Dr Henriette Partzsch
- Senior Lecturer (Hispanic Studies)
telephone:
01413302313
email:
Henriette.Partzsch@glasgow.ac.uk
Modern Languages & Cultures, 220a, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS
Biography
After being awarded a Doctorate at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, I worked in Spanish Studies at the Universities of Basle, Geneva and St Andrews before joining the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow in 2014.
Research interests
Currently, I am working on a monograph with the provisional title Women in print in nineteenth-century Spain: Fashion periodicals, emotion and money (with Manchester University Press). It explores the function and functioning of a medium providing exceptional opportunities for women’s participation as readers, writers and professionals in Spanish literary culture. The book is an invitation to take a long-term perspective on the questions of which voices are heard and acknowledged in publishing, under which conditions, and with what consequences.
This project stems from a longstanding interest in gender and the history of Spanish literary culture in a comparative and transnational context, which I was privileged to nurture as a member of the research network and COST-ACtion Women Writers in History, led by Dr Suzan van Dijk (Huygens Institute, Netherlands), as a member of several Spanish collaborative research projects (please see below) and an enthusiastic participant in the activities of the International Nineteenth-Century Hispanism Network. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the movement of texts, objects and people, and how their flows are channelled, facilitated, made more difficult, or stopped altogether. This involves for instance thinking about materiality, translation processes, emotion, how the emerging capitalist economy shaped the media landscape and the effects of national borders while also engaging in textual analysis and close reading.
Grants
- Género, política y emociones en el largo siglo XIX. Los tránsitos de la modernidad en España en perspectiva global (2023-2027 named team member) (PID2022-139190NB-I), led by Professor Mónica Burguera (UNDED) and financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Desde los márgenes. Cultura, experiencia y subjetividad en la modernidad: género, política y saberes (siglos XVII-XIX) (2019-2022, named team member) (PGC2018-097445-A-C22), led by Professor Mónica Burguera (UNED) and fincanced by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
- Prácticas culturales y esfera pública: editoras españolas y latinoamericanas (2017-2019, named team member) (FFI2016-76037-P, Convocatoria I + D Excelencia), led by Prof. Pura Fernández (CSIC) and financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad
- Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women's Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain) (Sept 2013-Aug 2016, project leader). The international project researched cultural encounters through reading and writing that crossed and often transcended borders of different kinds (nation, gender, class, religion), by finding out and comparing what texts written by women circulated in our fringe countries during the long nineteenth-century, who read them and what readers thought about and did with them. For further information please consult the archived project website of Travelling Texts.
Supervision
I welcome PhD proposals and ideas for Post-Doc fellowships linked to my research interests and expertise.
At the moment, I am co-supervising a PhD project on gender in Spanish Fantasy and Science Fiction and an MRes project on migrant women in Argentina around 1900. I am also mentoring a Leverhulme Early-Career research fellow working on Spanish costume books in the long nineteenth century.
- Castellano-Banuls, Fernando
Writing and Reading Gender in Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy (1990-2020) - Jin, Yujia
Representations of the Italian Renaissance in the 21st Century: the Borgia and Medici Families stories on the small screen
Past (co)supervisions
PhD theses
Judith Rideout, Women's Writing Networks in Spanish Magazines around 1900 (completed 2017)
Victoria de Lorenzo, Connecting Threads: The Transnational Textile Trade between Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Spanish-speaking world (Co-supervisors: Dr Kirsten Kininmonth, Accounting & Finance, and Dr Sally Tuckett, History of Art), funded by a Lord Kelvin/ Adam Smith grant (completed 2024)
Konstantinos Neuma, A critical metaphysics of economy (oikonomia): dramatizing G. Deleuze’s reading of Plato, Stoics, Spinoza and Byzantines (with Professor Nathan Widder, Royal Holloway) (completed 2025)
MRes thesis
Alison McNaughton, Vindicación Feminista: Translating Feminism across National and Historical Boundaries during the Spanish Transition to Democracy (with Professor Penny Morris) (completed 2018)
Teaching
I have been teaching and convening at all levels, from first year to PG level, on a wide range of topics and courses:
Hispanic Studies
HISP1007 Spanish Culture 1 - former convenor
HISP1008 Spanish Language 1 (Beginners) - current convenor
HISP2010 Spanish Culture 2 - former convenor
HISP2011 Spanish Language 2
HISP4089 Spanish Honours Written Language (Junior) - former convenor
HISP4090 Spanish Honours Written Language (Senior) - former convenor
HISP4104 Cultural and Social Change in Contemporary Spain (Honours option)
HISP4110 Women and Spanish Society, 1833-1931: From the Wars over Female Succession to Women's Suffrage (Honours option)
HISP4132 Fashions Past: The Culture of Clothing in Nineteenth-century Spain (current Honours option)
Comparative Literature
COMPLIT1a Heroes (Heroic Men)
COMPLIT4002 Intercultural Readings - former convenor
COMPLIT4003 Theories of Reading -
COMPLIT5030 An Introduction to Comparative Literature - former co-convenor
COMPLIT5031 Comparative Literature in Practice - former co-convenor
MODLANG5009 Transnational Constructions of Gender - current convenor
I am very proud that students nominated me twice for a teaching award, in the categories of 'Best Practice in Inclusive Education' (2021) and 'Best Teacher in the College of Arts and Humanities' (2024).
Additional information
I have served the School of Modern Languages and Cultures as Internationalisation Officer, Postgraduate Convenor (taught and research), Deputy convenor of the MLitt Comparative Literature, Co-convenor of the Research Cluster Writing in Transit, and Spanish Programme Director. I also had the honour of officially hosting the Leverhulme Visiting Professor César Domínguez with the project 'Rethinking Comparative Literature and Translation Studies against an Environmental Background' at SMLC in 2022 and 2023.
My contribution to the PGR community was recognised by one of the two inaugural Joe Russo Kindness Awards (2023), recognising and celebrating conduct such as promoting empathy, kindness and connection within in the PGR community.
As far as service to the wider academic community is concerned, I am editor of the Comparative Literature Section of Modern Languages Open and member of the editorial boards of the series Studies in Comparative Literature published by Legenda, the journal Knjiženstvo: Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture and the Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies. I peer review academic articles, mauscripts and grant applications, and I have served as international expert on grant evaluation panels at the National Science Centre, Poland.
In 2020-2021, I was appointed external examiner for the Comparative Literature programme and MLitt programme by the School of Modern Languages of the University of St Andrews (end date: summer 2026).
