Ms María Liñeira
María García Liñeira, Licenciatura and Diploma de Estudos Avanzados (Compostela), MSt (Oxon)
Address: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TF
Email: maria.linheira@queens.ox.ac.uk
Research
María Liñeira's research focuses on emergent literatures, literary nationalism and the relationship between language and national literature. She is currently working on her D.Phil. thesis, "Literary Citizenship and the Politics of Language: The Galician Literary Field between 1939 and 1965". Her interests also include women’s writing in the postwar period, contemporary Galician literature, the study of masculinities and the writers Álvaro Cunqueiro and Manuel Rivas.
Teaching
Spanish Writing Skills and Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature.
Selected Publications
Books
Co-translator, From the Beginning of the Sea: Anthology of Contemporary Galician Short Stories, translated by the Obradoiro de Tradución Galego Inglés at the Centre for Galician Studies of Oxford (Brighton: Foreign Demand, 2008).
Co-editor, John Rutherford: Mar por medio, ed. by María Liñeira and Dolores Vilavedra (Trasalba, Amoeiro: Fundación Otero Pedrayo, 2007).
Editor, El laberinto habitado: Los artículos de Álvaro Cunqueiro en “Destino” (1961–1976) by Álvaro Cunqueiro (Vigo: Nigra Trea, 2007).
Journal Articles
“Manual para saír da capoeira. Sobre o Don Hamlet de Álvaro Cunqueiro”, Grial: Revista Galega de Cultura 192 (2011): 26-31.
“Pigging in Germany: Emigration and Gendered Subalternity in Roberto Vidal Bolaño’s Cochos”, Galicia 21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies Issue C (2011): 19-39.
“A sección de Álvaro Cunqueiro na revista catalá Destino: Os cans fieis das verbas: Laberinto y Cía.”, Anuario de Estudos Literarios Galegos (2006), 40–51.
Book Chapters
“Os nenos do arrabaldo: Masculinidades en construcción en la obra de Manuel Rivas”, Voces de Galicia: Manuel Rivas y Suso de Toro. Ed. Sadi Lakhadari. Paris: Indigo & Côté Femmes, 2012: pp.96-107.
Other publications
Co-author with Montse Pena Presas, “Galician Studies: Galician Literature”, Year’s Work in Modern Languages Studies, ed. by Stephen Parkinson, 71 (2010): 346–368.
“Galician Studies: Galician Literature”, Year’s Work in Modern Languages Studies, ed. by Stephen Parkinson, 67 (2005), 288–299.
Various entries, Diccionario de Literatura Galega: Vol. IV: Termos e institucións literarias, ed. by Dolores Vilavedra (Vigo: Editorial Galaxia, 2004)