Jennifer Wood

Jennifer Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies. Her research covers inclusive higher education teaching practices; constructs of identity in terms of gender and nationhood; cultural legacies of the Falklands / Malvinas conflict; women and the avant-garde; the work of Maruja Mallo and Concha Méndez; the work of Rafael Alberti; the poetic voice of Carmen Martín Gaite; and issues of sovereignty and gender in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict.

In 2022, she organised the Falklands / Malvinas War Poetry Project, which marked the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands / Malvinas War, a conflict that continues to have an impact and hold social and cultural resonance both in the UK and Argentina. The event comprised poetry exhibitions, offering an insight into British and Argentine responses to the war from established poets and poets directly involved in the conflict. The aim was to explore the impact of war, and its poetry, on people’s lives beyond the parenthetical space and location of ‘war time’.

She is a member of the Latin American Literary Studies Asociation and the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.