Main education
- PhD Screen Studies, Liverpool John Moores University (GTA studentship) 2015 – 2018 (expected)
- PGC AP (Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014 – 2015, Grade: Distinction (1st)
- MA in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester, 2010, Grade: Merits
- PGCE in Language and Literature, University of Valencia, 2006 Curso de Aptitud Pedagógica, CAP], Official UK QTS obtained in 2008. Grade: N/A
- BA in Spanish Philology, Universidad de Vigo/Uned, 2006 [Licenciatura en Filología Española] Grade 2:1
Certified translations and NARIC equivalents can be provided for all non-UK qualifications.
Book Chapters and articles:
- It came from the ‘Other’ side. Borders, security and anxiety in (Fear) the Walking Dead. Article in Trespassing Journal: Trespassing Borders
- Damaged Survivors in ‘The Walking Dead’ (TV): Conflict, Gender and Performativity in relation to Daryl and Carol’s Narrative Arcs. – Book chapter in Gender and Horror (TV) [Forthcoming]
- Motherhood, domesticity and nurture in the post-apocalyptic world: negotiating femininity in ‘The Walking Dead’; Book Chapter in Women who Kill in English-Speaking Cinema and TV Series of the Postfemisnit Era. Editors: Zachary Baqué (Université Toulouse), Cristelle Maury (Université Toulouse) and David Roche (Université Toulouse) [Forthcoming]
- This is not Paradise and the Journey Was not Worth it: Globalisation, Financial Crisis and the Portrayal of the Sub-Saharan Immigrant in Three Spanish Films – Book Chapter in Cast-Away at Sea: Immigration in 21st Century Film. Editors: Nicole Beth Wallenbrock (University of Tennessee) and Frank Jacob (CUNY) [Forthcoming]
Conference Proceedings and Other Publications:
- Film Review: Truman (Cesc Gay, 2015), Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana [Forthcoming]
- El género fílmico y el guión cinematográfico en la clase de ELE, IX Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester, Instituto Cervantes, July 2016 [Film genre and Scriptwriting in the Spanish Language Classroom, Forthcoming]
- Trabajando con el imperfecto y el indefinido en la clase de ELE: propuestas didácticas , VII Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester, Instituto Cervantes, June 2014 [Resources for working with past tenses in the Spanish Classroom, registration number 503-15-026-2] Available in Spanish at http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/publicaciones_centros/PDF/manchester_2013-2014/10_suarez.pdf
- Actividades en entornos digitales: exposición a muestras reales de lengua, VI Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester, 2013 [Resources in online platforms: being in contact with real language registration number 503-15-026-2] Available in Spanish at http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/publicaciones_centros/PDF/manchester_2013-2014/03_suarez.pdf
- Usando concursos televisivos como escenario de aprendizaje de una L2, Actas de las V Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester [Digital Proceedings at the Centro Virtual Cervantes, registration number M-22779-2013, Using TV panel and quiz shows as platforms in L2 acquisition] Available in Spanish at http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/publicaciones_centros/PDF/manchester_2012/06_suarez.pdf
- El uso de la animación 3D como herramienta de aprendizaje de una segunda lengua, Actas de las IV Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester , Instituto Cervantes Manchester (Manchester: 2011), pages 55-62 [The use of 3D animation as a tool in L2 Acquisition] [Also available in Spanish at http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/publicaciones_centros/PDF/manchester_2011/10_fernandez.pdf]
- La adaptación y la mediatización sémica: aproximaciones a Hamlet a través de Kenneth Branagh y Franco Zefirelli in Becerra, Carmen (et al.); Lectura: imágenes, Universidade de Vigo (Vigo: 2001), pages 515-523 [Adaptation and Semiotic Mediation: Approaches to Hamlet through Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zefirelli]
Presentations, Conferences and Symposiums:
- Stereotyping the Immigrant and Victimization in Two Spanish Films: La venta del paraíso (2012) and Evelyn (2012) – LJMU LSS Research Lunch [Forthcoming 2018]
- Globalisation and the Portrayal of Sub-Saharan Immigrants in Spanish Films. Paper at Graduate School Day. LJMU [26th July 2017]
- Character design for the language classroom. Workshop for teachers of Spanish. Instituto Cervantes Manchester [1st July 2017]
- The Spanish Financial Crisis: Culprits and Pardon in El desconocido (Dani de la Torre, 2015) – Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath, University of Manchester, 31 March – 1 April 2017
- “Poor little you, if only you knew better, you wouldn’t be in this trouble!” Victimising and blaming the immigrant in contemporary Spanish film. – MeCCSA Conference 2017 (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association). Theme: Culture, Media, Equiality and Freedom, 11-13 January 2017, Leeds
- Delineating Borders: Representing Difference and Migration in Spanish Film – Peers Symposium, University of Liverpool [04th November 2016]
- Identifying factors in the Spanish economic crisis through places in El desconocido – Forum of Iberian Studies, University of Oxford. [29-30 September 2016]
- Film Genre and Scriptwriting in the Spanish as a Second Language Classroom. – Instituto Cervantes Manchester. Workshops for Teachers of Spanish, 1st July 2016.
