Dr Inma Sánchez García
Teaching Fellow in Intermediality Studies
- Department of European Languages and Culture
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: inma.sanchez-garcia@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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50 George Square, 2.32
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour (Weeks 1-5; 7-11):
Wednesday, 1.10-2.00 pm
Please email me in advance.
Background
In 2019, I was awarded a PhD in Shakespeare studies at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. I also hold an MA in Comparative Literature; a BA in English Studies, both from the University of Murcia, Spain; and a BEd in Education from the University of Castilla La Mancha, Campus de Albacete, Spain.
I am Teaching Fellow in Intermediality Studies, and as part of this role I teach the core courses Theories of Intermediality, and Research Methods in Intermediality, as well as my research-led option courses Filming the Canon and Global Shakespeare, all part of the MSc in Intermediality. Prior to this, I taught at Newcastle University (Pathway Programme) and Northumbria University (English Department).
My research sits at the intersection between literature, theatre and film, as I am specialised in Shakespeare on screen. My book, Shakespeare in European Cinema: Borders, Thresholds, Connections, is the first academic monograph to study how Shakespeare and his works function transnationally across European filmic cultures with particular attention to questions of migration, dis/location and alterity. This book is contracted and forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan's Reproducing Shakespeare series. I am currently working on two parallel projects, one focused on queer adaptations of Shakespeare, with a particular focus on Romeo and Juliet in contemporary media, and another on Ingmar Bergman's intermedial adaptations of Shakespeare's works, which will materialise as a second monograph.
From 2023-26, I am part of an international collaborative project with colleagues from the United States, Nigeria, Portugal and Spain funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science on political uses of Shakespeare in a contemporary and interartistic context: "Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century" (PID2022-137873NA-I00), with Dr Reme Perni (University of Alicante, Spain) and Dr Juan José Bermudez(University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) as PI.
I have co-organised three international conferences and an AHRC-funded symposium. I have delivered a number of papers across international conferences, have convened series of films at local cultural venues and I have been a co-founder and co-chair of the Feminist and Queer Workgroup within NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). I am keen to hear from creative practitioners who would like to collaborate with us by doing workshops with our students or public events. I am also a member of the DELC Research Seminar Series organising committee.
My research interest include: intermediality studies, adaptation studies, comparative literature, Shakespearean adaptation, queer Shakespeare, transnational cinema, European cinema, intermedial theatre, and queer approaches to film, literature and the arts.
Qualifications
2019 PhD in Shakespeare studies, Northumbria University, UK.
2014 MA in Comparative Literature, University of Murcia, Spain.
2013 BA in English, University of Murcia, Spain.
2009 BEd in Education, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Project Member: SHAKE-ART21: Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century
Committee Member: Congreso Internacional IX CIJIET / II TEATRALES
Peer-reviewer: Alicante Journal of English Studies; SEDERI Yearbook; Open Screens.
Affiliations
European Shakespeare Research Association
International Society for Intermedial Studies
The Association of Adaptation Studies
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
Postgraduate teaching
Courses:
Theories of Intermediality 1 (CLLC11192)
Theories of Intermediality 2 (CLLC11193)
Research Methods in Intermediality 1 (ELCC11021, course organiser)
Research Methods in Intermediality 2 (ELCC11022)
Filming the Canon: Adaptation, Authorship, Alterity (CLLC11204, course organiser)
Global Shakespeare across Media: Performance, Cinema, Digital Cultures (ELCC11018, course organiser)
MSc Intermediality: Dissertation or Practice-Based Project with Reflective Essay (CLLC11191)
Current PhD students supervised
Julia Larsen, "The Monster, the Body, and the Medium: Reimagining the Monster for Post-Millennial America"
Lucy McMillan, "The Femme Fatale in Contemporary Literature and the Moving Image: Adaptation, Intersectionality and Intermediality"
Project activity
From 2023-26, I am part of an international collaborative project with colleagues from the United States, Nigeria, Portugal and Spain funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science on political uses of Shakespeare in a contemporary and interartistic context: "Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century" (PID2022-137873NA-I00), with Dr Reme Perni (University of Alicante, Spain) and Dr Juan José Bermudez(University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) as PI.
