Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times

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María Losada Friend received a Masters in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA and a PhD in English Philology from the University of Sevilla Spain. She is Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Huelva Spain and a member of the Research Group Antonio Jacobo del Barco on Comparative Literature issues and the Spanish Association of Irish Studies. Her contributions to various projects funded by the Spanish Ministry are related to the analysis of literary and artistic perspectives in eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth-century narratives. She edited Teaching Ireland: New Didactic Approaches to Cultural Linguistic and Literary Issues (2010) and co-edited Dreaming the Future: New Horizons/Old Barriers in 21st-Century Ireland (2011).Dr Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides is a Lecturer in English at the University of Huelva Spain. She has conducted extensive research on the intersection of gender nation family and social history in contemporary Ireland as well as single maternity in Irish fiction and cinema. Her publications include Sólo ellas: familia y feminismo en la novela irlandesa contemporánea (2003) and she co-edited Espacios de Género (2005) Single Motherhood in Twentieth Century Ireland: Cultural Historical and Social Essays (2006) Gendering Citizenship and Globalization (2011) and Experiencing Gender: International Approaches (2015). She has published book chapters and articles on a variety of Irish authors including Catherine Dunne Mary Rose Callaghan Edna OBrien and Mary Leland among others. Her current research interests focus on the cultural productions about Irelands Magdalene Laundries and the social dimension of John Banvilles crime fiction. She is an active member of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies and is its current Treasurer.Pilar Ron Vaz received a PhD in Linguistics from Northwestern University. She is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Huelva Spain and her research focuses on contrastive pragmatics and discourse analysis. She is co-editor of The Historical Linguistics Cognitive Linguistics Interface (2006) and A Real Civilization: El legado británico en la provincia de Huelva (2008).