Dr Valentina Aparicio, BA (PUC-Chile), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Edinburgh), FHEA

Profile

Dr Valentina Aparicio is an Education and Recognition Adviser within the Queen Mary Academy. She provides support for the development and enhancement of teaching and learning across QMUL. Valentina teaches at QMA’s taught programmes (PGCAP and CILT), contributes to educational development workshops, mentors and assesses applications for Advance HE recognition programmes, and supports learner engagement programmes like the SEED award.

Valentina’s educational work is informed by her previous experience lecturing and tutoring in English and Scottish literature at QMUL and Edinburgh University. Previously, Valentina worked delivering staff and student training on academic literacy at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. At the latter institution, she designed and delivered an institution-wide Writing Across the Curriculum CPD programme. Valentina is also a certified CELTA teacher and has a diploma on Teaching Adults with Dyslexia.

Research

Research Interests:

Valentina holds a PhD in English Literature from Edinburgh University, and a BA in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research focuses on global Romanticism and the politics of race and nation, particularly in Latin America and Britain. She has written on Robert Southey’s works on Brazil, as well as on the traveller Maria Graham, and on the intellectual José María Blanco White. Valentina has published articles in European Romantic Review, Essays in Romanticism, and Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph titled Robert Southey’s Latin American and Caribbean Works: The Setting Sun of Empire, for Edinburgh University Press.

Publications

Publications

Books

• Robert Southey’s Latin American and Caribbean Works: The Setting Sun of Empire. Edinburgh University Press (Critical Studies in Romanticism Series). Forthcoming.

Journal articles

• ‘The “Domestic Mysteries” of the Cannibal: Indigenous Women’s Agency in Robert Southey’s History of Brazil.’ Essays in Romanticism1 (2022): 51-67.
• ‘Intermarriage in the Quilombo: Southey’s Republic of Runaway Slaves.’ European Romantic Review4 (2021).
• ‘Fervor de Buenos Aires y Trampantojos: puntos de encuentro entre Jorge Luis Borges y Ramón Gómez de la Serna’. Episteme: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas1 (2016).
• ‘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.

Book chapters

• ‘Historical (A)Synchronicity in British Romanticism: Indigenous Americans and the Celts.’ Romantic Synchronicity: Literary Coincidence and the Poetics of Simultaneity. Bucknell University Press (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850). Ed. Yimon Lo. (Forthcoming).
• ‘Romantic Poetry as Resistance: Black Enslaved Poets in Cuba.’ The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era. Arif Camoglu, Omar F. Miranda, Bakari Diaby, Kate Singer eds. Abingdon: Routledge. Under contract. (Forthcoming).
• ‘Illegitimacy and indigeneity in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in Chile in 1822.’ Global Exchanges. Bloomsbury Academic. Under contract. Ed. Louise Duckling and Brianna Robertson-Kirkland. (Forthcoming).
• ‘Maria Graham’s Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome (1820): Historicity and the labour of Italian peasant women.’ Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad. Ed. Julie Peakman. Pen & Sword: 2024.
• ‘“Anglo-Saxons on Horseback” or “Mail-Shirted Sioux”?: Romantic Native Americans and Tolkien’s Rohirrim.’ In: The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Zollikofen: Walking Tree Publishers: 2024. (Co-author: Elliott Greene).