Dr. I. (Irene) Villaescusa Illán
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Profile
Irene Villaescusa Illán is Assistant Professor in the Literary and Cultural Analysis Program (LCA). She also teaches in the Spanish Program and the AUC. She has been working at the UvA since 2015. Prior to the Netherlans she was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and at the University of Utrecht.
She obtained her PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) in 2017 with a project on Hispano-Filipino literature. Her research interests include peripheral or border Hispanic literatures with an emphasis on gender, ecofeminism and translation.
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Education and Work
2017 PhD Cultural Analysis – ASCA, University of Amsterdam
2012 MA Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies – University of Hong Kong
2010 MA Applied Linguistics to Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language – Universidad Antonio de Nebrija
2002 Postgraduate Certificate of Education (CAP) – Universidad de Granada
2001 BA English Philology – Universidad de Murcia and University of Leeds
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Publications
Monograph
2020
Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Book Chapters
2022
“Mujeres modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino en la modernidad hispanofilipina” en Axel Gasquet & Rocío Ortuño Casanova (eds.), Literatura filipina en español, el impulso hacia la modernidad, Amsterdam: Brill, Foro Hispánico series, 2021, chp 12, 210-228 (in print).
2021
“Resistencia, globalización y nostalgia: usos del español, el inglés y el tagalo en la liteteratura filipina en español” in Aracne, Eds. Renata Enghels & Diana Castilleja, Special issue: "Cruces y bordes: La voz de la otredad. El inglés y el español en contacto En los Estados Unidos". pp.301-329. DOI 10.53136/97912599420126
2019
“Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature” in Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalisation. Eds. Ferdinand, Simon, Villaescusa-Illán, Irene & Peeren, Esther. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. pp.125-148.
2019
(with Simon Ferdinand and Esther Peeren) “Introduction. Other Globes :Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization” in Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalisation. Eds. Ferdinand, Simon, Villaescusa-Illán, Irene & Peeren, Esther. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. pp. 1-40.
Edited Volumes
2019
Ferdinand S., Villaescusa-Illán I., Peeren E. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalisation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal Articles
2020
(with Babs Boter) “Self-Fashioning and Othering: Modern Women’s Double Strategies of Travel Writing” with Boter, “Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility and Travel Writing” Feminismo/s, Issue 36, 2020, pp.70-102.
2019
“Transcultural Orientalism: Re-writing the Orient from the Philippines and Latin America” Transpacific Connections of Philippine Literature in Spanish, Unitas, Manila: University of Santo Tomas, 2019, pp. 288-317.
2018
"Un paseo por la modernidad: reflexiones de Paz Mendoza en Notas de Viaje (1929)". Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana. Año XLIV, No 88. Tufts University: Lima-Boston, 2018, pp. 267-290.
Focus Feature
2023
Guest Editor. “ Transcultural Objects from the Global Hispanophone” in IIAS (International Institute of Asian Studies) Newsletter Spring 2023.
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Publicaties
2022
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2022). Capítulo 12 Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina. In R. Ortuño Casanova, & A. Gasquet (Eds.), El desafío de la modernidad en la literatura hispanofilipina (1885–1935) (pp. 235-255). (Foro Hispánico; Vol. 67). Leiden: Brill. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514065_014 [details]
2021
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2021). Resistencia, globalización y nostalgia: usos del español, el inglés y el tagalo en la literatura filipina en español. In R. Enghels, D. Castilleja, & A. Vande Casteele (Eds.), Cruzando fronteras: español es inglés en contacto: Prácticas lingüísticas, ideologías e identidades (Vol. 4, pp. 301-329). (Cruzando fronteras: español e inglés en contacto : prácticas lingüísticas, ideologías e identidades). Aracne. https://doi.org/10.53136/979125994201213 [details]
2020
Boter, B., & Villaescusa Illán, I. (2020). Self-Fashioning and Othering: Modern Women’s Double Strategies of Travel Writing. Feminismo/s, 36, 77-102. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2020.36.04 [details]- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2020). Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature. (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51599-7 [details]
2019
- Ferdinand, S., Villaescusa-Illán, I., & Peeren, E. (2019). Introduction. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. In S. Ferdinand, I. Villaescusa-Illán, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (pp. 1-39). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_1 [details]
- Ferdinand, S., Villaescusa-Illán, I., & Peeren, E. (Eds.) (2019). Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2 [details]
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2019). Transcultural Orientalism: Re-writing the Orient from the Philippines and Latin America. UNITAS, 92(1), 288-317. http://unitasust.net/?filter_by=authors&search_from=archive_page&s=Irene+Villaescusa [details]
- Villaescusa Illán, I. (2019). Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature. In S. Ferdinand, I. Villaescusa-Illán, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (pp. 125-147). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_6 [details]
2018
- Villaescusa-Illán, I. (2018). Un paseo por la modernidad: Reflexiones de Paz Mendoza en Notas de Viaje (1929). Revista de crítica literaria lationamericana, 44(88), 267-290. https://www.academia.edu/38242525/Un_paseo_por_la_modernidad_reflexiones_de_Paz_Mendoza_en_sus_Notas_de_Viaje_1929_ [details]
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Boter, B., & Villaescusa Illán, I. (2020). Self-Fashioning and Othering: Modern Women’s Double Strategies of Travel Writing. Feminismo/s, 36, 77-102.