- Victims of the Spaniard: The portrayal of the Latin American Immigrant in La venta del paraíso (Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, 2012) and Evelyn (Isabel de Ocampo, 2012) – BAFTSS Conference [14th April 2016]
- Victims of the Spaniard: The portrayal of the Latin American Immigrant in La venta del paraíso (Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, 2012) and Evelyn (Isabel de Ocampo, 2012) – SLAS Conference [7th April 2016]
- Poster Presentation: “The African and Latin American Immigrant in Spanish Film since 2005: a (Post)Colonial View through the Lens of Gender. Historical Background.” LJMU Research Day, 25th-26th of June 2015
- Intersections of gender and race in the portrayal of Latin American and African immigrants in Spanish Films; Rethinking (Re)Presentation, University of Manchester, 5th of June 2015
- Poetry in the Spanish Language classroom, workshop for the Sixth Form Day, Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2014
- Actividades para practicar los pasados en la clase de ELE, VII Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester, Instituto Cervantes, June 2014
- El uso de microcuentos en la clase de ELE, I Encuentro de Profesores de ELE en Centros Universitarios del Norte de Inglaterra, Manchester Metropolitan University / Instituto Cervantes / University of Manchester, December 2013
- Actividades en entornos online: exposición a muestras reales de lengua, VI Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester, 2013
- Usando concursos televisivos como escenario de aprendizaje de una L2, V Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester 2012
- The digital divide, branding and the online presence of Latinos in the US, October 2012, IR13.0 Conference
- Usando concursos televisivos como escenario de aprendizaje de una L2, 29th June 2012, Workshop for teachers, Instituto Cervantes Manchester [The use of TV quiz shows and panel shows as a tool in Second Language Acquisition]
- El uso de la animación 3D como herramienta de aprendizaje de una segunda lengua, 1st July 2011 , Workshop for teachers, Instituto Cervantes Manchester [The use of 3D animation as a tool in Second Language Acquisition]
- La adaptación y la mediatización sémica: aproximaciones a Hamlet a través de Kenneth Branagh y Franco Zefirelli; at the I Comparative Literature: Film Congress, 13th-17th December 1999, Vigo
- Theatre and Theory of Reception: Brief Analysis of Hamlet; 1st-3rd July 1999; I Theatre Studies Conference, Vigo
Other training and Certificates:
- Mental Health First Aid training, Mental Health First Aid England, Summer 2016
- Workshop for Teachers of Spanish as a Second Language (design and delivery of workshop), Instituto Cervantes Manchester:
- July 2017 on Designing Characters in the Language Classroom
- July 2016 on Using Scriptwriting in the Language Classroom
- July 2014 on working with past tenses
- July 2013 on digital platforms in the Language Classroom
- July 2012 on TV shows and quizzes in the Language Classroom
- July 2011 on using animation software in the Language Classroom
- Certificate of Examiner DELE [Examiner of the Official Spanish Certificate as a Second Language]:
- DELE A2/B1 for UK Schools [GCSE and A-Level], Instituto Cervantes, May 2016
- DELE A1/A2 – Instituto Cervantes, March 2014
- DELE B1/B2 – Instituto Cervantes, August 2013
- DELE C1/C2 – Instituto Cervantes, October 2011
- Certificate of Tutor for the AVE Global platform (software for distance teaching and learning, Spanish Language), Instituto Cervantes, July 2015 and June 2012
- Training for teachers of Spanish as a Second Language “Profesor ELE 2.0″ (Teacher of Spanish as a Second Language 2.0”), University of Rioja, Spain (in progress, 2014)
- I Conference for Teachers of Spanish at Universities in the North West of England, December 2013
- Graduate Teaching Asssistant (GTA) Training, University of Manchester, 2nd November 2011
- Certificate of Valencian Language: A1, A2 and B level, JQCV (Official exams), June 2006
Translations:
- Security devices and installations: for Conception Consultancy (2012)
- Description of software and apps: for FDM Translations (2010-utd)
- Notes for a TV commercial: for Sound Films (UK), 2009
- Mediterranean recipes: for Global Editions (Valencia, Spain), 2004
- Travel guide data: for Uno Ediciones (Valencia, Spain), 2004
- Book: Oliveira Malvar, Mercedes; La educación sentimental: una propuesta para adolescentes, Icaria (Barcelona: 1998)
Other publications:
- Manes / La Cuentacuentos, Torremozas (Madrid: 2008).
Other:
XX International Literary Award “Ana María Matute”, April 2008, organized by Editorial Torremozas, Spain
Webmaster:
- Creation of a blog for the research project “Feminization of Labour”, 2012
- Creation of a blog for the Conference “Material Matters” at the University of Giessen, 2014
- Creation of a blog for FLAME Research Centre, MMU (Transferred ownership)
- Creation of a blog for a Regional PGR Network of Spanish and Latin American Screen Studies (under development)