Dr Rosanna Hunt
School of Languages and Cultures
Lecturer
Full contact details
School of Languages and Cultures
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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Rosie studied for a BA in Hispanic Studies (Spanish and Portuguese) here in Sheffield. After graduating from Sheffield she went to Manchester to do an MA in Social Anthropology, completing her MA thesis - '"We are missing 43": Embodiment, Virtuality, and Mourning in Mexican Activism for the Disappeared'.
After winning the Vice Chancellor's Award and Cambridge Trust scholarship, she completed her doctoral thesis, ‘Fragmentary States: A Study of Power in Conflict Narratives from Peru and Colombia’, at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Sheffield, Rosie taught at Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge and served on the Tutorial Committee at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. She is cofounder of the Peruvian Research Network (UK and Eire).
- Research interests
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Colombian conflict, 1964-
The Peruvian Internal conflict
Neoliberal power formations in the Andes
The violent agent
Horror cinema
Disability studies.
- Publications and presentations
Publications:
‘Necropolitics in the Andes: Reading the Senderista as Sovereign Subject
or as Subject of Sovereignty in two Peruvian Novels’ Bulletin of Spanish
Studies 97.8 (Oct, 2020)
Review of Palma Africana, by Michael Taussig. Bulletin of Latin American
Research (Nov, 2019) pp. 691-2
'New Approaches to Bodily Provocation in Hispanic Narratives' Chasqui
48.2 (May, 2019) pp. r1-r5
Talks and Presentations:
‘Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure’ Q&A. POLIS Society,
February 12th, 2020, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
‘Insurgent Identities: Reimagining M‐19 guerrilleros in new narratives
on el holocausto del palacio de justicia’. SLAS Annual Conference. April
4th-5th, 2019. University of Leicester
‘From Victimiser to Victim: Imagining the violent agent post-conflict in
contemporary Latin American cinema’. Of Survival and Struggle: Creative
and Critical Responses to Structural and Long-term Violence in the
Public Sphere (Colloquium). June 7th, 2018. Queen Mary University of
London
‘The Mausoleum and the Prison: material and literary sites for the
reclamation of the citizenship of the senderista’. Radical Americas 2017
Conference: Legacies, 11th-12th September 2017, University College,
London
‘The Terrorist in the Archive: writing and reclaiming the senderista as
human’. PILAS Annual Conference 2017: “Discontinuities and Resistance in
Latin America”, 26th-27th June 2017, University of Leeds