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Sarah Wright

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Professor of Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Head of Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures. President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland AHGBI. Editor-in-Chief @SpanishBulletin & BSVS

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
'Carmen Conde: Politics and Poetry from the 1940s to the Transition' by Jean Andrews @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Carmen Conde: Politics and Poetry from the 1940s to the Transition
The Spanish poet Carmen Conde’s literary career spanned seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Resident in Spain throughout her life, a small but significant proportion of her poetic output is...
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Andrea Hepworth examines spatial, digital & virtual methodologies—civic initiatives, social media & immersive tech—foster engagement with ‘difficult heritage’ of Spanish deportees to Nazi concentration camps, the legacy of Franco's regime & Holocaust remembrance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Members of the Amical de Neuengamme attending the inauguration of the Spanish memorial. Photograph by Natalia Kataeva. Reproduced by permission of Foundation of Hamburg Memorials.
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We have extended deadline for submission to our special issue on video essays to August 31, 2026 - due to phenomenal interest! Check out our video below for all the info. vimeo.com/1155559764?f...
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Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
The Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies welcomes innovative research in videographic criticism. LINKS to key information: Call for papers: CFP Information for authorsL:…
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Congratulations to @elizabethscarlett.bsky.social whose article 'Gender and Adaptation in the Filmic Legacy of Emilia Pardo Bazán' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... was awarded a distinction by The Adela Zamudio essay competition, run by Feministas Unidas.
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a congratulations card with a firework display in the background
ALT: a congratulations card with a firework display in the background
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Calling all video essay practitioners in Spanish and Latin American Studies - submit to our special issue Moving Images/Moving Geographies: Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures Details below go.qub.ac.uk/G6kbc
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New issue out! Feat. Sarah Bowskill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on how prize network marginalises Mexican women authors; Sandra González Basanta @universidadoviedo.bsky.social 'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos de Ana María Matute' www.tandfonline.com/toc/cbhs20/c...
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Volume 102, Issue 7 of Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I am certain that if we had mainstream language learning pathways from 16-18, we would have a greater pool of applicants for university philology degrees. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/10/h...
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How the manufactured narrative of ‘failure’ is distracting us from resolving the systemic problems holding back the study of Modern Languages – Part 2.  - HEPI
This post was kindly written by Vincent Everett, who is head of languages in a comprehensive school and sixth form in Norfolk. He blogs as The Nice Man Who Teaches Languages.  In Part 1, I looked at h...
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📢 Galician Studies panel at the AHGBI Annual Conference 2026, hosted by @lancasteruni.bsky.social Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social. 📩 Enquiries & abstracts: m.veiga@ucc.ie
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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We saw Samara Joy and her brilliant jazz musicians in Santiago, Chile last month. What absolute joy!
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Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway @llc-rhul.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455
A poster for our Clearing Hotline: Tel. +44(0)1784 772455
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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@llc-rhul.bsky.social Open Day @royal holloway
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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Getting ready to meet everyone at today's Open Day @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social!
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Few obituaries of Forsyth mention that his remarkable career (whatever one thinks of his retrograde politics) was possible because he took the time to make himself fluent in five languages. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Frederick Forsyth: adventurer and bestselling spy novelist
A pilot who turned to writing to clear his debts, British author Frederick Forsyth, who died Monday aged 86, penned some 20 spy novels, often drawing on real-life experiences and selling 70 million co...
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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Shout out to our Inter-Library team in the Library @royalholloway.bsky.social. I have recently placed two requests for specialist articles and they were sent to me the same day - fantastic service! 👏
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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
So wonderful to celebrate Ann Hobbs, administrator extraordinaire in the Humanities team today, who has spent 30 years at Royal Holloway!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
'If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had.' Michael Rosen nails it again.
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
These are good, but my favourite example of this genre remains Dr Weliton Menário Costa's 2024 'Kangaroo Time': informative, inclusive and utterly joyful doctoral science: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Eurovision meets science, dance your PHD competition winners
Could you explain
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Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway @llc-rhul.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière. The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
📚Colleagues might be interested in this co-authored piece by AHGBI member María Delgado on the potential impact of decoupling outputs from individuals in the REF—just out on Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/portab... #REF #HigherEd #AHGBI
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Portability within REF remains key to fairness
Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
On Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8
Podcast Episode · Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · 04/16/2025 · 45m
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Now live open.spotify.com/episode/3FHu...
