Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield
Lauren’s research interests centre on cultural history and contemporary cultural production in Latin America with a particular focus on Childhood Studies, Education, Popular Culture, Print and Digital Cultures, and Gender Studies.
She is Principal Investigator on the British Academy GCRF Diverse Childhoods and Educational Inequalities in Argentina project and co-director of the Great Latin American Women Project (grandesmujeres.lat). Her book on the history of the Argentine children's magazine "Billiken" is under contract with White Rose University Press.
Experience
–present
Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield
2018–present
Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures , University of Sheffield
Education
2009
King's College London , PhD
Publications
2019
100 Grandes Mujeres Latinoamericanas, Editorial Atlántida
2019
Trajectories in Argentine Children’s Literature: Constancio C. Vigil and Horacio Quiroga, International Research in Children's Literature
2019
The Newsboy’s Good Deed: Billiken Magazine’s Construction of Argentine Childhood in 1942, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
2018
Education, popular literature and future citizenship in Argentina’s Billiken children’s magazine (1919–1944), Global Studies of Childhood
2015
Afro-porteñas in Héctor Pedro Blomberg’s Historical Romances, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
2013
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930-1943, Routledge
2012
Los que se fueron y los que se quedaron: History, exile andcensorship in Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial and ManuelPuig's Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
2011
'Que al fin todas somos Eva': Nacha Guevara, Cristina Fernandez and Eva, el gran musical argentino, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Grants and Contracts
2021
Diverse Childhoods and Educational Inequalities in Argentina
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
British Academy GCRF
2020
The Great Latin American Women Project
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
UKKI GCRF
2016
The Billiken Centenary Project: Childhood and Children's Culture in Argentina, 1919-2019