Meet the Faculty: Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is a Hispanist with particular interests in literature and film, and in the relationship between history, memory, and culture in various regions of the Hispanic world. She read Spanish and French at St Anne’s College, Oxford, completing a DPhil in Spanish in 1997. From 1995 to 2012 she lectured in the Department of Spanish at University College Dublin. She moved to Warwick in 2012 to lead the establishment of the new Hispanic Studies department, of which she was Head until 2015. In 2014-15 she was Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Arts and in 2016-19, and she was Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. She has also served on Senate and has sat on several university-level committees, including ARC and Research Committee. She has returned to the role of Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Arts, with responsibility for Research.

Alison specializes in modern Hispanic literatures and cultures, but also has interests in Portuguese narrative and film, and her early research focused on the contemporary reception of Golden-Age works. She has held visiting positions at the Centre for Comparative Study, University of Lisbon; the School of Advanced Study, University of London; Brown University, Rhode Island; and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research has attracted awards from the Irish Research Council, the European Union, the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.