Responsibilities

Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies

Student Life Officer

Erasmus Co-ordinator for Incoming Students (Spanish)

Erasmus Co-ordinator for Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

Dissertation Co-ordinator for Spanish

Employability Officer for Spanish

Background

Dr. Aishih Wehbe-Herrera gained an MA and a PhD from the University of La Laguna (Spain) (2005, 2009) while working at the University of Edinburgh for two years, in the Department of Hispanic Studies (2008-2010). Her doctoral thesis explored the construction of masculinity and gender relations in the work of Chicana writers Ana Castillo, Estela Portillo-Trambley, and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.

Research:

Gender Studies (Masculinity Studies, Feminist Theory), Latino/Chicano Studies and literature, Border Theory, Postmodern Critical Thinking, Hegemony and Power and (Women’s) Human Rights.

She has thoroughly researched the critical and creative production of Chicana writer Ana Castillo, whom she interviewed personally in March 2006 (published in Ventana Abierta: Revista Latina de Literatura, Arte y Cultura) and May 2008 (The Acentos Review). She has published her work in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Spain, and presented her work at international conferences worldwide.

External Funding:

2009 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), the University of Edinburgh.

2012 Full-time researcher in the interdisciplinary research project “Hombres de ficción: hacia una historia de la masculinidad a través de la literatura y el cine de los Estados Unidos/ Men of Fiction: Towards a History of Masculinity in USA Fiction and Film” awarded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España.

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

WEHBE-HERRERA, AISHIH.  "Politics of the Self and Masculinity in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless me, Última and Heart of Aztlan” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (ACCEPTED. Forthcoming April 2013- Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses).

---   “‘A history teacher [who] calls himself Chicano’: Negotiating Borders, Masculinity and Ethnicity in Ana Castillo’s The Guardians.” Ed. Joseph RAAB. Interculturalism in the Americas. Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier and Arizona: Bilingual Press. (ACCEPTED, forthcoming 2013)

---    “On Men and Machos: Analysing Chicano Masculinity in Denise Chávez’s Loving Pedro Infante and Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia” Ed. Josep Maria ARMENGOL. Men in Color: Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011: 9-32

---   “Masculinity, Femininity and Gender (Un)doings in Ana Castillo's Sapagonia” Ed. Julio Cañero Serrano. Nuevas reflexiones en torno a la literatura y cultura chicanas. Madrid : Instituto Franklin de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá, 2010. 57-66.

---   “Do Real Women Have Curves?: A Vindication of Chicana Women”. Ed. Juan José CRUZ-HERNÁNDEZ. Textual Identities of ‘Identity Politics’: Debates from Afar on Recent US Cultural Texts. La Laguna: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna, 2009. 141-151.

---   “The Power of a Query: An Interview with Ana Castillo.” The Acentos Review. September 2008.  http://www.theacentosreview.com/

---   “¿Y qué ha pasado con los hombres? Chicano Men and the Construction of Masculinity”. Interpreting the New Milenio. Ed. José Antonio GURPEGUI and M. Carmen GÓMEZ-GALISTEO. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 80-86. ISBN (10): 1-84718-411-1, ISBN (13): 9781847184115.

---   “Negociando espacios e identidades de género en el siglo XXI. Entrevista a Ana Castillo”. VENTANA ABIERTA: REVISTA LATINA DE LITERATURA, ARTE Y CULTURA. Santa Bárbara (CA): Centre for Chicana/o Studies UCSB. Vol. 23, 2007. 56-65.

---   “‘Poor and Native Californian!’: Negotiating Masculinity in María Amparo Ruíz de Burton The Squatter and the Don”. Ed. Francisco LOMELÍ, María HERRERA-SOBEK & Sarah POOT-HERRERA. l00 Años de Lealtad en Honor a Luis Leal/One Hundred Years of Loyalty in Honor of Luis Leal. México DF: University of California, (Santa Barbara) UC-Mexicanistas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. 2007. 1233-1248.

---   “Smashed to pieces: Portraits of the Self(ves) in The Mixquiahula Letters”. Ed. Nieves PASCUAL, Larua ALONSO-GALLO & Francisco COLLADO-RODRÍGUEZ. Masculinities, Femininities and the Power of the Hybrid in US Narratives: Essays on Gender Borders. Druck: (Germany): Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2007. 21-30. [This article has been favourably mentioned in a review, see Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 33: 155-159. ISSN: 0171- 5410.]

---   “Masculinity and Gender Relations in Estela Portillo-Trambley’s Trini”. Ed. Manuel BRITO, Matilde MARTÍN-GONZÁLEZ, Juan I. OLIVA, & Dulce RODRÍGUEZ-GONZÁLEZ. Insights and Bearings. La Laguna: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna, 2007. 133-146.

---   “‘Conscienticized Poetics’/ Poética de Conscientización: La propuesta de Ana Castillo para la literatura chicana”. On the Matter of Words: In Honor of Lourdes Divasson Cilveti. Ed. Manuel BRITO & Ignacio OLIVA. La Laguna: Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de La Laguna, 2006. 427-36.

---   “Xicanisma: raza, lenguaje y género en la propuesta feminista de Ana Castillo”. Revista Nerter, número 8, 2005. 49-53.