Lauren Rea

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Lauren’s research interests centre on cultural history and contemporary cultural production in Latin America with a particular focus on Childhood Studies, Education, Popular Culture, Print and Digital Cultures, and Gender Studies.
She is Principal Investigator on the British Academy GCRF Diverse Childhoods and Educational Inequalities in Argentina project and co-director of the Great Latin American Women Project (grandesmujeres.lat). Her book on the history of the Argentine children's magazine "Billiken" is under contract with White Rose University Press.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield
  • 2018–present
    Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures , University of Sheffield

Education

  • 2009 
    King's College London , PhD

Publications

  • 2019
    100 Grandes Mujeres Latinoamericanas, Editorial Atlántida
  • 2019
    Trajectories in Argentine Children’s Literature: Constancio C. Vigil and Horacio Quiroga, International Research in Children's Literature
  • 2019
    The Newsboy’s Good Deed: Billiken Magazine’s Construction of Argentine Childhood in 1942, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
  • 2018
    Education, popular literature and future citizenship in Argentina’s Billiken children’s magazine (1919–1944), Global Studies of Childhood
  • 2015
    Afro-porteñas in Héctor Pedro Blomberg’s Historical Romances, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
  • 2013
    Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930-1943, Routledge
  • 2012
    Los que se fueron y los que se quedaron: History, exile andcensorship in Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial and ManuelPuig's Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
  • 2011
    'Que al fin todas somos Eva': Nacha Guevara, Cristina Fernandez and Eva, el gran musical argentino, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    Diverse Childhoods and Educational Inequalities in Argentina
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    British Academy GCRF
  • 2020
    The Great Latin American Women Project
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    UKKI GCRF
  • 2016
    The Billiken Centenary Project: Childhood and Children's Culture in Argentina, 1919-2019
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    AHRC

Professional Memberships

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Contact Lauren for

  • General
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  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision