Yazar: Kathy Bacon

Kathy Bacon is the author of Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursilería and Saintliness in Spanish Novels (Oxford: Legenda, 2007). She holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, and has researched and taught at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, and the University of Stirling. Her research currently focuses upon the appropriation of St Teresa of Ávila in the service of discourses of gender and nationhood in Spain from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.Niamh Thornton has been a Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language, Latin American Culture and Film Studies at the University of Ulster since 2004. She co-founded, and continues to be an editor of the journal Film and Film Culture. She has published a monograph, Women and the Novela de la Revolución in Mexico (New York and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006) and two co-edited books, Transcultural Encounters: Film, Literature, Art (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and Revolucionarias: Gender and Revolution in Latin America (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007).