Dr. I. (Irene) Villaescusa Illán
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About
Irene Villaescusa Illán is Assistant Professor in the Literary and Cultural Analysis Program (LCA). She has been working at the UvA since 2015. Prior to the Netherlans she was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.
Her research interests include peripheral or border Hispanic literatures (with an specialization on Philippine literature written in Spanish) with an emphasis on gender, eco/feminism and transculturation.
She is currently working on a Starter Grant Project on Speculative Fiction for which there is a job (PhD) opening if you are interested (https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-on-Speculative-Fiction-and-Imaginaries-of-the-Future/802056002/). (until September 27th)
Links to recent (academic and non-academic) publications:
Nostalgia for the Everyday Life (The HongKonger), May 2024
Transcultural Objects from the Global Hispanophone (IIAS Newsletter Focus, Guest Editor) June 2023
Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina (Brill, Book Chapter) 2022
Resistencia, multilingüismo y nostalgia: usos del español, el inglés y el tagalo en la literatura filipina en español (Aracne, Book Chapter) 2021
Transcultural Nationalism in Hipanofilipino Literature (Palgrave MacMillan) 2020
Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Palgrave MacMillan, Editor) 2019
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Education
2017 PhD Cultural Analysis – ASCA, University of Amsterdam
2012 MA Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies – University of Hong Kong
2010 MA Applied Linguistics to Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language – Universidad Antonio de Nebrija
2002 Postgraduate Certificate of Education (CAP) – Universidad de Granada
2001 BA English Philology – Universidad de Murcia and University of Leeds
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Publications
2022
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2022). Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina. In R. Ortuño Casanova, & A. Gasquet (Eds.), El desafío de la modernidad en la literatura hispanofilipina (1885–1935) (pp. 235-255). (Foro Hispánico; Vol. 67). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514065_014 [details]
2021
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2021). Resistencia, globalización y nostalgia: usos del español, el inglés y el tagalo en la literatura filipina en español. In R. Enghels, D. Castilleja, & A. Vande Casteele (Eds.), Cruzando fronteras: español es inglés en contacto: Prácticas lingüísticas, ideologías e identidades (Vol. 4, pp. 301-329). (Cruzando fronteras: español e inglés en contacto : prácticas lingüísticas, ideologías e identidades). Aracne. https://doi.org/10.53136/979125994201213 [details]
2020
Boter, B., & Villaescusa Illán, I. (2020). Self-Fashioning and Othering: Modern Women’s Double Strategies of Travel Writing. Feminismo/s, 36, 77-102. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2020.36.04 [details]- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2020). Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature. (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51599-7 [details]
2019
- Ferdinand, S., Villaescusa-Illán, I., & Peeren, E. (2019). Introduction. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. In S. Ferdinand, I. Villaescusa-Illán, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (pp. 1-39). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_1 [details]
- Ferdinand, S., Villaescusa-Illán, I., & Peeren, E. (Eds.) (2019). Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2 [details]
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2019). Transcultural Orientalism: Re-writing the Orient from the Philippines and Latin America. UNITAS, 92(1), 288-317. http://unitasust.net/?filter_by=authors&search_from=archive_page&s=Irene+Villaescusa [details]
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2019). Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature. In S. Ferdinand, I. Villaescusa-Illán, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (pp. 125-147). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_6 [details]
2018
- Villaescusa-Illán, I. (2018). Un paseo por la modernidad: Reflexiones de Paz Mendoza en Notas de Viaje (1929). Revista de crítica literaria lationamericana, 44(88), 267-290. https://www.academia.edu/38242525/Un_paseo_por_la_modernidad_reflexiones_de_Paz_Mendoza_en_sus_Notas_de_Viaje_1929_ [details]
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Ancillary activities
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Boter, B., & Villaescusa Illán, I. (2020). Self-Fashioning and Othering: Modern Women’s Double Strategies of Travel Writing. Feminismo/s, 36, 77-102.