Dr. Alejandra Barriales Bouche

Biography

Alejandra Barriales-Bouche holds a Licenciatura in Spanish Philology from the University of Oviedo (1997) and received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2003). She has worked as an Assistant Professor of Spanish from 2003 to 2009 and an Associate Professor from 2010 to 2012 at Suffolk University before joining the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University in 2012. Barriales-Bouche has also taught at Mount Holyoke College and Concordia University. Her main research interests include literature of exiles during the Spanish Civil War and Spanish cinema. She has published articles on poetry by Luis Cernuda, Pedro Garfias, and Rafael Alberti, as well as on autobiographical texts by Federica Montseny. Additionally, she has served as an editor for significant works including "España: ¿laberinto de exilios?" (2005) and co-editor of "Zoom Zoom: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema" (2007).

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