Dr Julia Biggane
Lecturer
BA, PhD (Exeter)
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272554 |
| E-mail: | j.a.biggane@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | Hispanic Studies School of Language & Literature Taylor Building A45 University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UB Office hours outside teaching weeks: by appointment. |
Research Interests
Julia Biggane works on modern Spanish culture, particularly literature of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. She is author of In a Liminal Space: the Novelas Breves of Emilia Pardo Bazán (2000). She has published on other aspects of Pardo Bazán's work, and on the fiction of Miguel de Unamuno.
Current Research
She is co-editing, with John Macklin, a collection of essays on Unamuno's work for the Boydell and Brewer Companion series (2012/3)
She is producing a translation, with critical introduction and notes, of Unamano's La Tia Tula, for Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics Series (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2012/3)
She is researching the early history of the Falange's Seccion's Femenina.
She is a partner in Leverhulme International Network award. Principal Investigator: Dr J A G Ardila, University of Edinburgh. Project Title: Literature and Politics in Pre-War Spain: Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). She has contributed a chapter, La agonia de Don Juan: leyendo exilio, politica y genero en El hermano Juan, o el mundo es teatro for a collection of essays on Unamuno's work arising from the award. (Madrid: Visor, 2012).
She is completing a study of the political dimensions of Miguel de Unamuno's fiction. The most recently completed chapter is 'Cómo se hace una novela: Confession, Abjection, Religious Economy', a version of which was published in Modern Language Review, 104 (4), 2009, 1018-1037.
Teaching Responsibilities
Her courses include 'The Spanish Civil War as Cultural Representation and Historical Memory', 'Spain: a Cultural History', 'Spain: Texts and Contexts' and 'Advanced Translation Skills'. She contributes to MA courses in English, and Literature in a World Context.
External Responsibilities
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
External Examiner, Spanish BA Programmes, University of York (2009-2012)
Translation
She has recently completed the translation of El mono del desencanto: una crítica cultural de la transición española (1973 - 1993) by Teresa Vilarós.
Other responsibilities
Departmental Examinations Officer
Adviser of Studies
Convenor, Departmental Student-Staff Liaison Committee Meeting
Departmental Library Representative
Publications
- Biggane, J. La agonia de Don Juan, Chapter, 2013, El Unamuno eterno
- Biggane, J. Miguel de Unamuno: La Tia Tula, Scholarly Edition, 2013
- Biggane, J. & Macklin, J. A Companion to the Work of Miguel de Unamuno, Book, 2012
- Biggane, J. La agonía de Unamuno? The State of Unamuno Studies, Chapter, 2012, A Companion to the Work of Miguel de Unamuno
- Biggane, J. Review of Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism: The Juventud de Acción Popular in Spain 1931-1939, Sid Lowe (2010), Book/Film/Article review, 2012, International Journal of Iberian Studies, ISSN/ISBN: 0955-4270
- Biggane, J. Review of The Truth about Spain! Mobilising British Public Opinion 1936-1939, Hugo García (2010), Book/Film/Article review, 2012, International Journal of Iberian Studies, ISSN/ISBN: 0955-4270
- Biggane, J. The Representation of Gender in Unamuno's work: from Hegelian Separate Spheres to Unilateral Androgyny, Chapter, 2012, A Companion to the Work of Miguel de Unamuno
- Biggane, J. & Whiston, J. Spanish Prose Fiction From Cervantes to Baroja and Beyond, Special issue, 2011, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXXVIII. , 7-8, ISSN/ISBN: 1475-3820
- Biggane, J. Introjection, Loss and the Politics of Possession in Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir, Article, 2005, Hispanic Review, 73, 3, pp329 - 349, ISSN/ISBN: 0018-2176
- Biggane, J. In a Liminal Space, Book, 2000
- Biggane, J. Yet Another Other: Unamuno's El otro and the anxiety for influence, Article, 2000, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, LXXVII, pp479 - 91, ISSN/ISBN: 1475-3839
- Biggane, J. Slippery When Wet: Fluid Metaphor in Pardo Bazán's Insolación, Article, 1999, Hispanic Studies Research Journal, 4, pp77 - 89