Dr Azariah Alfante
- Lecturer (Hispanic) (Hispanic Studies)
email:
Azariah.Alfante@glasgow.ac.uk
School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building, Room 220A, University of Glasgow, Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS
Biography
Azariah Elikah Quintana Alfante obtained her doctorate in Spanish at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2021. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2023.
Research interests
- 19th-century Spanish cultural studies
- 19th and 20th-century Hispano-Philippine cultural studies
- memory
- ecclesiastical history and patrimony
- secularisation
- anticlericalism
- education and the religious orders in colonial Philippines (Spanish and American)
Grants
Dame Joan Metge & Emeritus Professor Dame Charmian J O'Connor Post-Doctoral Research Award (Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust), 2023.
Supervision
I am happy to supervise postgraduate research projects in the following areas:
- Hispanic Studies (histories, literature, art)
- Postcolonial studies (Southeast Asia and the Pacific)
- Nineteenth-century literature
- Cultural studies
- Religious and ecclesiastical studies
- Cultural memory and heritage
Teaching
Comparative Literature Honours Option: What is a human? Humans, Animals, Machines COMPLIT4041
Spanish Culture 1 (Non-Beginners) HISP1007
Spanish Culture 2 HISP2010
Spanish Dissertation
Spanish Honours Option: Thinking Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Spain HISP4131 (Course Convenor)
Spanish Honours Written Language (Junior) HISP4089
Spanish Honours Written Language (Senior) HISP4090
Spanish Language 1 (Non-Beginners) HISP1009 (Course Convenor)
Translation Studies Honours Option: An Introduction to Key Topics in Theory and Practice MODLANG4012 (Spanish to English)
Additional information
Profiles
Scholarly Associations/Research Groups
- Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea (AEHRC)
- Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG)
- The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)
- International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association (ISHWRA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Rethinking the Secular
Administrative Role
SMLC Exams and Assessment Officer