About this Event
About this inaugural lecture
Women travellers in Latin America have long been regarded as ‘exceptions’ in a masculinist journey tradition in which imperialist explorers or heroic individuals have dominated the historiography and literally left their mark on the landscape. My research shows, however, that women travellers there have been prolific rather than extraordinary, collaborative rather than solitary, and political in compelling, if complex ways. This lecture will draw on more than two decades of research on women travellers from various countries, including Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. It will demonstrate the rich potential of their ‘errant feminisms’ as embodied practices of roaming and unruliness.
About the speaker
Claire is the author of Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico (2018), Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America (2010) and Locating Latin American Women Writers (2003), 4 co-edited volumes of essays and over 20 journal articles and book chapters in major reference works in Latin American literary and cultural studies. She studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde and held posts at the universities of Aberdeen, Stirling and Goldsmiths’, University of London.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
