Faculty Lecturer
alejandra.barrialesbouche [at] mcgill.ca (email)
Alejandra Barriales-Bouche holds a Licenciatura in Filología Española from the Universidad de Oviedo (1997). She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2003). She worked as Assistant Professor of Spanish (2003-2009) and Associate Professor of Spanish (2010-2012) at Suffolk University before joining the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill in 2012. She also taught at Mount Holyoke College and Concordia University.
Her main research interests are the literature of the exiles of the Spanish Civil War and Spanish Cinema. She has published articles on the poetry of Luis Cernuda, Pedro Garfias, Rafael Alberti and the autobiographical texts of Federica Montseny. She is the editor of España: ¿laberinto de exilios? (2005) and the co-editor of Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema (2007).
Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Jorge Guillén in Post-Exile: Reaffirming the Ethical Dimension of Poetry” Hispanic Review 85.4 (Autumn 2017): 393-417.
“Rafael Alberti in Post-Exile” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 89 (2012): 55-74.
“La dimension ética de la poesía en el exilio: Primavera en Eaton Hastings de Pedro Garfias.” Hispanic Review (Spring 2008): 179-196.
“Filming Ghosts: Entre el dictador y yo (2005), an Awakening to a Silenced Past.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 4.3 (December 2007): 139-150.
“Exilio y post-exilio en Luis Cernuda” Revista Hispánica Moderna LIX (2006): 27-43.
“The Ethical Challenge of Autobiography in Exile: The Case of Federica Montseny” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38 (2004): 449-468.
“Patria de destino versus patria de origen: la visión de los exiliados españoles en Cuadernos Americanos.” Historias (Journal of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, México) 48 (2001): 55-65.
Articles in Books
“Introduction” (with Marjorie Attignol Salvodon). Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema. Eds. Sandra Barriales-Bouche and Marjorie Attignol Salvodon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 1-14.
“La voz autobiográfica de Federica Montseny en el exilio y en el post-exilio.” Ernestina de Champourcin. Mujer y exilio en el siglo XX. Eds. Rosa Fernández Urtasun and José Ángel Ascunce. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2006. 397-409.
“Los límites de la representación del yo: el Diario de Frida Kahlo.” La ansiedad autorial. Formación de la autoría femenina en América Latina: los textos autobiográficos. Ed. Margara Russotto. Caracas, Venezuela: Equinoccio, 2006. 275-289.
“El laberinto del exilio.” España: ¿laberinto de exilios? Ed. Sandra Barriales-Bouche. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2005. 9-27.
“América desde el supra-exilio.” Selected Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium “The 1939 Spanish Exile: Literature and Culture.” Havana: Casa del Escritor Habanero, HabanaGraf, 2002. 122-133.
Edited Volumes
Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema. Eds. Sandra Barriales-Bouche and Marjorie Attignol Salvodon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
España: ¿laberinto de exilios? Ed. Sandra Barriales-Bouche. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2005.