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Dr Montserrat Lunati – BA (Romance Philology, UA Barcelona), PhD (University of Wales, Cardiff)

Overview

Montserrat Lunati Position: Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Email: Lunati@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 6632
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
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Location: Room 1.04, 65-68 Park Place

My research focuses on contemporary Catalan and Spanish fiction, specifically on women’s writing, short story writing, the politics of discursive irony and gender studies. My work on Imma Monsó reflects these concerns, as well as a growing interest in the representation of illness in literature and cinema. The connections between text, body, and space/place (with its historical connotations), together with the construction of identity/subjectivity through gender, sexuality, nation and language are key areas of my critical work on Monsó and other Spanish and Catalan authors such as Quim Monzó, Mercè Ibarz, Núria Perpinyà or Lolita Bosch. My research is currently moving towards the field of visual studies through a projected monograph on Danish-Spanish artist Eva Koch’s video and photography installations dealing with space, the (re)construction of the past through perception and memory, and the Spanish Civil War. I am also exploring the work of Catalan photographer Mariona Giner, and the work of filmmakers such us Judith Colell, Isabel Coixet, Agustí Villaronga or Marc Reixa.

I am co-founder and co-editor with Jordi Larios of Tesserae, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. The Journal was launched in 1994, it is based in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, and is published by Taylor & Francis (Oxford).

I am the Deputy Director for Teaching and Learning of the School of European Studies.

I co-ordinate the teaching of Catalan Language and Culture in the School and I liaise with the Institut Ramon Llull, the Catalan Government’s Consortium which looks after the dissemination of Catalan Language and Culture abroad.

Selected Publications

(2007) Imma Monsó:La narrativa de la ironia i diferència. Vic (Barcelona): Eumo & Universitat de Vic, ‘Capsa de Pandora’ Feminist Studies Series. ISBN 978-84-9766-239-0.

 (1998) L’art de la ficció, de David Lodge. Translated and Edited, with Introduction and Notes by Montserrat Lunati and Jordi Larios. Barcelona: Empúries. ISBN 84-7596-608-X.

(1998) Viajeros perdidos: Contemporary Spanish Short Stories. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Montserrat Lunati and Jean Andrews. London: Bristol Classical Press. ISBN 1-85399-460-X.

(1997) Días de lluvia / Rainy Days: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Montserrat Lunati. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, Classic Hispanic Series. ISBN 0-85668-635-2 (Cloth) / 0-85668-636-0 (Limp).

Selected Projects

  • Cos, espai i text: Sobre literatura, cinema i fotografia de dones catalanes d'avui [working title]. This monograph will be published in 2013 by Lleonard Muntaner Editor (Palma de Mallorca, Spain). It is an inter-related collection of essays on the interaction of text, space/place and the body in the work of contemporary Catalan women writers, photographers and filmmakers. It deals with a number of issues linking the texts studied in unexpected, stimulating and fruitful ways. These issues include the cultural and (a)political construction of illness; the literary and cinematic representation of personal trauma and its gender and historical dimensions; mourning narratives, their debt to/escape from Freud and their gendered reception; the representation of the past and the Derridean 'accommodation of its ghosts'; the challenge to include the Other without appropriating her/his voice/image; women's struggles to be seen and heard in historically male-dominated territories: either public places such as the city of Barcelona, or Woolfian private spaces where women can be creative. With identity and gender understood as relational concepts as well as concepts in dialogue with time, history and culture, I explore novels, short stories, graphic novels, cinema and photography by writers such as Imma Monsó, Mercè Ibarz, Núria Perpinyà, Lolita Bosch and Carme Guasch, photographer Mariona Giner, and filmmakers Judith Colell and Isabel Coixet. Their texts, all produced in the last fifteen years, are the object of a series of inter-connected, theory-based analyses with a feminist poststructuralist approach.
  • A monograph on Danish-Spanish artist Eva Koch’s video and photography installations dealing with space/ place, the (re)construction of the past through memory and perception, and the long-lasting effects of the Spanish Civil War. I will explore issues of diaspora, gender, family mythologies, ‘post-memory’ and the plight of displaced war children in some of her visual work: Nini, Glimpses of a Woman's Life (1996), En face (1999), and Villar, Manuela's Children (2001).

Research Unit

Languages, Cultures and Ideologies

Publications

Authored books

(2013) Cos, espai i text: Sobre literatura, cinema i fotografia de dones catalanes d'avui. Published by Lleonard Muntaner Editor, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (Forthcoming)

(2007) Imma Monsó:La narrativa de la ironia i la diferència. Vic (Barcelona): Eumo & Universitat de Vic, ‘Capsa de Pandora’ Feminist Studies Series. ISBN 987-84-9766-239-0.

(1995) Newspaper Spanish: A Vocabulary of Administrative and Commercial Idiom, with English Translation. With Charles Kelley and Catrin Redknap. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-1277-2.

