Valentina P. Aparicio

Thesis title: The Empire on Which the Sun Sets: Europeans and non-Europeans in Robert Southey's Works on Latin America and the Caribbean

Qualifications

PhD English Literature, The University of Edinburgh

MSc Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian , The University of Edinburgh

B. A. (Hons) Hispanic Literature and Linguistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

CELTA, Cambridge English - CES Dublin

Introduction to Academic Practice, Advance HE

Responsibilities & affiliations

British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS)

The Friends of Coleridge

Modern Languages Association (MLA)

 

Undergraduate teaching

Tutor - Scottish Literature 1

Tutor - Scottish Literature 2

Tutor - English Literature 1

Current research interests

Romanticism and imperialism, colonial/postcolonial studies, transatlantic Latin American studies, Caribbean studies, women's studies, travel writing, 19th century race studies

Past research interests

The Gothic, Romanticism and science

Current project grants

Becas Chile Doctorado en el Extrnajero - Conicyt, Chilean Government

Past project grants

Becas Chile Magister en el Extranjero - Conicyt, Chilean Government
Ena Wordsworth Bursary - Wordsworth Summer Conference
Stephen Copley Research Award – British Association of Romantic Studies
Funding for Research Expenses Outside the UK - Royal Historical Society

Organiser

Co-Convener Edinburgh Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars (NCRS) (2018-present)

Transgender Intersectional/International 2019. Logistics and catering.

Interdisciplinary Congress in Honour of Alexander von Humboldt, Claudio Gay, and Ignacio Domeyko, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile & Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Santiago, Chile 2014. Support team.

IV Coloquio Ensayo y Error, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Santiago, Chile 2013. Head of committee.

Papers delivered

Feb 2021 - Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 Speaker Sessions, Foundling Museum, Paper: "Maria Graham’s Journal of a residence in Chile (1824): Transnational Female Sympathies"

Jan 2021 - MLA 2021, Modern Languages Association (Online), Paper: "Cannibalism and the (In)Visibility of Intermarriage in Southey’s History of Brazil"

Jun 2020 - British Association for Romantic Studies Early Career and Postgraduate Conference, Romantic Futurities (Online), Paper: “Intermarriage in the Quilombo: Southey’s Fear of a Mixed-Race Future”

Oct 2018 - Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century Autumn Workshop; Edinburgh UK, Paper: “‘“Not with the burial of the sword this strife / Must end, but of the warrior”: historicity and the nation in Southey's Madoc”. 

Aug 2018 - Biennial Coleridge Conference (The Friends of Coleridge); Cambridge UK, Paper: “‘Either find repose in an Indian wig-wam or from an Indian tomahawk’: Memory in Southey’s Songs of the American Indians’”.

Aug 2018 - Wordsworth Summer Conference (Wordsworth Cirlce); Rydall UK, Paper: “‘thou shalt not shed the life of man in bloody sacrifice, it is his holy bidding which I speak’: Religious violence as a civilisational impulse in Madoc”. 

Aug 2017 - Wordsworth Summer Conference (Wordsworth Circle); Rydall UK, Paper: “Robert Southey’s ‘Songs of the American Indians’ and native-led rebellions in the Americas”

Aug 2016 - Conferencia Chile Transatlántico (PUC CHILE & Brown); Santiago, Chile, Paper: “Disidencia, resistencia y asimilación: mapuche y escoceses en la literatura romántica británica”. 

Aug 2013 - Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana para estudiantes (Universidad de San Agustín) Arequipa, Peru,  Paper: ‘‘Tres poemas’, ‘Soledad’ y ‘Un Tren Sonámbulo’: una poética de la impermanencia en La calle de la tarde de Norah Lange’. 

Aug 2012 - 3er Coloquio Ensayo y Error (PUC) Santiago, Chile, Paper: ‘Doña Francisca como figura fundamental en el proyecto ilustrado de Blest Gana para un nuevo público lector en el siglo XIX’

Jul 2012 - Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (UniValle) Cali Colombia, Paper: ‘Cosmopolitismo y periferia en el Buenos Aires de los Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía’ 

Aparicio, Valentina and Greene, Elliott. ‘Tolkien’s Transatlantic Romanticism: Native Americans and the Rohirrim’. The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Zollikofen: Walking Tree Publishers. (Forthcoming 2021).

Aparicio, Valentina. ‘Intermarriage in the Quilombo: Southey’s Republic of Runaway Slaves’. European Romantic Review. (Forthcoming 2021).

Aparicio, Valentina. ‘Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 268 pp. ISBN: 9781107110328, £64.99’. FORUM 22 (2016): 1-4.

Aparicio, Valentina. ‘El Español (Abril 1810 – Marzo 1811) Negociaciones del Meridiano Cultural entre América y España en un Espacio de Comunicación Transatlántica.’ Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo 21 (2015): 281-304.