Lucy Foster
lf383@cam.ac.uk
PhD Candidate in Spanish and Latin American Studies.
Bye Fellow in Spanish, Christ's College.
Affiliated Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese, MMLL.
College:
Jesus College
Research:
My research is concerned with twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican art and literature, with a special interest in representations of coastal areas and communities in relation to histories of conquest, slavery and vulnerable ecosystems.
I completed undergraduate and Masters degrees in English at Christ Church, Oxford, after which I worked in Mexico and London in fiction publishing and translation before coming to Cambridge.
Teaching:
SP1: ‘Introduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-speaking World’
SPB2: ‘Translation from Spanish’
SPA2: ‘Translation from Spanish’
SPA3: ‘Introduction to Hispanic Literature’
SP5: ‘Latin American History and Culture’
SP12: ‘Latin American Culture (pre-1973)’
SP13: ‘Contemporary Latin American Culture’
Year Abroad projects
Optional Dissertations, SP12 and SP13.
Research Interests:
Examples of talks and research engagements:
‘Slow Violence: Art and Environment in twentieth-century Mexican visual culture’, Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA), 2020
‘Arte y activismo ecológico en la costa mexicana’, invited lecture, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de las Américas (UDLAP), Puebla, Mexico, 2019
‘After Disaster: involuntary installations, spontaneous sculptures and the recuperation of place in the wake of Hurricane Paulina’, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona, Spain, 2018
‘Dreams of Acapulco: oneiric visions of slavery and empire in the work of Lola Álvarez Bravo and Cristóbal Gracia’ Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, 2018
‘Erosions: Coastal and Geological Imaginaries in Latin American Artistic Practice’, symposium of artists and academics, co-convened with Erica Segre. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2017
Published Work:
'Afro-Mexico: Images of the Indeterminate’ in Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America, eds. Jenny Mander, David Midgley, Christine Beaule (Routledge, 2019)