Refereed journal articles

'Recordar per oblidar? Trauma i gènere a Elisa Kiseljak (2005), de Lolita Bosch.' (Forthcoming)

'Les fotografies de Mariona Giner, o el repte de no parlar en nom de l'Altre.' (Forthcoming)

(2005) ‘La textualització del càncer a “Millor que no m’ho expliquis” (2003), d’Imma Monsó, i altres construccions culturals de la malaltia’. Catalan Review. International Journal of Catalan Culture, Vol. 19/1-2, pp. 241-262.

(2005) ‘Entrevista a l’escriptora Imma Monsó’. Journal of Catalan Studies. Revista Internacional de Catalanística. Vol. 8, pp.1-31.

(2005) ‘De les màscares de Caterina Albert a la ironia d’Imma Monsó: Estratègies de les escriptores catalanes’. Vèlit. Revista de tot l’Empordà. Vol. 4, pp. 17-19.

(2004-2005) ‘Travelling by the Book: Perpetuating a Masculine Tradition in Ray Loriga’s Caídos del cielo (1995)’. Letras Peninsulares (Davidson College, North Carolina, USA), Vol. 17/2-17/3 (Fall/Winter), pp.427-447.

(2002) ‘Memoria e intertextualidad en “Memoria en venta”, de Laura Freixas’. Moenia, Revista lucense de lingüística & literatura, Vol. 8, pp. 419-430.

(2001) ‘Quim Monzó i la re-escriptura irònica de la fantasia’. Catalan Review. International Journal of Catalan Culture, Vol. 15/1, Spring, pp. 24-59.

(1999) ‘Quim Monzó i el cànon occidental: una lectura de «Pigmalió»’. Journal of Catalan Studies. Revista Internacional de Catalanística, Vol. 2, pp.1-13.

(1998) ‘Re-reading Francesc Trabal: The Man Who Did Not Get Lost’. Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, Vol. 6, pp. 111-129.

(1995) ‘“Samsó i Dalila” d’Àngel Ferran. Un exemple de paròdia i metaficció a la literatura catalana dels anys vint’. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 1/3, pp. 389-417.

Edited books

(2012) Desig de conte: Anthology of Contemporary Catalan Short Stories. Bilingual edition - Catalan/English. Edited with Notes, a General Introduction to Catalan short-story-writing and Individual Introductions to each of the 24 authors included. To be published by The Anglo-Catalan Society, ACSOP Series [online] & Nottingham: Five Leaves Press [book edition].(Forthcoming)

(2012) Días de lluvia / Rainy Days: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Montserrat Lunati. Bilingual edition - Spanish/English, it has been commissioned by Oxbow (Oxford) as a revised and enlarged re-edition of the out-of-print 1997 edition published by Aris & Phillips.(Forthcoming)

(2006) Travelling Texts in Spanish and Spanish America. Special issue of Tesserae, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Co-edited with Claire Lindsay. Vol. 12, nos. 1-2. ISSN 1470-1847.

 (1998) L’art de la ficció, de David Lodge. Translated and Edited, with Introduction and Notes by Montserrat Lunati and Jordi Larios. Barcelona: Empúries. ISBN 84-7596-608-X.

(1998) Viajeros perdidos: Contemporary Spanish Short Stories. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Montserrat Lunati and Jean Andrews. London: Bristol Classical Press. ISBN 1-85399-460-X.

(1997) Días de lluvia / Rainy Days: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Montserrat Lunati. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, Classic Hispanic Series. ISBN 0-85668-635-2 (Cloth) / 0-85668-636-0 (Limp).

Chapters in books

(2010) 'Les parets malaltes, o la fluidesa del viure, a La ciutat en obres, de Mercè Ibarz.' In: La narrativa de Mercè Ibarz. A la ciutat en obres i altres textos. Edited by Christian Camps. Montpellier: Éditions de la Tour Gile, Collection Catalane, 14, pp. 101-116.

(2009) ‘Escriptores, gènere i estudis literaris. Caminant pel carrer en femení als contes urbans de Mercè Ibarz..’ In: Gènere i modernitat a la Catalunya contemporània. Edited by Enric Cassany. Lleida: Punctum & GELCC, pp. 11-39.

2008) 'Collage o trencadís: Quim Monzó, un flâneur a Barcelona.' In: Poètiques de ruptura. Edited by Maria Muntaner, Mercè Picornell, Margalida Pons, Josep Antoni Reynés. Palma: Lleonard Muntaner Editor, pp. 217-239.

(2008) ‘Àngel Ferran, l’humorista desconegut. Apunt biogràfic.’ In: Àngel Ferran, Big Jack el Sanguinari. Edited by Quim Torra. Barcelona: A Contra Vent, ‘Els altres clàssics’, pp. 111-135.

(2007) ‘Breaking Silences, Dealing with the Past: El sur, by Adelaida García Morales (1985) and Víctor Erice (1983)’. Chapter in Spanish Film, Theatre and Literature in the Twentieth Century. Edited by John London and David George. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 146-159.

