Dr Lorraine Ryan

Profile

Dr Lorraine Ryan is an award-winning international researcher and assistant professor at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on cultural memory in Spain, the representation of immigration and masculinity in Spanish culture, and women´s writing in Spanish culture with particular reference to Lucía Etxebarría, Almudena Grandes, Elvira Navarro and Carmen Laforet. She was a visiting fellow at the ILCS (Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies) in 2014-2015 and at the Georg Eckert Institute for School Textbook Research in Leipzig in 2015-16. Her first monograph, Memory and Spatiality in Postmillennial Spanish Narrative was published in 2014. She has recently published a monograph on the leading Spanish writer, Almudena Grandes, which analyses gender and perpetrator memory within her work. As such, it is a major contribution to the study of Spain´s foremost women´s writer. She is currently researching 'alternative masculinities' in contemporary Spanish culture. Another recent research interest is the Mental Health Humanities and Ryan is working on an article on the representation of mental health in Carmen Laforet's Nada.