Dr Kathryn Crameri

MA (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer and Chair of Department
Room 717 MacCallum Brennan Building (A18)
Telephone: +61 2 9351 4085
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There are two main elements to my research: contemporary literature written in Catalan or by Spanish-speaking Catalans, and Catalan nationalism. My latest publication is a book on the cultural policy of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia from 1980-2003. Dealing with issues of national identity and cultural nationalism in the context of globalisation, multiculturalism and the commodification of culture, the book looks at how the government attempted to tackle these challenges. Specific areas covered include language policy, literature, cinema, the media, traditional culture and cultural policy regarding immigration. I am also continuing my interest in the author Jesús Moncada.

My teaching interests lie in the culture, society and politics of Spain since the end of the Civil War (1939), and regionalism and nationalism in Spain and Western Europe.

• The Catalan novel in the 20th and 21st centuries
• Contemporary literature written in Spanish by Catalans
• Cultural and linguistic policy in Catalonia
• Catalan nationalism

• Jesús Moncada: An Introduction Edited volume with contributions from Hèctor Moret and Sandrine Ribes for the Anglo-Catalan Society's Occasional Publications

Books

• Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy 1980-2003 University of Wales Press (forthcoming 2008).
• Language, The Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia (Oxford: Legenda, 2000).

Book Chapters

• 'Teaching and Research the "Other" Cultures of Spain,' in Reading Iberia: Theory/History/Identity, ed. by Helena Buffery, Stuart Davis, and Kirsty Hooper (Peter Lang, 2007).
• 'La política cultural catalana (1980-2003) y los escritores catalanes de expresión castellana', in La cultura catalana de expresión castellana. Estudios de literatura, teatro y cine ed. by Stewart King (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2005).
• 'Constructing a Bridge Between Cultures: Catalan Cultural Policy and the New Immigration', in Border Crossings: Mapping Identities in Modern Europe, ed. by Peter Wagstaff (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004).

Articles

• ‘Més que nostàlgia: la memòria i Jesús Moncada’, Urc, November 2006.
• 'Official, Artificial or (Arte)factual?: The Museu d’Història de Catalunya', International Journal of Iberian Studies, 19/2 (2006).
• 'Forging the Community: Explorations of Memory in Two Novels by Jesús Moncada', The Modern Language Review, 98/2 (2003).
• (with Frederic Barberà), Special Issue of National Identities (4/3, 2002), containing a selection of the proceedings of the conference on Peripheral Identities in the Iberian Context (Lancaster, March 2001). Edited with jointly-written Introduction.
• 'The Location of Myth in Camí de sirga by Jesús Moncada', Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies, 8/1 (2002).
• 'Banal Catalanism?', National Identities, 2/2 (2000).
• 'The Role of Translation in Contemporary Catalan Culture', Hispanic Research Journal, 1/2, 2000.
• 'The Future of Catalanism' (Review article), Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 1/1, 2000.
• 'Storytelling and Collective Memory in the Novels of Montserrat Roig', Donaire, 5, 1995.

Teaching

• Advanced Language
• Spanish Culture 1
• Cultural and Social Change in Spain
• Introduction to Spanish Translation
• First year lectures on Spain

Supervision

Current candidates

• MPhil candidate: working on the Press in Venezuela

Past candidates

• MA dissertations: on Carmen Gómez Ojea, language planning in Valencia, Valencian identity
• PhD candidates: on Quim Monzó, the post-war Catalan novel, Spanish cultural policy

• ‘Peripheral Identities in the Iberian Context’, Lancaster University, U.K., 2001
• ‘Reciprocal Gazes on the Iberian/British Other’, Lancaster University, U.K., 2004

• Member of the Anglo-Catalan Society (Honorary Treasurer from 2004-6)
• Member of AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia)