Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Deputy Chair (Research), Faculty of Arts
Tel: +44 (0) 2476 150719
Email: alison dot menezes at warwick dot ac dot uk
Fourth Floor, Faculty of Arts Building,
University of 海角社区
Coventry CV4 7AL
About
Alison's research focuses cultural memory in the Hispanic world, particularly memory as practice. She read Spanish and French at St Anne's College, Oxford, completing a DPhil in Spanish in 1997. From 1995 to 2012 she lectured in the Department of Spanish at University College Dublin. She moved to 海角社区 in 2012 to lead the establishment of the new Hispanic Studies department, of which she was Head until 2015. She is currently Deputy Chair (Research) of the Faculty of Arts.
Alison has held visiting positions at the Centre for Comparative Study, University of Lisbon; the School of Advanced Study, University of London; Brown University, Rhode Island; and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research has attracted awards from the Irish Research Council, the European Union, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Current research
The Disappeared
Alison is currently writing a monograph on cultural engagements with disappearance in Argentine and Chilean culture, exploring the iconography used to both protest human rights violations and demand accountability for state terrorism. She also works with Ephemeral Ensemble on the award-winning theatre production, . The play is inspired by Alison's work on disappearance and her oral history research with Chilean exiles in the UK (below). You can listen to Alison discussing REWIND in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame) post cast series .
Other projects
Voices of Humanitarianism: British Responses to Refugees from Chile
How did British people respond to the plight of Chileans fleeing persecution after President Augusto Pinochet鈥檚 1973 coup? What were the experiences of the approximately 3,000 Chileans who came to the UK, and how do they now remember the welcomes they received across the country?
This AHRC Research Development and Engagement Fellowship builds on Alison's earlier work on Chilean Exiles and World University Service, and explores the plight of Chilean refugees who fled the country after the military coup of September 1973, when the Chilean Armed Forces overthrew Salvador Allende's government. It also focuses on the memories of second-generation Chileans who grew up in exile, as well as the reflections and motivations of those who supported Chileans. Alison is working in collaboration with Dr Ver贸nica D铆az Cerda.
Alison is interested in the public engagement aspects of academic work, and continues to be invited to contribute on memory in Spain. She is a member of the team which developed the first .
Conflict Transformation in Colombia
Alison developed research on conflict transformation in Colombia in collaboration with Dr Mar铆a Estrada-Fuentes (Royal Holloway, University of London). The project, supported by 海角社区 International Partnership Funds, includes collaboration with Alejandro Garz贸n and Otoniel Romero from the Agencia para la Reincorporaci贸n y la Normalizaci贸n (ARN).
Chilean Exiles and World University Service
With Professor John King, Alison led an to explore and capture the history of 海角社区's role in helping Chilean exiles, following the 1973 coup, thanks to . The story of WUS and its assistance to nearly one thousand Chileans was featured on the BBC's One Show in early 2018. WUS celebrated its centenary, with a on its work.
Monographs
- (Tamesis, 2005).
- , co-authored with Catherine O鈥橪eary (Tamesis, 2008).
- (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Edited Volumes
- co-edited with Roberta Quance and Anne Walsh (Verbum, 2009).
- co-edited with Catherine O鈥橪eary (Peter Lang, 2011).
- , co-edited with Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-S谩nchez (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
- , co-edited with Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-S谩nchez (London: Bloomsbury: 2023; paperback 2025).
- Handbook of Memory Studies in Spain and Portugal, co-edited with Ellen Sapega (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
Journal Special Issues
- , co-edited with Stewart King, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 94/8 (2017).
- Editor special journal dossier on Chilean Exiles in the UK, Journal of Refugee Studies; articles by Alison and Jasmine Gideon, introduction by Alison, 35/3 (2022).
- Editor, special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies, , 25/1 (2025).
Recent Book Chapters
鈥楾he Enchantment and Disenchantment of the Archival Image: Politics and Affect in Portuguese Cultural Memories of the Salazar Dictatorship and Carnation Revolution鈥�, in Jennie M. Carlsten and Fearghal McGarry (eds), Film, History and Memory (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 65-82.鈥楩rom Liquid to Illiquid Modernity: Spanish Story-Telling in the New Millennium鈥�, in Anne L. Walsh (ed.), Telling Tales: The Place of Story-Telling in Contemporary Spain (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), pp. 146-65.鈥極n Civil-War Memory in Spanish Women鈥檚 Narratives: The Example of Cristina Fern谩ndez Cubas鈥� Cosas que ya no existen鈥�, in Peter Tame and Manuel Bragan莽a (eds.), The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe At War, 1936-2016 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015), pp. 60-73.鈥楻epresenting the Disappeared in Lita Stantic鈥檚 Un muro de silencio (1993)鈥�, On Replacement, ed. Naomi Segal and Jean Owen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 147-158.'Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War', in Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War: Connected and Contested Histories, edited by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-S谩nchez (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 1-18.鈥楾he Necropolitics of Spain鈥檚 Civil-War Dead鈥�, in Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War: Connected and Contested Histories, edited by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-S谩nchez (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 115-37.'Memory Beyond the Anthropocene: The Tactile Rhetorics of Patricio Guzm谩n's Nostalgia de la luz and El bot贸n de n谩car', in Beyond the Rhetorics of Pain, edited by Berenike Jung and Stella Bruzzi (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 101-19.鈥楾he Archival Turn in Portuguese Women鈥檚 Documentary Making鈥�, Portuguese Women Filmmakers, ed. Hilary Owen and Mariana Liz (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 150-168.'Tactile Translations: Re-Locating the Northern Irish Disappeared', in Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory and Culture, ed. by Suannah Radstone and Rita Wilson (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 27-40.'New Cultural Directions', in A Handbook of the Spanish Civil War, ed. Antonio Cazorla-S谩nchez, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Adrian Shubert (London: Bloomsbury: 2023), pp. 463-480.Recent Journal Articles
鈥極ut of the Labyrinth? Television Memories of Revolution and Return in Contemporary Portugal鈥�, Journal of Romance Studies, 16/2 (2016), 76-95.
'Introduction: The Future of Memory in Spain', with Stewart King, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 94/8 (2017), 793-99.
'Memory as Disruption: Entanglements of Memory and Crisis in Contemporary Spain', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 94/8 (2017), 883-901.
'Recovering Refugee Stories: Chilean Exiles and World University Service', Journal of Refugee Studies, 35/3 (2022), 1073-1088 (available online at: ).
'A Grammar of Care: Morality, Embodied Emotion and the Work of Reintegration and Reincorporation in Colombia', co-authored with Mar铆a Alejandra Estrada Fuentes, Performance Research, 27/6-7 (2023), 136-143.
鈥楽urrogation as Intergenerational Transmission of Memory: Examples from Pedro Almod贸var and In锚s Pedrosa鈥�, in Paulo de Medeiros, ed. Journal of Romance Studies special issue, Memory, Trauma, Politics: A Lusophone Triangulation, 22/4 (2024), 131-152.
'Transgressive Memory: REWIND' (with Ramon Ayres), Contemporary Theatre Review, 34/4 (2024), 506-509.
'Entanglements of Memory and Sustainability', Journal of Romance Studies, 25/1 (2025), 177.
'The Disenchantments and Re-Enchantments of remembrance: ecologies of memory and violence in Trujillo, Colombia', Journal of Romance Studies, 25/1 (2025), 91-114.
Qualifications
- MA DPhil (Oxon).
Office hours
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