Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Director of Spanish Studies

BA, MPhil (Liverpool), PGCE (York)

Contact Details

• Email: hr14@le.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2660
• Office: 1105
• Subject: Spanish

Research Summary

Helen Rawlings’ research focuses on the religious culture of Spain in the early modern period and the phenomenon of Spain's seventeenth-century decline. Her approach is inter-disciplinary and incorporates historical, literary and artistic sources of evidence. She has written three books: one on the role of the Church in shaping Spanish society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (2002), another on the historical legacy of the Spanish Inquisition (2005) and a third on the historical discourse that has informed the debate on the decline of Spain from the sixteenth century to the present day (2012).
 
Reviewer for the following academic journals: History, The English Historical Review, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, European History Quarterly, Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Teaching and Administration

Helen Rawlings is Director of Studies in Spanish from semester 2 (2011-12).

Teaching:

• Spanish Literature & Film (SP1041)
• A History of Spain (SP1051)
• The Spanish Civil War (SP2023)
• Federico García Lorca (SP2030)
• Spanish Language 5/6 (SP3110/3111)
• The Spanish Picaresque (SP3132)
• Art and Society in Spain (SP3149)

Administration:

• Examinations Officer for the School of Modern Languages

Recent Publications

The debate on the decline of Spain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012 (forthcoming).

Full listing of publications