Catherine Davies | Literary Diasporas & Colonial Crisis

Catherine Davies is Professor Emerita and the Director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London. She is the co-editor of Transnational Spanish Studies (2020), and has contributed chapters to a number of edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600 (2018), Spain in the Nineteenth Century: New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society (2018), Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba: Essays in Memory of Alastair Hennessy (2018), and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (2017), among others. Her research interests are in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Spanish American history, culture and literature; the wars of Independence in Spanish American history and literature; Cuban history and literature; Abolitionism in Cuba and Puerto Rico; and literature and culture in Argentina.