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8
Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · Episode
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Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I really enjoyed presenting on MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the British Film Institute Reuben Library last night, and celebrating the publication of my BFI Film Classics volume on the film. Thank you *very* much to everyone who came, and to those who bought copies of the book! 1/2
A photo of myself (a middle-aged guy wearing glasses) presenting in the BFI library, with a screen in the background.The library entrance, with my presentation visible on the screen inside.The BFI programme for April, open at the page listing my event.
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Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I’m looking forward to talking about MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the BFI library in London this coming Monday, 6.30pm. More info and link to tickets here👇
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Buy cinema tickets for New Writings: ‘People on Sunday’ and the Cultural Networks of Weimar Berlin with Dr Jon Hughes | BFI Southbank
2025-04-14T18:30:00.000
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Ann Davies @anndavies.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Out in July: my book on space and place in Spanish horror and Gothic. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
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The Nightmares of Presence
From haunted houses to sandy beaches, The Nightmares of Presence explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With an em…
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A wonderful evening of conversation and shared commitment to the promotion of Spanish language and culture ☀️☀️
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We were also delighted to be joined by the wonderful team from SPLAS, including Marian Aldaz Aréchaga, curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, and Dr. Carlos Soler Montes, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Head of SPLAS at the University of Edinburgh.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Luis Garcia Montero on the importance of Hispanism, and of Humanities, at the opening ceremony
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Luis García Montero at the opening of this year's AHGBI Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh: "la gran tarea del hispanismo es difundir la transnacionalidad, para aprender y respetar la mirada del otro"
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Prof. Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social), president of AHGBI, with Caroline Boyle, Chilean Consul ☀️
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Parallel Session I: Medieval Studies (Room G.01, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh). Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Keah Amy Dixon (Universidade da Coruña): “En castellano en el original”: Dolores Vilavedra’s Spanish Translations of Galician Narrative from a Transcultural Perspective” (Project Room 1st Floor, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh).
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Parallel session I: Jackie Stirling (Queen Mary University) on Feminising the Amigo Americano and the Queer Carnivalesque in 50s Spain (Room G.02, 50GS). Full title: “Feminising the 'amigo americano': Florián Rey’s La moza de cántaro (1954) and the Queer Carnivalesque”
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Estoria de Espanna Digital estoria.bham.ac.uk @estoriadespanna.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Annual conference of the AHGBI under way! AGM in full flow. @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Another glorious day in Edinburgh. ¡El tiempo nos acompaña y no podemos pedir más! ☀️☀️☀️☀️
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
See you in a bit for Day 2 of the #AHGBI_2025_Conference_at_Edinburgh. Edinburgh is showing its sunny side again for Day 2. ¡Disfrutad del sol mientras dure! ☀️☀️☀️☀️
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Lovely memories from last night, both at the Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner at #cafeandaluzedinburgh 🥂 Great food, even better company — thank you all for such a warm and joyful evening!
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ben Griffiths (University of Birmingham) discusses misleading editorial strategies of 17th century printer-booksellers.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
María Xesús Nogueira Pereira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) discussing insects in contemporary Galician poetry. Title: “Entre o (humano)animal e o posthumano. A poesía galega sobre as abellas”.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
María Xesús Nogueira Pereira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) discussing insects in contemporary Galician poetry. Title: “Entre o (humano)animal e o posthumano. A poesía galega sobre as abellas”.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Oliver Baldwin (Universidade de Lisboa) on Kassandra. Full title: “Kassandra: Tragedia Trans/Queer”.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Day 2 ☀️ Roundtable: Marginalised Voices in Iberian Television and Streaming with Miguel García (University of Bristol), Matthew Hilborn (University College Dublin), Abigail Loxham (University of Liverpool) and Fiona Noble (University of Stirling). Moderated by Miguel García (University of Bristol).
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sophie Stevens (Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study): “Misinformation meets ‘poner el cuerpo’: What is the Impact on Vulnerable, at Risk or Marginalised Women’s Bodies?
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Catherine O’Leary reveals future traumas and memories that take shape in La mucama de Omicunlé (2015) by Rita Indiana.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Day 2 ☀️ Rocío Peñalta Catalán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) presenta sobre las similitudes y diferencias entre 'La amortajada' y 'La tercera resignación'.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Have you ever wondered if you're using the colon correctly? 🤔
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🔴Happening right now! Plenary session with Prof. Catherine Boyle (King’s College London) in Lecture Theatre G.03 at 50 George Square. Prof. Boyle is AHGBI's Past President and Chair of Trustees.
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today’s plenary talk at AHGBI 2025 was by Dr Jesse Barker (University of Aberdeen), who spoke on “Frames of Nature: Ecology and Politics in Visual Media (1928–2024).”
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