Staff profiles
Dr Ana María Sánchez-Arce
BA, PGCE, MA, MA, PhD
Phone 0114 225 4055
E-mail a.m.sanchez-arce@shu.ac.uk
Current work
I am interested in contemporary literature, particularly postcolonial writing in Britain, the censorship of literature and women's writing. The underlying concerns of my research are how texts are valued in the contemporary period and the relationship between discourses of identity and literary form.
I am currently writing a monograph on the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar for Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2012) and editing a collection of essays on form and identity in 20th and 21st century literature. My poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.
I am also interested in women's writing and film.
Major publications
Pedro Almodóvar (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2013)
Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature (forthcoming 2013)
'Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature: An Introduction', Ana María Sánchez-Arce (ed.), Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature (forthcoming 2013)
'Formal Identities and Authenticity: How Kazuo Ishiguro was 'Stuck to the Margins'', in Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature (forthcoming 2013) Jonathan Ellis and Ana María Sánchez-Arce
''The unquiet dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Cinema' (with Jonathan Ellis), in Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney (eds) Millennial Cinema: Representations of Memory in Film. (Wallflower Press, forthcoming 2011)
'Today', 'The Shadow', 'Click', 'Tonguepicker' Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 98, July 2009: 71–4
''Authenticism', or The Authority of Authenticity', Mosaic, 40:3, September 2007: 139–155. ed., European Intertexts. Women's Writing in English in a European Context (Peter Lang, 2005)
''My name is Legion': An Exploration of Immigration and Postcoloniality in Intertextual Studies', in Patsy Stoneman and Ana María Sánchez-Arce (eds), European Intertexts. Women's Writing in English in a European Context, Peter Lang, 2005: 41–58
'Invisible Cities: Being and Creativity in Meera Syal's Anita and Me and Ben Okri's Astonishing the Gods', in Philip Laplace and Éric Tabuteau (eds), Cities on the Margin/ On the Margin of Cities: Representations of Urban Space in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2003: 113–130
''Re-Seeding 'Englishness': Agonism in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet and Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia', Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE), vol. 44, 2002: 51–68
'The Prop They Need: Undressing and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie', in Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam (eds), Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War, Rodopi, 2001: 93–110
'Changing States: Exile and Syncretism in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde (1994)', African Literature Today 22, 2000: 77–89
Impact
Organiser of an international conference: Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature, 3–4 July 2009, Sheffield Hallam University
'A Brief Guide to Juggling', Great Expectations: Researchers in Progress (Hull, 2009), University of Hull, June 2009. Plenary lecture
In conversation with Beryl Bainbridge. Brontë Literary Festival at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Organised by the Brontë Society. 6 June 2008, Haworth
Evaluator of submissions for African American Review (refereed journal, the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, US)
