Dr Nicola Jones
Visiting Research Associate
Nicola joined the Department in October 2017. Prior to her appointment as Visiting Lecturer, she taught at the University of Manchester, where she completed her doctoral thesis in Latin American Cultural Studies in 2016, taught English as a foreign language in Santiago, Chile, and worked as an English Language Assistant at the Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta, Chile.
Nicola also teaches on the Evening Languages Services Project at the University of Chester and delivers Spanish language outreach activities and workshops to secondary school pupils on behalf of the Department.
Nicola teaches on modules across the undergraduate Spanish programme. She teaches on the core language modules for first and second year (post-A level and Beginners), first and second year Spanish and Latin American literature and cultural modules, and final year fiction as film and translation modules. She also teaches elective Spanish language modules, visual culture modules and on the MA programme. Nicola is currently the Erasmus Academic Advisor.
Nicola’s research focuses on the production and consumption of Latin American culture in the UK. Her doctoral thesis examined the discourse of Latin American magical realism in the UK press and the reception of contemporary Latin American cinema through the ¡Viva! film festival in Manchester. This is the subject of her forthcoming monograph, to be published by Tamesis. Nicola is interested in the belonging and community that British audiences can imagine to Latin America through acts of cultural consumption.
Nicola is also interested in the Latin American diaspora in the UK and their production and consumption of Latin American culture whilst living in the UK.
Consuming Latin America: The ¡Viva! Film Festival and Imagined Cosmopolitan Communities (Tamesis, forthcoming).
- MA (Hons) (St Andrews)
- MA (Manchester)
- PhD (Manchester)