CLAIRE LOUISE TAYLOR, PhD
School of Modern Languages (Hispanic Section), University of Liverpool
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies.
King’s College, Cambridge University
PhD in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, funded by studentship award
from the AHRB. Title of thesis: ‘Configurations of Identity in the Works of Albalucía
Ángel, Laura Esquivel and Griselda Gambaro’.
PUBLICATIONS
Single-Authored Books
Claire Taylor, Bodies and Texts: Configurations of Identity in the Works of Griselda
Gambaro, Albalucía Ángel and Laura Esquivel. 202pp. (Leeds: Maney for the
MHRA, 2003).
Edited Books
Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman, eds., Latin American Cyberculture and
Cyberliterature (Liverpool: LUP, 2007).
Claire Taylor, ed, Identity, Nation, Discourse: Latin American Women Writers and
Artists (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
Articles in Refereed Journals
Claire Taylor, ‘Bodily Mutilation and the Dismemberment of Discourse in the Novels
of Griselda Gambaro’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 37:3, pp. 326-336 (July
2001).
Claire Taylor, ‘Body-Swapping and Genre-Crossing in Laura Esquivel’s La ley del
amor’, Modern Language Review, 97:2, pp. 324-335 (April 2002).
Claire Taylor, ‘Cities, Codes and Cyborgs in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra’,
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 80: 4, pp. 477-493 (July 2003).
Claire Taylor, ‘Wandering Texts and Theories in Albalucía Ángel’s Las andariegas’,
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 12:2, pp.247-259 (August/December
2006).
Claire Taylor, ‘Geographical and Corporeal Transformations in Carmen Boullosa’s
Duerme’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 83:3, pp. 225-239 (2006).
Claire Taylor, ‘Latin American Feminist Criticism: Helena Araújo’s La Scherezada
criolla, Tesserae/Journal of Iberian And Latin American Studies (2008).
Chapters and Parts of Books
Claire Taylor, ‘María Luisa Bemberg Winks at the Audience: Performativity and
Citation in Camila and Yo, la peor de todas’, in Shaw and Dennison, eds., Latin
American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity (Jefferson:
McFarland, 2005), pp. 110-124.
Claire Taylor, sections on popular music, literature, religion and culture (approx
20,000 words) for Shaw and Dennison, Pop Culture Latin America! Media, Arts, and
Lifestyle (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2005).
Claire Taylor, ‘Laura Esquivel’, in vol. 5 of Popular Contemporary Writers, ed.
Michael D. Sharp (Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2006).
Claire Taylor, ‘Saliéndose del asunto: la revisión del discurso histórico en Estaba la
pájara pinta de Albalucía Ángel’, in Gloria Triana, ed., Homenaje a Albalucía Ángel
(Bogotá: Consejería Presidencial, 2006), pp. 79-85.
Claire Taylor, ‘The Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Empires’ and ‘Postcolonial
Locations: South America’ in McLeod, ed., Routledge Companion to Postcolonial
Studies (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 46-58 and pp. 120-128.
Claire Taylor, ‘Virtual Bodies in Cyberspace: Guzik Glantz’s Weblog’ in Taylor and
Pitman, eds., Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (Liverpool: LUP,
2007), pp. 244-256.
Claire Taylor, ‘Feminist Theory and Latin American Cultural Practice’, in Davies,
Kumaraswami and Williams, eds., Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2008), pp. 92-106.
Claire Taylor, ‘García Márquez in Film and Other Media’, in Philip Swanson, ed, The
Cambridge Companion to García Márquez (Cambridge: CUP, at press).
Claire Taylor, ‘Laura Esquivel and the boom femenino: Popular Genres and Double
Encoding’, in Nuala Finnegan and Jane Lavery, eds, The Boom Femenino in Mexico:
Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing (at press).
Claire Taylor, 'Laura Esquivel' in A Companion to Latin American Women Writers ed.
Lloyd Davies (London: Tamesis, at press).