Dr. Olga Albarran Caselles

Biography

Olga Albarran Caselles is a Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia specializing in Hispanic Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia obtained in 2018, an M.A. in Literary Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2009, and a B.A. in Hispanic Philology from the same institution in 2004. Olga has been teaching at UBC since 2010, where she enjoys instructing students in Spanish with a focus on cultural representations of motherhood, the intersection of reproduction and feminism, and literary theory. Her research interests include exploring how motherhood is represented in contemporary literary works, particularly in Spanish literature. She has edited several volumes, including 'Procreación. Escritura y maternidad en la España contemporánea' (2022) and 'Maternidades imaginadas: representaciones y disidencias en el siglo XXI' (2024). Olga has also contributed articles in refereed journals that examine infertility, desire for motherhood, and cultural discussions surrounding motherhood in literature.