Dr Denisse Lazo-González

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+44 (0) 118 378 3197
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Lecturer
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Lecturer in Spanish Studies
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Module Convenor
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Spanish Year Abroad Coordinator
Office
Miller 101Building location
Miller buildingAreas of interest
- The politics of fiction
- Chilean literature
- Latin American film
- Narrative and film form
- Feminist political theory
- Latin American gender studies
My research focuses in the interdisciplinary study of the relationship between fiction and politics, with special focus on representations of women’s political status in the Latin American context. My approach acknowledges a dynamic dialogue between fiction, ideology and a certain social imaginary, and incorporates historical, political, and cultural perspectives. I am interested in an analysis of fiction that recognises its socio-historical connections but is also centred on a close reading of form (narrative and film).
Before moving to the academia, I worked for nearly 10 years at the Gender Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), collaborating on various research projects that exlopred the status of women in Latin American societies; hence my interest in interdisciplinary views and contributions from the humanities and social sciences to approach form and context. Currently, I am working on research that examines the relationship between narrative and film form, gender, race, and other social factors such as class and time use in the Latin American context.
Teaching
I co-teach the following language and content modules:
- SP2/3L4: ‘Advanced Spanish Language II’
- SP1I1: ‘Icons of Spain and Latin America’
- SP1SLAC: ‘Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture’
Also, I teach and convene:
- SP1L1: ‘Beginners Spanish Language’
- LA1PS3: ‘IWLP Spanish 3’.
Academic qualifications
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Doctor of Philosophy in Modern Languages (Latin American literary and cultural studies), University of Oxford.
- Master of Studies in Women’s Studies, University of Oxford.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Gender Studies and Public Policies, Universidad de Chile.
- Licenciatura en lengua y literatura inglesas, Universidad de Chile.
Selected publications
Publications
- Lazo-Gonzalez, D. (2021) Women’s political status: female difference and public involvement in Diamela Eltit's Fuerzas especiales. Taller de letras (69). pp. 91-110. ISSN: 2735-6825 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7764/tl6991-110
- Lazo-Gonzalez, D. (2021) A failed link between Chilean workers’ subversive past and submissive present in Diamela Eltit’s mano de obra. Latin American Research Review , 56 (3). pp. 655-667. ISSN: 1542-4278 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.25222/larr.1090
- Lazo-Gonzalez, D. (2021) A play between fiction and non-fiction: retelling a story of exile and disappearance in missing (una investigación) (2009) by Alberto Fuguet. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , 98 (2). pp. 195-212. ISSN: 1475-3839 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2021.12
- Lazo-Gonzalez, D. (2020) Literatura chilena de la postransición: una lectura a los determinantes sociopolíticos de la narrativa de Eltit y Fuguet. Literatura y linguistica (41). pp. 121-148. ISSN: 0716-5811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.29344/0717621X.41.2265
- Lazo-Gonzalez, D. (2019) Entre lo moderno y lo tradicional: roles de género y forma narrativa en Aeropuertos de Alberto Fuguet.. Les Ateliers du SAL (15). pp. 128-145. ISSN: 1954-3239
- Lazo-Gonzalez, D. (2015) Women’s political equality: theoretical approaches to affirmative action.. Revista temas sociologicos (15). pp. 73-100. ISSN: 0719-644X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07196458.15.272