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Please email me to directly arrange a meeting: l.osullivan@bham.ac.uk

• DPhil, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
• MA in Hispanic Studies, University College London
• BA in Spanish and Italian, Trinity College Dublin
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

I did my BA in Spanish and Italian at Trinity College Dublin, before going on to complete an MA in Hispanic Studies at University College London and a DPhil in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Oxford. Before taking up my post at Birmingham, I held teaching posts at the University of Warwick and the University of Oxford.

I teach optional modules on Spanish Caribbean and Latinx visual and literary culture and on Mexican and Chicanx art. I also supervise final year dissertations on a range of topics relating mostly to Spanish American, Spanish Caribbean and Latinx visual culture (including propaganda, muralism, street art).  

I would be happy to hear from potential postgraduate students interested in working on research relating to the following areas:

- The relationship between visual culture and violence
- Visual propaganda and the relationship between art and politics more broadly
- Mexican and Chicanx art and visual culture (including but not limited to muralism, photography, painting, printmaking), including visual and material cultures of Catholicism
- Spanish American and Latinx art
- The image-text relations

I particularly welcome comparative, interartistic and interdisciplinary topics and/or projects with a strong historical or archival dimension

Find out more - our PhD Hispanic Studies  page has information about doctoral research at the 黑料吃瓜网.

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My research interests lie primarily in Mexican visual culture.听My first book Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo: Post-revolutionary Body Politics (1922-1965) comparatively examined contrasting representations of the body in the visual and literary works of Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo to trace evolving intellectual and artistic interpretations of post-revolutionary nationhood in Mexico from the euphoria of the 1920s to the phase of intellectual disenchantment beginning at mid-century. It analyses canonical as well as previously overlooked essays, murals, illustrations, photographs, films and literary texts against a historical backdrop constructed from print media, correspondence and previously unexamined archival materials to provide a multimedia history of Mexico鈥檚 shifting post-revolutionary cultural, political and intellectual landscapes during these decades of societal transformation.

My current book project Intersecting Images: Cultural Revolution and Catholic Resistance (1926-1947) explores the role of images (including photographs, prayer cards, prints, murals and film footage) during a period of religious conflict in Mexico spanning from the Catholic-led Cristero War (1926-1929) and the so-called "segunda Cristiada" to the rise of the right-wing Catholic Sinarquista movement in the late 1930s. The project explores how images are used to narrativise violence and mobilise actors in conflict situations. I recently curated a commemorative digital exhibition on the photography of the Cristero War in collaboration with Mexico's Archivo General de la Naci贸n.听

Research networks and organisations: Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), UK Latin American Historians Network (UKLAH), Historians of Catholic Mexico (HISTCATMEX).听