Senior Lecturer in Media Arts
I have taught in Germany, Spain and the USA. At UoB, I started teaching languages and literature but moved to media in 2004, where I teach both at UG and PG levels. My PhD analysed the relationships between postmodern fiction and Hollywood film. I have examined and supervised MA and PhD work. My publication record includes chapters and refereed articles on postmodern literature, contemporary Spanish literature and film, online feminism and television comedy. I have held a wide range of course leadership duties, such as academic director for the undergraduate media programmes, and course leader for Media Practices/Mass Communications. I enjoy organizing extracurricular film events with students.
Other References
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) in English and German, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
- PhD in Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Teaching Expertise
- European and world cinema, television studies, media theory
Research Interests
- Gender and the media
- Contemporary European and world cinema
Research Projects
- Gender and television comedy
- Representations of young women in New British Realism
- Film events, education, networks, organizations
External Roles
- External Examiner at University for the Creative Arts
Publications
Most recent:
Chapters
- May 2010: “Consciousness Raising for the 21st Century: Feminist Websites and Postfeminism Online” in Transcultural Encounters amongst Women: Redrawing Boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone Art, Literature and Film, edited by Patricia O'Byrne, Gabrielle Carty and Niamh Thornton, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Spring 2006: “Of Woman Born: Motherhood in Solas and All About My Mother” in Construcciones culturales de la maternidad en Espana: La madre y la relacion madre-hija en la literatura y el cine contemporaneo (Cultural construction of motherhood in Spain: The Mother and the Mother Daughter relationship in contemporary literature and film); ed. Cinta Ramblado-Minero, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer Universidad de Alicante
Online publications
- February 2012 – “The American Friend”, sensesoncinema, Cinematheque Annotations on Film, www.sensesofcinema.com
- October 2011 – “Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa”, sensesoncinema, Cinematheque Annotations on Film, www.sensesofcinema.com
Refereed journal articles
- Forthcoming Summer 2012 to International Journal of Iberian Studies, “Globalization, regional television and national identity: The case of Vaya Semanita/What a week”
- May 2009: “Water, window, moon: Visual metaphors in Julio Medem’s Lucia y el sexo” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies , vol15, no 1.
- September 2007: (with Prof. Alexis Weedon) “Celebrating Book Culture: The Aims and Outcomes of UNESCOs World Book and Copyright Day in Europe”, Publishing Research Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 224-34
- December 2003: "¿De qué va la película?: Film and female spectatorship in four women’s short stories", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, "(Volume) 9/(Number)2 pp.139-148
Presentations at conferences
- January 2012: “Globalization, regional television and national identity: The case of Vaya Semanita/What a Week” MECCSA, University of Bedfordshire
- September 2009: Convenor of international television panel at ACIS conference, Dublin
- September 2006: “Por fin los vascos hacen humor: el fenomeno social y televisivo de Vaya Semanita” ACIS Annual Conference, University of Minho in Braga, Portugal
- September 2004: “Postmodernism, Popular Culture and Violence in de la Iglesia’s Muertos de la Risa and 800 Balas”, ACIS Annual Conference, University of Limerick
- March 2004: "Water, Moon, Window: Visual Metaphors In Julio Medem´s Lucia y el Sexo", AHGBI Annual Conference, University of Cambridge
Contact Details
T: +44 (0)1234 489028
E: carlota.larrea@beds.ac.uk
