Dr Caragh Wells
B.A.(Lond.), M.A., Ph.D.(Exon.)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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Research interests
Research interests: The post-war Spanish novel; Contemporary Urban fiction in post-war Spain and Catalonia; Women’s writing; Narrative theory; The European Novel; Short Fiction. Special interest in the following writers: Eduardo Mendoza, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Quim Monzó, Montserrat Roig and Carmen Laforet.
Post-graduate inquiries on any of these areas or writers would be welcome.
Current research: Co-editing a volume of essays on digressive fiction in the European novel from Cervantes to Sebald. Writing a monograph on the novels and short stories of Carmen Laforet. Ongoing research into the ‘gran novel.la sobre Barcelona’ debate and the relationship between aesthetics and contemporary Catalan literary criticism.
TeachingMy teaching at both under-graduate and post-graduate level is closely linked to my research interests.
Units taught at undergraduate level have included:
Writing, Society and Politics in Franco’s Spain; The Poetics of the Spanish Short Story; Searching for an Identity: Post-war Writing by Women; Spain in Transition: Literature, Culture and Society.
Publications
Recent publications
04/03/2020The (Male) Problem That Had No Name
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
‘ “The (Male) Problem That Had No Name.” Male Neurosis in Post-War Spanish Fiction and Film’.
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
What Literature Teaches Us About Spanish Psychiatry Under Franco
Modern Language Review
The Novels of Carmen Laforet
The Novels of Carmen Laforet
Love as Trauma in Carmen Laforet's La isla y los demonios
Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies