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You are here: Home > IUEU Student Profile Jane Hanley
IUEU Centre 2007 Scholarship Holder & PHD candidate in European Languages, Macquarie University
Citizenship Australian
PhD Thesis Going Places: Transformations in Spanish Travel Narratives
This thesis is an investigation of representations of place in Spanish travel narrative from the colonial era to today. It examines narratives of encounter as artifacts of changing European thought, and in terms of transformed experiences of distance, mediation of technology, and renegotiations of the meaning of Europe in the representation of home cultures.
Research Interest
Travel narratives, Latin American historiography, gender and representation in literature, and sexuality and popular culture.
2008 progress update:
In my first year of candidacy, I completed Macquarie's Central and Divisional Commencement Programs, including presenting my project to peers from the Division of Humanities. I completed a full research proposal with extended literature review and methodology, a draft introduction and thematic chapter. During this time, I also participated in scholarly activities, including teaching and course development, professional development activities and training, submission of articles for publication, and attendance and presentation at conferences and seminars. Most events which I had the pleasure of attending were IUEU supported events, including: Moving Cultures,
Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory, 3-5 December 2007; A Universal Argentine Writer - Jorge Luis Borges: English Literature and Other Inquisitions, 23-24th September, 2007; Global Convergences: European Encounters and Cultural Interactions, 14 February 2007. I also assisted in the organisation of the Symposium A Universal Argentine Writer. My article'The Walls Fall Down: Fantasy and Power in El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth' is accepted for publication in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas.
Education
2007 (ongoing), PhD candidate in European Languages, Macquarie University.
2004, BA Spanish & Latin American Studies (1st Hons), University of New South Wales. Honours thesis: A Camellia in the Garden of Words: María Mercedes Carranza, Poetry and Femininity.
1999-2003, BA Communications (Writing & Contemporary Cultures)/BA International Studies (Spain), University of Technology, Sydney.
Publications
'The Walls Fall Down: Fantasy and Power in El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth', Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 4:1, 2008. (Forthcoming)
Conference and Seminar Papers
'Stories of Encounter as Sites of Struggle: Moctezuma, Cortés, and Bernal Díaz' Conquest of New Spain', Conference: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities, 3-5 December 2007, Flinders University, Adelaide.
'Transformations in Spanish Travel Narratives', 16 May 2007, Department of European Languages Research Seminar Series, Macquarie University.
Teaching and Course Development Experience
2006 (ongoing), Tutor/Online Course Developer, Introductory, Intermediate & Advanced Spanish Language & Culture Units, Department of European Languages, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University.
2006, Teacher, Spanish 1 & 2, Macquarie Community College.
2006, Teacher, Intermediate General English & Business English, GEOS St Mark's International English College.
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