de interculturalidad en la Argentina y Chile. In Maria Andrea Nicoletti, Andres Nunez and Paula Nunez (Eds.), Araucania-Norpatagonia: Discursos y representaciones de la materialidad, (pp. 277-304). Viedma: Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro.
- Penaloza, F. (2016). Nomadismo literario: Cristian Aliaga y sus crónicas de viaje. In Claudia Hammerschmidt (Eds.), Patagonia literaria II: Funciones, proyecciones e intervenciones de autoria estrategica en la nueva literatura patagonica, (pp. 141-155). London: INOLAS.
- Penaloza, F. (2016). Transpacific Discourses of Primitivism and Extinction on "Fuegians" and "Tasmanians" in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. In Eveline Durr and Philipp Schorch (Eds.), Transpacific Americas: Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific, (pp. 89-109). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
2010
- Penaloza, F. (2010). Introduction: myths and realities: mapping scientific, religious, aesthetic and patriotic quests in Patagonia. In Fernanda Penaloza, Jason Wilson and Claudio Canaparo (Eds.), Patagonia: myths and realities, (pp. 1-25). Bern: Peter Lang Publishing.
- Penaloza, F. (2010). On Skulls, Orgies, Virgins and the Making of Patagonia as a National Territory: Francisco Pascasio Moreno's Representations of Indigenous Tribes. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Print Edition. Liverpool), 87(4), 455-472. [More Information]
- Penaloza, F., Wilson, J., Canaparo, C. (2010). Patagonia: myths and realities. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing.
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2008
- Penaloza, F. (2008). Appropriating the 'Unattainable': The British Travel Experience in Patagonia. In Matthew Brown (Eds.), Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital, (pp. 149-172). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
2007
- Penaloza, F. (2007). Mapping Constructions of Blackness in Argentina. Indiana: contributions to ethnology and linguistics, archaeology and physical anthropology of Indian America, 24, 211-123.
2004
- Penaloza, F. (2004). A Sublime Journey to the Barren Plains: Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia (1880). Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 10, 81-97.
2003
- Penaloza, F. (2003). The Ethnographic Imagination and the Tehuelches. 2003 Symbiosis Conference: 'Across the Great Divide', United Kingdom (on line): STAR Publications.
Selected Grants
2016
- Enhancing cultural competence and cross-cultural interdisciplinary effectiveness (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate), Suter R, Penaloza F, Sorbera L, Pitaloka D, Moores S, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2010
- Integrating Indigenous knowledges to Higher Education Research and Teaching: An Australian-Latin America Dialogue, Penaloza F, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant