Kirsty Hooper is an Associate Professor and Reader in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. She specializes in Spanish, Anglo-Spanish and Galician cultural history and literature since 1800. Her studies focus on networks of people, books and ideas emerging out of contact between Spain and other cultures since 1800, in relational approaches to cultural history, and in the use of digital technologies for humanities research.
Published books include Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: Between the Local and the Global (MLA, 2011; co-edited with Manuel Puga Moruxa); Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics(Liverpool UP, 2011); A Stranger in My Own Land: Sofía Casanova (1861-1958), a Spanish Writer in the European fin de siècle(Vanderbilt UP, 2008); Reading Iberia: History, Theory, Identity(Peter Lang, 2007; co-edited with Helena Buffery & Stuart Davis). She is currently working on two digital history projects, Hispanic Liverpool and The Atlantis Project: Women and Words in Spain, 1890-1936, and writing two books: a co-authored Cultural History of Modern Spanish Literature for Polity Press, and The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession, which traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about Spain between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the end of World War I.
Sponsored by the Iberian Studies Working Group of the Humanities Institute.
