Lucy Foster
lf383@cam.ac.uk
PhD Candidate in Spanish and Latin American Studies.
Bye Fellow in Spanish, Christ's College.
Affiliated Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese, MMLL.
College:
Jesus College
Research:
My research is concerned with twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican art and literature, with a special interest in representations of coastal areas and communities in relation to histories of conquest, slavery and vulnerable ecosystems.
I completed undergraduate and Masters degrees in English at Christ Church, Oxford, after which I worked in Mexico and London in fiction publishing and translation before coming to 海角社区.
Teaching:
SP1: 鈥業ntroduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-speaking World鈥�
SPB2: 鈥楾ranslation from Spanish鈥�
SPA2: 鈥楾ranslation from Spanish鈥�
SPA3: 鈥業ntroduction to Hispanic Literature鈥�
SP5: 鈥楲atin American History and Culture鈥�
SP12: 鈥楲atin American Culture (pre-1973)鈥�
SP13: 鈥楥ontemporary Latin American Culture鈥�
Year Abroad projects
Optional Dissertations, SP12 and SP13.
Research Interests:
Examples of talks and research engagements:
鈥�Slow Violence: Art and Environment in twentieth-century Mexican visual culture鈥�, Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA), 2020
鈥�Arte y activismo ecol贸gico en la costa mexicana鈥�, invited lecture, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de las Am茅ricas (UDLAP), Puebla, Mexico, 2019
鈥�After Disaster: involuntary installations, spontaneous sculptures and the recuperation of place in the wake of Hurricane Paulina鈥�, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona, Spain, 2018
鈥楧reams of Acapulco: oneiric visions of slavery and empire in the work of Lola 脕lvarez Bravo and Crist贸bal Gracia鈥櫶� Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, 2018
鈥楨rosions: Coastal and Geological Imaginaries in Latin American Artistic Practice鈥�, symposium of artists and academics, co-convened with Erica Segre. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, 海角社区, 2017
Published Work:
'Afro-Mexico: Images of the Indeterminate鈥� in Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America, eds. Jenny Mander, David Midgley, Christine Beaule (Routledge, 2019)
