Dr Azariah Alfante

  • Lecturer (Hispanic) (Hispanic Studies)

email: Azariah.Alfante@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building, Room 220A, University of Glasgow, Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS

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Biography

Azariah Elikah Quintana Alfante obtained her doctorate in Spanish at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2021. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2023.

Research interests

  • 19th-century Spanish cultural studies
  • 19th and 20th-century Hispano-Philippine cultural studies
  • memory
  • ecclesiastical history and patrimony
  • secularisation
  • anticlericalism
  • education and the religious orders in colonial Philippines (Spanish and American)

Publications

Selected publications

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Grants

Dame Joan Metge & Emeritus Professor Dame Charmian J O'Connor Post-Doctoral Research Award (Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust), 2023.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise postgraduate research projects in the following areas:

  • Hispanic Studies (histories, literature, art)
  • Postcolonial studies (Southeast Asia and the Pacific)
  • Nineteenth-century literature
  • Cultural studies
  • Religious and ecclesiastical studies
  • Cultural memory and heritage

Teaching

Spanish Language 1 (Non-Beginners) HISP009 (Course Convenor, 2024)

Spanish Culture 1 (Non-Beginners) HISP1007

Spanish Culture 2 HISP2010

Spanish Honours Written Language (Junior) HISP4089

Honours Option: Thinking Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Spain HISP4131

Senior Honours Dissertations

Translation Studies: An Introduction to Key Topics in Theory and Practice MODLANG4012 (Spanish to English Translation)

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Academia

Profile

Scholarly Associations/Research Groups

  • Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea (AEHRC)
  • Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG)
  • The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)
  • International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association (ISHWRA)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Rethinking the Secular

Administrative Role

SMLC Exams and Assessment Officer