French and Spanish Tutor

BA (Hons) French and Spanish (Leicester); MA (Leicester); PhD (Leicester)

Contact Details

• Email: els15@le.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2689
• Office: 1212
• Subject: Spanish

Research Summary

Dr Staniland has recently completed her PhD thesis, entitled 'Towards Agency: Dialectic Bildung in Late Twentieth-Century Spanish American Women's Writing' (May 2010).  This study considers the critical representation of three inter-related stages of gendered identity development in works by Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Cristina Peri Rossi, Sylvia Molloy, Ángeles Mastretta and Zoé Valdés.  Broadly, this study argued that a gradual progression towards selfhood takes place across the novels considered here, and that it is one characterised by a threefold movement towards self-knowing and, consequently, social agency.  Dr Staniland is now looking to develop this project as a monograph, whilst developing other research areas in comparative American literature.

Teaching and Administration

Teaching:

• Spanish Language Beginners 1 & 2 (module leader)
• Latin American Culture & Society: Mexico and Mesoamerica (module leader)
• Spanish Literature & Film (module leader)
• Understanding Contemporary France 1 & 2 (module leader)

Administration:

• School of Modern Languages Research Seminar Programme Organiser