Patricia Montenegro is a Lecturer in Media Communications, Cultural Studies, and Film and Television Studies
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Dr Patricia Montenegro has a strong academic background devising and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Hispanic literatures and cultures. During the early stages of her PhD, she taught Latin American literature at Royal Holloway and was employed as a lecturer at UCL specialising in Spanish cinema. Her teaching experience in Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures continued for four years at the University of Sussex. Her academic journey continued teaching a wide range of media, films and cultural modules at London Metropolitan University initially as an Associate Lecturer before transitioning to a permanent lecturer role.
Throughout her academic career, Patricia has taught modules initially within Hispanic Studies and Cultures at various UK universities, and later across the fields of media and communications, cultural studies, and film and television studies at London Metropolitan University.
Patricia’s teaching activities reflect a strong commitment to media and cultural studies and socio-political contexts. Her teaching centres on cultural modules and theoretical approaches covering a diverse range of topics and media formats, including graphical communications. Her teaching encourages critical engagement with contemporary media landscapes and cultural representations emphasising the Education for Justice Framework.
Central to her role at London Met has been the organisation and delivery of the challenging work-based learning module that she has overseen since 2016. This module requires collaborative working with both the Employability team and the University’s Charities and Social Enterprise Clinic team to ensure students gain rewarding work-based experiences.
Patricia also supervises final year students, is a Personal Academic Tutor and interim Course Leader for Media and Marketing students.
Patricia’s research interests are centered around cultural studies specifically within Latin American audio-visual media cultures, literatures and comics and approaches to cultural production. Her work explores the cultural politics of Argentina with a particular emphasis on the cultural expressions of Peronism and expressions found in cinema, literature, and popular media such as comics and graphic novels.
Currently Patricia is writing on contemporary Argentine graphic novels within political contexts and conducting research on integral female graphic novel artists from Argentina. She is a member of the professional Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
Conferences
- Eggs, Butter and Power: Unpacking Political Allegory and Social Decay in Fraticelli and Couselo’s Putrefacción’. Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality and the Anthropocene. University of Limerick; Limerick, Ireland, 2 - 3 May 2024
- ‘In Between Worlds: A Journey through Vignettes in Nacha Vollenweider’s Volver’. Third Conference on Latin American Women Writers: ‘The path ahead is vast: Latin American writers between worlds’. Università Ca’ Foscari; Venezia, Italy 13 - 14 June 2024.
Publications
- Panels of the Self: Gaslighting and self-referentiality in Sole Otero’s Poncho fue’ – Chapter in edited book. Alternative Voices: Curating Female Subjectivities in Spanish and Latin American Art (1920-2020), Fiona Noble and Nadia Albaladejo García eds. Palgrave MacMillan. Forthcoming.
- Mujeres travestidas, transgresión y la política de contención en Tango! (1933) y La estancia del gaucho Cruz (1938)’. Chapter in edited book. Adrián Melo ed. Otras historias de amor. Buenos Aires: Editorial Lea, 2008. pp. 171-92. ISBN 978-987-634-052-6
- Kindred Spirits: Poems by Regino Boti, edited and intro. by Stephen Hart, Bilingual edition. London: Mango Publishing, 2005. Spanish into English translations of poems within ‘El mar y la montaña’ section. ISBN 1902294270
- Competing Masculinities and Homosocial Desire in El jefe (1958)’, Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 4.2 (Summer 2004), pp. 67-83. ISSN 1473-3536
'Gaucho Trouble', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, Vol. 8 (2000), June 2003, pp. 223-37. ISSN 0967 1129
Patricia is a Member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Higher Education Association.