Invited speaker
September 2023: "Exit Romeo: Queer Temporalities and the Contemporary LGBTQ Romeo and Juliet Short Film", Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, Garrick's Temple, London.
May 2023: "Global Shakespeare Across Media: Scholarly Developments and Pedagogical Perspectives" at 26th FIID, Emerging Teaching Ecosystems, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
May 2023: "The Intermedial Turn: Intermediality as a Dynamic Learning Ecosystem" at 26th FIID, Emerging Teaching Ecosystems, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
April 2023: "Crossing Borders, Crossing Media: European Filmic Shakespeare", UNED University, Spain.
April 2023: "Shakespeare in 1960s European Cinema: A Transnational Perspective", Early Modern Network, University of Edinburgh.
June 2022: "Shakespeare and Pasolini", 100 Years of Pasolini Lecture Series, Italian Studies, DELC; The Italian Institute of Culture in Scotland.
March 2022: "Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Othello in European Cinema" Keynote Speaker at the Annual Conference of Mahatma Gandhi College, Kerala, India.
Organiser
Primary Organiser
May 2019 AHRC-funded symposium to launch the Queer Screens Research Network | University of Edinburgh | Keynote: Campbell X.
Sept 2017 ‘Queer Screens Conference’ | Northumbria University | Keynote: Professor Jack Halberstam.
Committee Member
October 2019 Inaugural SEDERI Junior Researchers Conference, at Murcia University (Spain), 9 - 11 October 2019. Keynotes: Prof Sonia Massai, Dr Paul Prescott, Dr Zenón Luis-Martínez.
April 2016 Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland 2016 Conference, Northumbria University. Keynotes: Professor Connie Scarborough, Professor María Cristina Quintero.
Panel Organiser
September 2022 'Queer Intermediality', 6th International Conference for Intermedial Studies at Trinity College, Dublin | International Society for Intermedial Studies
Papers delivered
December 2023 "'If music be the food of love, play on!’: Shakespeare, Music and the Arts in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982)", Intermediality Workshop, Meiji University, Tokyo. Japan.
September 2022 '“With a kiss, I die”? Romeo and Juliet, (Un)timeliness, and the Short Film" (Queer Intermediality panel), at the International Society for Intermedial Studies, Trinity College, Dublin , Ireland.
June 2022 ‘Shakespeare and Pasolini’, 100 Years of Pasolini Lecture Series, Italian Studies, DELC; The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh.
March 2022 ‘Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Othello in European Cinema’ at Mahatma Gandhi College (Kerala, India). Keynote.
June 2021 ‘Hey, ho, the wind and the rain’: Feste’s epilogue song in Fanny and Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1982)’, ESRA 2021, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
May 2021 ‘Sapphic Juliets: Queering Romeo and Juliet in Contemporary European Cinema’, Queer Representation Conference, University of Edinburgh.
October 2019 ‘Mirroring Inequalities: Nature as an Extension of the City in Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)’ at SEDERI Junior, Murcia University (Spain).
July 2019 ‘Heterotopic Lovers: Occupation, Displacement, and Counter-spaces in Romeo, Juliet, and Darkness (dir. Jiri Weiss, 1960)’, as part of the Shakespeare, Europe and Geopolitical Displacement (Past and Present) panel, co-convened at ESRA 2019, Roma Tre University (Italy).
July 2019 ‘In the Trenches of Love: Gendered Territories in Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)’, Shakespearean Geographies on Screen Seminar, at ESRA 2019, Roma Tre University (Italy).
June 2018 ‘“A plague on both your houses!”: Domestic Borders in The High Sun’, British Shakespeare Association Conference, Queen’s University Belfast (UK).
July 2017 ‘War-Crossed Lovers: Strangers across Borders in The High Sun’, Scenography of Mobility Seminar, European Shakespeare Research Association Conference at Uniwersytet Gdański, Gdansk (Poland).
May 2017 ‘In/visible Beds: Miscegenation and the Monstrous in Otel.lo (2012), Offensive Shakespeare Conference, Northumbria University (UK).
