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HOWES, Christina Angela
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Teacher profile
Professor Auxiliar
Education, Faculty of Education Sciences. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Academic curriculum
- Doctor en Filologia Anglesa Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Màster en Lingüistica Aplicada a l'ensenyament d'anglés com llengua estrangera Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
- Máster en estudios ingleses avanzados: literatura y cultura por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- B.A Honours Degree: Francès UNIVERSITY OF WALES CARDIFF
Publications
Articles
- Howes, C., (2023), "Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Shades of Albert Camus' Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas' Burma Boy", Atlantis: revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Americanos, vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 225-243, ISSN: 0210-6124.
- Howes, C., (2023), "“All Hell Let Loose” on the Post-war Homefront: Postmemorial Engagement of Returning Combatants of World War II", Books Now: Gdánsk Journal of Humanities, vol. 1 (2023), No. 16, pp. 59-71, ISSN: 2353-4699.
- Howes, C., (2023), "“The World is still Beautiful”: An Eco-philosophical Reading of Eugene McCabe’s Victims Trilogy", Estudios Irlandeses, No. 18, pp. 172-183, ISSN: 1699-311X.
- Howes, C., (2022), "Laughing and Crying at the Same Time: Reading Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy through a Bergsonian Theory of the Comic", University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series, vol. XII, No. 2, pp. 20-33, ISSN: 2069 – 8658.
- Howes, C., (2017), "Coming home from world war two, ‘in our time’: Post-memory, history and narrative in melvyn bragg’s the soldier’s return and son of war", Revista de filología románica, vol. 33, No. Special Issue 2, pp. 109-116, ISSN: 0212-999X.
Books
- Howes, C., (2019), "Third Generation Engagement with World War Two: Postmemory in Cole Moreton’s My Father was a Hero". STRINGER- VERLAG. Berlin, Alemanya. 9781527512283.
Book chapters
- Howes, C., (09/07/2024), "A Postmemorial Aesthetics of Contemporary Haunting: The Architectural uncanny in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room", (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory, pp. 227-238, Routledge. ISBN: 9781032663661.
- Howes, C., (22/02/2024), "Legacies of War: A Pedagogical Approach to Sustainable Peace Education Using Literature as a Tool of Enquiry", Ámbitos y perspectivas actuales en lingüística y literatura, pp. 107-124, Comares. ISBN: 978-84-1369-615-7.
- Howes, C., (01/03/2018), "NOT QUITE AT HOME: ARCHITECTURE, AUTHENTICITY AND TRANSMODERNITY IN RACHEL SEIFFERT’S “ARCHITECT”", Persistence and Resistance in English Studies: New Research, pp. 11-18, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0608-4.
Projects and research
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Más allá de la posmemoria: Perspectivas literarias en inglés sobre la guerra y la memoria en la era (pos)posmoderna (POSTLIT)01/09/2024 - 01/09/2027IP: Pividori, M.; Owen, D.; Howes, C.
Ministerio de ciencia e innovación
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Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English01/09/2020IP: Howes, C.
Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
Activities
- "POSTMEMORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD" International Interdisciplinary Conference Ponència "‘Into the Arms of Strangers’: Postmemorial Engagement with Jewish Child Refugees in Julien Borger’s I Seek A kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust.", 2024.
- 4th "POSTMEMORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD" International Interdisciplinary Conference Ponència "“All Hell Let Loose” on the Post-war Homefront: Postmemorial Engagement with Returning Combatants of World War II.", 2023.
- 6th International Conference on Linguistics and Literature Ponència "“We Have All Been Marked by War”: A Pedagogical Approach to War Induced Anxiety in Higher Education Students Using Literature as a Tool of Enquiry", 2022.
- III Congreso Internacional CreadorAS en la Educación Literaria e Intercultural Ponència "Teaching the Female War Experience in Higher Education through a Critical Analysis of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway", 2022.
- Third Postmemory and the Contemporary World: International Interdisciplinary Conference Ponència "Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Critiquing the Modern Condition through a Poetics of the Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas’ Burma Boy", 2022.
- XLIV Congreso Nacional del Asociación Española de Estudios Ingleses y Norte-Americanos Ponència "Cautionary Tales from the Irish Borderlands: An Eco-philosophical Reading of Eugene McCabe’s Heaven Lies About Us", 2021.
- Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature. International Conference Ponència "From Home to Hostile Space: The Aesthetics of the Spatial Uncanny in Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room", 2021.
- Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture Ponència "Facilitating Online Small Group Learning in Higher Education using Breakout Rooms", 2021.
- Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Athropocene: International Conference Ponència "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotton that we belong to each other": Connectedness, Humanism and 'Dwelling' in the Fiction of Rachel Seiffert", 2020.
- Border-Crossing Experiences in Contemporary War Literature Ponència "A Phenomenological Exploration of Borders in the Fiction of Rachel Seiffert", 2019.