Lecturer

Email: deirdre.kelly@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205488

Deirdre Kelly

Lecturer

Email: deirdre.kelly@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205488

Lecturer 

BA Trinity College, University of Dublin 

Ph.D, Trinity College, University of Dublin 

Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, TU Dublin 

Deirdre Kelly joined TU Dublin in 2016, after completing a PhD in Trinity College, Dublin, where she also taught. Her research areas include: twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spanish literature; Rosa Montero and other contemporary Spanish authors; Spanish women’s writing; Spanish life writing; contemporary Spanish graphic novels; memory debates in contemporary Spain; and Spain and the Holocaust. She welcomes doctoral proposals on any of these topics. 

Deirdre has taught Spanish language and translation at various levels, and several modules on Spanish and Latin-American literary and cultural studies. She currently teaches: ‘Spain and the Holocaust’, ‘Spanish and Latin American Studies’, Advanced Spanish Language; and she supervises undergraduate dissertations.  

Since 2024, Deirdre has served as the co-editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies, building on her six years of experience as the co-editor of the Open Forum section. From 2017 to 2023, Deirdre was a regular contributing editor to The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. She is a Board Member, and the Electronic Communications Officer, of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, and is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Franco-Irish Studies. Deirdre is the Year Tutor for Second Years on the IBL Programme at TU Dublin and an External Examiner for Munster Technological University.  

Deirdre is currently completing a monograph on Rosa Montero’s life writing. She is also working on a research project that focuses on the representation in contemporary graphic novels of Spanish Republicans in Nazi concentration camps. Deirdre has published peer-reviewed articles, reviews and interviews in Journal of Romance Studies, International Journal of Iberian Studies, The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, and several book chapters in edited volumes.  

Publications, Conference Presentations, Editing: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0323-8906  

https://tudublin.academia.edu/DeirdreKelly