Jan 2017 ‘Shakespeare and European Cinema’, The International Association for Media and History Masterclass and Symposium, Northumbria University (UK).
Dec 2016 ‘“It is not words that shakes me thus”: Docufiction, Storytelling and Subjectivity in Otel·lo’, Romancing Shakespeare: The Bard in the Imagination of the Romance Cultures, at Universidade do Porto, Porto (Portugal).
June 2016 ‘Echoes of Henry IV in Otar Iosseliani’s Favourites of the Moon’, Shakespeare in Modern Popular Culture, at Université d’Artois, Arras (France)
May 2016 ‘Signifying Nothing? Shakespearean Feminities and the Centrality of Margins in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona’, ‘Girls on Film’: Visualising Femininities in Contemporary Culture Conference, Northumbria University (UK)
April 2016 ‘Yearning for Democracy: Collective Memory and National Identity in David Trueba’s Madrid, 1987’, Spanish Film Studies Panel, LXI Annual Conference for the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Northumbria University, (UK).
Nov 2015 ‘Back to the Future: Shakespeare and National Remembrance in Madrid, 1987’, Celebrating Shakespeare: Memory and the Cultures of Commemoration, at Universidad de Murcia (Spain).
Sept 2015 ‘Nothing and Be Silent: Reading Shakespeare in Persona’, Shakespeare and Scandinavia Conference, at Kingston University, London (UK).
Aug 2015 ‘Yearning for Change: Julius Caesar, Spanish Transition and the Urge for Democracy in Madrid, 1987’, Shakespeare’s Europe/Europe’s Shakespeare Conference (ESRA) at the University of Worcester (UK).
April 2015 ‘Shakespearean Echoes in Bergman’s Persona’, Research Seminar Series, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University (UK).
Monograph (forthcoming)
- Shakespeare in European Cinema: Borders, Thresholds, Connections. Reproducing Shakespeare Series. Palgrave Macmillan. Contracted & forthcoming.
Articles
- “‘Uneasy Lies the Heart that Wears a Badge' or We Own the Night as a Gen-X Henriad’”. SEDERI Vol. 29 (2019): 135-60. https://doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2019.6
- ‘War-Crossed Lovers: Strangers across Borders in The High Sun’, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Vol. 155, special issue: Exile & Migration. (April 2019): 99-115. https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/shakespeare-jahrbuch/volume-155-2019/?lang=en
- ‘Sex, Lies, and the Handkerchief: Immigration and Sexploitation in Catalan Otel·lo’, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Vol. 98 (April 2019): 22-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767818821690.
Encyclopaedia entries
- ‘Women in the Films of Ingmar Bergman’ in The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication, Karen Ross (ed.), Wiley Blackwell, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc195
- ‘Otel·lo (dir. Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font, Spain/Catalonia, 2012). In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, Alexa Joubin (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99378-2_212-1
Book reviews
- ‘Review of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies: Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture. By Yvonne Griggs’, English: Journal of the English Association, Vol. 66 (2017), 193-95. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efx003
- ‘Review of Fiona Noble’s Subversive Spanish Cinema: The Politics of Performance, London: Bloomsbury, 2020.’, Studies in European Cinema: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2022.2076513
May 2019 Introduction and Discussion of ‘These Are My Hands’ (Evi Tsiligaridou, 2018) and ‘A Familiar Face’ (Rhona Shennan, 2018), with creative practitioners at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
April 2018 Introduction and Discussion of The Watermelon Woman (dir. Cheryl Dunye, 1996), at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle.
Sept 2017 Introduction and Discussion of ‘Unhung Heroes’ (dir. Lazlo Pearlman, 2002), Closer (dir. Tina Gharavi, 2001), ‘Trans’ (dir. Mark Chapman, 2013), including Q&A with the practitioners at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
April 2016 Introduction and Discussion of Otel·lo (dir. Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font, 2012) at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle.
April 2016 Introduction and Discussion of Paris nous appartient (dir. Jacques Rivette, 1960) at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle.
April 2016 Introduction and Discussion of Iconostasis (dir. Joaquin Regadera, 2016), including Q&A with the director, at Abject Gallery, Breeze Creatives, Newcastle.