Dr. Alejandra Barriales Bouche

Biography

Alejandra Barriales-Bouche holds a Licenciatura in Filología Española from the University of Oviedo (1997) and 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 (2003-2009) and an Associate Professor of Spanish (2010-2012) at Suffolk University before joining the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University in 2012. Alejandra has taught at Mount Holyoke College and Concordia University. Her main research interests include literature of exiles, the Spanish Civil War, and Spanish Cinema. She has published articles on poetry by Luis Cernuda, Pedro Garfias, Rafael Alberti, and autobiographical texts by Federica Montseny. Additionally, she has served as the editor for the book 'España: ¿laberinto de exilios?' (2005) and as a co-editor for 'Zoom Zoom: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema' (2007).

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