Mariana Casale O'Ryan
Address:
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Univesrity of Manchester
Samuel Alexander Building
Oxford Road
M13 9PL
Manchester
UK
email: Mariana.Casale-o'ryan@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: "The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as a Transnational Cultural Icon"
Supervisors: Professor Chris Perriam and Dr Fernanda Peñaloza
Main Discipline area: Latin American Cultural Studies
Research specialism:
Twentieth-century Argentine Literature -Jorge Luis Borges In particular; Comparative Literature; the blurring of boundaries between Argentine popular/mass culture and "high" culture; the crossing of genre and media boundaries;
My doctoral thesis explores the mechanisms involved in the appropriation of the figure of Jorge Luis Borges and the construction of the author as a cultural product. It Is an Interdisciplinary project which explores a variety of media (literary texts, biography, photography, comic strips, film) primarily, although not exclusively- In the context of twentieth-century Argentina.
Publications:
Academic Journal Articles:
"Perpetrating a Story: Musings over Authorship and Reading in a comparative analysis of J.L. Borges's There Are More Things and H.P.Lovecraft's The Shuttered Room (forthcoming)
"Foreign Literatures In English and the Serach for Cultural Identity", ELT News and Views, 6 (1), March 1999, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Conference Presentations:
"Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: The Role of Portrait Photography in the Making of J.L.Borges as a cultural Icon", Postgraduate Symposium: Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 23-24 November 2007
"Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: A Phenomenological approach to cultural analysis", "The Artefact and our Text" Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, 30 October 2007
"Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: The Role of Portrait Photography in the Making of J.L.Borges as a cultural Icon", SPLAS departmental research seminar, University of Manchester, 10 October 2007
"The case of two Biographies in the Making of Jorge Luis Borges as a Cultural Icon", PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Cultural Studies) Conference, Liverpool University, January 31-February 2, 2007
"On Jorge Luis Borges's There Are More Things", Postgraduate and Staff Seminar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Trinity College, Dublin, 11 April 2001
Conference Organisation:
Assisted In the organisation of and during the "Patagonia: Myths and Realities" Conference, University of Manchester, September 2 - 4, 2005
Affiliation to Research Centres
Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies (CLACS)
Membership of Professional Organisations
Society for Latin American Studies
Teaching Areas:
As Graduate Teaching Fellow, I teach Spanish In the LEAP programme of the University Language Centre.
I have also lectured to undergraduates on Borges.
I have taught Spanish (ELE) and Spaish Grammar and Translation at Instituto Cervantes and In the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester and also at Trinity College, Dublin.
I have taught English language (Including EFL and ESOL) at various levels In Argentina and In England; as well English Literature at IGCSE and teacher training levels In Argentina.
Professional biography:
2000-2002: Postgraduate Research work on notions of Periphery and fragmentation In the fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, under the supervision of Dr Ciaran Cosgrove, funded by Trnity College, at Trinity College, Dublin.
1997-1998: MA Literature, Culture and Modernity, Department of English, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
1994-1996: Postgraduate Research work on Tradition and Modernity In English Drama, under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Ferradas-Moi, at the Instituto Superior de Enseñanza en Lenguas Vivas, Buenos Aires.
1994-1996: Degree courses In Media Studies, Universidad de Buenos Aires
1988-1992: Degree: Profesora de Inglés (BA in English equivalent), first class, Instituto Superior de Enseñanza en Lenguas Vivas, Buenos Aires.