(2005) ‘“El salt a l’interior de la consciència mòrbida”, o qui és l’Altre/l’Altra a la narrativa d’Imma Monsó’. Los hábitos del deseo: Formas de amar en la modernidad. Carme Riera, Meri Torras, Isabel Clúa & Pau Pitarch (eds). 3 vols. València (Spain) & Caracas (Venezuela): Ediciones Ex Cultura, Vol. 2, pp. 423-434.

(2002) ‘Re-dibuixant els mapes del desig: Imma Monsó i la ironia radical de No se sap mai’. Perversas y divinas: La representación de la mujer en las literaturas hispánicas: El fin de siglo y/o el fin del milenio actual. Carme Riera, Meri Torras & Isabel Clúa (eds). 2 vols. València (Spain) & Caracas (Venezuela): Ediciones Ex Cultura, Vol. 2, pp. 297-307.

(1998) ‘Introducció’ [with Jordi Larios]. L’art de la ficció, de David Lodge. Translated and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Montserrat Lunati and Jordi Larios. Barcelona: Empúries, pp. 7-28.

(1991) ‘L’humor perdut d’Àngel Ferran’. Miscel.lània Joan Fuster. Estudis de Llengua i Literatura, III. A cura d’A. Ferrando i A. G. Hauf. Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, pp. 317-326.

Editorship of journal

I am co-funder and co-editor of Tesserae, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies since 1994. Tesserae, JILAS is based in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, and published by Taylor & Francis, Oxford.

Other publications

(1984) ‘Josep Pla als 28 anys i des de París’. Josep Pla, recordança (1897-1981). Palafrugell: Ajuntament de Palafrugell, pp. 3-7.

Teaching

Teaching Profile

Teaching at the school of european studies, cardiff university (Past & Present)

Undergraduate Level
  • EU5326 Women’s Narratives: Cinema and Literature in Contemporary Spain: Optional Triple Module offered to Year 4 BA and EUS students. It runs on a two-year cycle. It includes critical theory and literary and cinematic texts by Catalan and Spanish women writers and filmmakers.
  • EU5350 Francoism: History and Memory: Optional Triple Module offered to Year 4 BA and EUS students from 2011-12 onwards. Together with Dr Andrew Dowling. It offers a historical survey of the Francoist period, and explores the memory of it through a number of literary and visual works.
  • EU5215 Contemporary Spanish Narrative: Optional Triple Module offered to Year 2 BA and EUS students. It runs on a two-year cycle. It includes texts by contemporary Spanish, Catalan and Galician writers as well an introduction to narratology and critical theory. It also incorporates a visual component (films and documentaries).
  • EU7122 European Fiction: Contribution with Catalan and Spanish texts (novels, short stories & films) to a team-taught triple module offered to all undergraduate Year 2 students of the School of European Studies (languages and politics), which looks into the European narrative tradition and covers texts – studied in translation and in the original, when possible – from Catalonia, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Latin America.
  • EU5211 Spanish Cultural Studies: Compulsory Single Module for Year 2 BA and EUS Ex Beginner students. It deals with literature, cinema and cultural issues of contemporary Spain.
  • Spanish Cinema: Optional Triple Module offered to Year 2 and Year 4 BA and EUS students (1992-2001).
  • Hispanic Avant-garde(s): Optional double module on Catalan and Spanish avant-garde Cinema and Narrative in Pre-Civil War Spain, taught in collaboration with Dr Jordi Larios. Module offered to Year 2 and Year 4 BA and EUS students (1999-2001).
  • EU5109 Spanish Texts: Introduction to Film and Literary Studies: Compulsory Single Module for all BA Year 1 Beginner students, and Optional for EUS Year 1 Advanced students.
  • EU5108 Spanish Texts: Introduction to Film and Literary Studies: Compulsory Single Module for all BA Year 1 Advanced students, and Optional for EUS Year 1 Advanced students.
  • Spanish Language: Grammar, Essay Writing, Translation and Aural Comprehension. At different moments, I have taught all levels: Year 1 (Beginners, Advanced), Year 2 (Ex Beginners, Ex Advanced), and Year 4.
Postgraduate Level

MA in Literature in European Studies/ Literary Pathway: I teach literary theory, travel-writing related theory and novels and films by Catalan and Spanish writers and filmmakers in three of the MA in European Studies Optional Modules:


  • ‘EUT 203 A Sense of Place: Images of Europe in Travel Writing’
  • ‘EUT 205 The Novel and the City’
  • ‘EUT 211 Crossing Borders: Adaptations from Literature to Film’
  • I convene the ‘EUT203 A Sense of Place: Images of Europe in Travel Writing’ Module.
  • I teach 'Intertextuality' in the 'EUT 319 Approaches to Text' Core Module.

MA in Translation Studies:

I teach 'Cultural Studies and Translation' in the 'EUT 401 Theory of Translation' Core Module.

I convene the 'EUT412 Translation and Adaptation in the Arts' Optional Module, and teach 'The poetics and politics of the Carmen myth' in this module.