Dr Victoria Carpenter
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Job title: Faculty Research Manager / Reader in Latin American Studies
Email: v.carpenter@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591808
Room: N510a
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Recent publications
Books:
- Carpenter, V. (ed.), A World in Words, A Life in Texts: Revisiting Latin American Cultural Heritage, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.
- Carpenter, V. (ed.), (Re)Collecting the Past: History and Collective Memory in Latin American Literature, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
- Carpenter, V. (ed.), A World Torn Apart: Representations of Violence in Latin American Narrative, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.
Book chapters:
- Carpenter, V. (2011), Temporal Permutations in Octavio Paz's 'Piedra de sol' (1957), in A World in Words, A Life in Texts, 137-60.
- Carpenter, V. (2010), 'When Was Tomorrow? Manipulation of Time and Memory in the Works of Mexican Onda' in (Re)Collecting the Past, 37-57.
- Carpenter, V. (2007), 'La sangre en el cemento: Violence, Fantasy and Myth in Poetic Accounts of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre' in A World Torn Apart, 201-29.
Journal articles:
- Carpenter, V. and Halpern, P. (2012), 'Quantum Mechanics and Literature: An Analysis of El túnel by Ernesto Sábato', The Ometeca Journal 16 (in print).
- Carpenter, V. (2012), 'Power Tug of War: Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Text Control in Gustavo Sainz's Obsesivos días circulares (1969)', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (under review).
- Carpenter, V. (2012), 'Realidades en lucha abierta: el conflicto entre la realidad objetiva y el descubrimiento científico en la ciencia-ficción mexicana', Revista Iberoamericana 78:238-239, 165-179.
- Carpenter, V. (2010), Erasing Men from Album de familia by Rosario Castellanos, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe 21:2, 61-76.
- Carpenter, V. (2010), Under My (Editorial) Thumb: Hegemonic Masculinity and Text Ownership in the Works of the Mexican Onda, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 87:6, 667-84.
- Carpenter, V. (2009), "Me cae que no me entiendes": Multi-Language Text in the Mexican Onda, Romance Studies 27:3, 199-210.
- Carpenter, V. (2007), 'Transitory Literature or a Brave New Text? A Comparative Analysis of "La Tumba" and "¿Cuál es la onda?" by José Agustín', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 84:2, 213-26.
- Carpenter, V. (2005), 'Tlatelolco 1968 in Contemporary Mexican Literature', Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24:4 (special section - editor).
- Carpenter, V. (2005), 'The Echo of Tlatelolco in Contemporary Mexican Poetry', Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24:4, 496-512.
- Carpenter, V. (2002), From Yellow to Red to Black: Tantric Reading of "Blanco" by Octavio Paz', Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21:4, 527-44.
- Carpenter, V. (2001), 'Dream-sex and Time Travel: The Subject of "Piedra de sol" by Octavio Paz', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow), LXXVIII, 493-513.
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: Derby Business School
Subject Area: Languages
I oversee research activity in the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law. This includes staff research activity, postgraduate research students, external research funding and other research-related matters.
Teaching responsibilities
- Spanish language modules
- New Route PhD 'Planning and Managing Research' module
Professional interests
- Latin American Studies
- Latin American Literary Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Postcolonial Cultural Studies
- Language Studies
Research interests
- XX-Century Latin American literature
- XX-Century Mexican literature
- Transculturation
- Subalternity
- Violence in Latin American literature
- Representation of time in Latin American literature
- Hegemony and posthegemony in Latin America
- Application of scientific theories to literary analysis
- Intertextual influences in Mexican literature
- Mexican 'Onda' literature and its relationship with mainstream literature
- Octavio Paz
- Ernesto Sábato
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- Society for Latin American Studies (ordinary committee member 2011-2013)
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy
- British Academy of Management
Recent Conferences
- Carpenter, V. (2012), Nothing but the Truth, Take Two: The Mechanisms of Creating a Collective Memory in the Tlatelolco 1968 Discourse', Society for Latin American Studies Conference, University of Sheffield.
- Carpenter, V. (2011), '"You Want the Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth": Poetic Representations of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre', Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference, University of Nottingham.
- Carpenter, V. (2010), 'Power Tug of War: Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Text Control in Gustavo Sainz's Obsesivos días circulares (1969)', JISLAC Seminar 'Masculinities and Violence in Latin American Cultures', University of Lancaster.
- Carpenter, V. (2010), '¿Dije ya?': Textual Fragments and Repetitions in Obsesivos días circulares (1969) by Gustavo Sainz, Spanish-American Literature and the Scientific conference, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.
- Carpenter, V. (2010), 'Strings, Branes and Hidden Texts in Obsesivos días circulares (1969) by Gustavo Sainz', Society for Latin American Studies Conference, University of Bristol.
- Carpenter, V. (2009), 'Literary Flux: Cross-disciplinary Mechanisms of Text Analysis', Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, University of Leeds.
- Carpenter, V. (2008), 'Writing (to) Myself: Identity Conflict and Letter-Writing in Gustavo Sainz's Obsesivos Días Circulares (1969)', Society for Latin American Studies 2008 Conference, University of Liverpool.
- Carpenter, V. (2007), 'A Flash le gusta bailar: La manipulación del arte popular contemporáneo en las obras de la Onda', IV Congreso Europeo de Latinoamericanistas (CEISAL), University of Brussels.
- Carpenter, V. (2007), 'Collective Memory of Nothingness: Tlatelolco Massacre Anniversaries in Contemporary Mexican Poetry', Society for Latin American Studies 2007 Conference, University of Newcastle.
- Carpenter, V. (2006), 'When Was Tomorrow? Distortions of a Linear Narrative in the Works of Mexican La Onda', Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference, University of Liverpool.
- Carpenter, V. (2006), ' "Whoopie! We're All Gonna Die": Representations of Death in Mexican and US Protest Poetry of the Late 1960s', Society for Latin American Studies 2006 Conference, University of Nottingham.
Additional Interests and Activities
I am editor of the section 'Spanish American Literature: 1900-present' in Year's Work in Modern Language Studies - a bibliographical journal published annually. I also serve as peer reviewer for the following journals: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Latin American Research and Scientific Journals International.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BSc Summa Cum Laude Spanish and Foreign Language Education, University of Central Florida
Research qualifications
- PhD on male heterosexual character portrayal in Mexican literature, University of Hull
