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Research Interests
Fiona is currently working on the intersection between textiles and literature, focusing on the medium of Chilean arpilleras as a means of creative reading. In her classes, she also explores the material culture of Cuban Handmade books, building upon the collection held by the McClay Library and teaches on Latin American 18th-century art.
Fiona completed her PhD in Hispanic Studies at Queen’s University Belfast in 2003, focusing on the Gazeta de Literatura de México (1788-1795) and the developing role of periodical literature and science in eighteenth-century Mexico.
In 2005 she became postdoctoral fellow in the History Department of St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. This fellowship enabled her to undertake a new project investigating the role of an eighteenth-century Irish military physician in colonial Mexico. This research was then further funded to continue at QUB by the AHRC and the Wellcome Trust.
Particulars
Fiona is currently the Recruitment lead for Modern Languages in the School of Arts, English and Languages. She served as the Director of Education for the School of Modern Languages in 2015-16. She has also been Director of the Latin American Studies Forum 2010-2016 andwas actively involved with the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CECS) at Queen’s University. In 2015-16 she will co-direct an interdisciplinary research group on 'Framing Epidemics' with Dr Ida Milne (School of History and Anthropology) funded by the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities. She has been Assistant Editor for the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and from 2007 -2009, held responsibility for the 'Spanish American Literature: Colonial Period (1492-1800) in The Years Work in Modern Language Studies.
Teaching
Fiona is currently coordinator of Spanish language teaching for Post-'A' level. She also offers undergraduate and postgraduate modules on early and modern Latin American literature, culture, and history of medicine. She has previously worked in the area of TEFL in a number of Spanish speaking countries as well as in Queen's.
Current postgraduate supervision - textiles and creative readings, material culture and reading practices.
Past postgraduate supervision: 18th century Ireland-Latin America networks in medicine; eco-criticism and modern 20th and 21st century Latin American literature; Colombia and Northern Ireland - grass roots women's organisations and peacebuilding.
UG and PG Modules:
- Level 1 (Post 'A' Level) Spanish language
- Level 1 - Introduction to Latin American Studies
- Level 2 - Encuentros Maravillosos: tales of survival
- Level 2 - Protecting Paradise (arts and ecological issues)
- Level 3 - Disease and Society
- Level 3 - Wrapping Words cursillo: Cuban handmade books
Achievements
2023: Shortlisted for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Innovation and Leadership Link
2021: Winner of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Learning Award for Student Engagement.
2013: The Wellcome Trust Small Grant for colloquium:
'The paths of medical un/orthodoxy? Colonial Latin America and its World'
2013: The Society for the Social History of Medicine conference funding for:
'The paths of medical un/orthodoxy? Colonial Latin America and its World'
2011-2012: The Wellcome Trust Research Leave Fellowship.
2011-2012: AHRC Early Career Research Fellowship.
2008: The Wellcome Trust Symposium Funding for: Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
2008: The Royal Historical Society workshop grant for: Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
2005-2007: Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2006: Society for Irish Latin American Studies, Irish Latin American Research
Fund.
2006: Fellowship for the 10th International Summer School in History of Science,
Uppsala, Sweden,
2005: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant.
2003: ISECS Bursary Fellowship for the International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century and the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Quadrennial Congress 2003, UCLA Centre for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies.
2003: Margaret McGuire Cutshall Graduate Research Travel Grant, Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Projects
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R1005MLA: Scratching below the surface: empire, authority, and venereal disease (Mexico City, 1789-1798)
Clark, F. (PI)
01/08/2011 → 31/10/2012
Project: Research
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Cosiendo historias: textiles, texts, and wellbeing
Clark, F., 13 Jun 2024, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 101, 4, p. 353-369Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Literary Arpilleras: textiles as place-based, creative pedagogy
Clark, F., 14 Sept 2022, In: Modern Languages Open. 2022, 1, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review: ARÍ PÉREZ MARÍN, Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2020. xi + 180 pp.
Clark, F., 2021, In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 98, 6, p. 999-1000 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Review of Pablo F. Gómez, Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the early Modern Atlantic (North Carlina Press, 2017)
Clark, F., 12 Apr 2019, In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America. 96, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Appealing to the Republic of Letters: An Autopsy of Anti-venereal Trials in Eighteenth-century Mexico
Clark, F., 2017, In: Social History of Medicine. Highlight Issue, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Faculty of Arts Humanities and Soscial Sciences Digital Learning Award: Student Engagement
Clark, Fiona (Recipient), Jun 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Shortlisted for category 'Leadership and Innovation' - AHSS Digital Teaching and Learning Awards 2023
Clark, Fiona (Recipient), 06 Jun 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Spanish and Portuguese Student Society Award
Clark, Fiona (Recipient), Jun 2021
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Wrapping Words: Student Exhibition
Fiona Clark (Organiser)
11 Jun 2024 → 07 Sept 2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Tara Munroe
Fiona Clark (Host)
31 Jan 2024Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Tara Munroe
Fiona Clark (Host)
29 Jan 2024 → 30 Jan 2024Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Story Threads: Creative Readings Exhibition
Fiona Clark (Organiser)
18 Jan 2024 → 05 Apr 2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Roberta Bacic
Fiona Clark (Host)
01 Nov 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor