SALIS

Research Interests:

Spanish literature, in particular literature written by women in the twentieth century; popular fiction written by women and narratology. Contemporary Spain: women's situation in Spain Testimonial literature in Spain and Latin America

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• O'Byrne, Patricia. 2008. "Popular fiction in post-war Spain: the soothing subversive 'novela rosa'". Journal Of Romance Studies, 8, 2, pp37-57.
• O'Byrne, Patricia. 2008. THE TESTIMONIAL LITERATURE OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH WOMEN NOVELISTS: TWO CASE STUDIES. Romance Studies, Vol. 26, 1, pp75-85.
• O'Byrne, Patricia. 1999. "Spanish Women Novelists and the Censor (1945-1965)". Letras Femeninas, XXV, 1-2 Primavera - Otoño, pp199-212.

Selected Books

• O'Byrne, P., Carty, G. and Thornton, N. Transcultural Encounters Amongst Women: Redrawing Boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone Art, Literature and Film, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010.

Selected Chapters

• O'Byrne, Patricia. 2008. Eduaction for Marraige or Education for Life? The Challenge of Post-War Spanish Women Novelists to the Francoist Approach to the Education of Women. Dominant Culture and the Education of Women, pp221-235.
• O'Byrne, Patricia. 2006. Representaciones de la maternidad en la novela española (1940-1960). Construcciones culturales de la maternidad en España: la madre y la relación madre-hija en la literatura y el cine contemporáneos, pp31-44.

Reviews

• O'Byrne, Patricia. 2001. Homenaje a María Zambrano: estudios y correspondencia. Ed. By J. Valender, C. Blanco and A. Souto Alabarce. Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1998. Modern Language Review, 96,
• O'Byrne, Patricia. 1999. Rainy Days/ Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers. Ed. by Montserrat Lunati. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1997. Modern Language Review, 94,
• O'Byrne, Patricia. 1998. Spanish Women Writing 1849-1996 by Catherine Davies. London: The Athlone Press, 1998. Womens Studies Review, 6,

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• O'Byrne, Patricia. 1998. Spanish Women Novelists 1945-1960: Voices of Disillusion and Discontent. Actas del IV Congreso 'Cultura Europa' Pamplona: Aranzadi, 1998,

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• O'Byrne, Patricia, "The Seduction of Minors in the Mid-Twentieth Century Novel in Ireland and Spain", Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada (SELGYC) "La cultura de la seducción", 19-SEP-12 - 21-SEP-12, University of Salamanca
• O'Byrne, Patricia , "Ideological conflicts in the fiction of Carmen Laforet: A consideration of La mujer nueva" (1955), WISPS XII ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 10-NOV-11 - 11-NOV-11, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Post-war Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory", Habitar el género Inhabiting Gender XXI Congreso Anual de la AILCFH , 19-OCT-11 - 21-OCT-11, Universitat de Barcelona
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "The Novels of Sección Femenina writer Ángeles Villarta Tuñón: vehicles for Falangist ideology?", WISPS XI ANNUAL CONFERENCE, in collaboration with Women in German Studies (WIGS): FRIENDSHIP AND CROSS-CULTURAL CO-OPERATION , 12-NOV-10 - 14-NOV-10, Swansea University
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "First Nada (1945) then Todo (1951), AILCFH 2010 XX CONGRESO ANUAL ÉTICA Y EXPRESIONES CULTURALES , 14-OCT-10 - 16-OCT-10, University of Austin, Texas
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Susana March: una novela no tan rosa", Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas: "Literatura menor": voces marginales del mundo hispánico', 28-MAY-10 - 31-MAY-10, Concordia University, Montreal.
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Entre visillos: a narratological reading", Hispanic Lecture Series, 01-DEC-09 - , NUIM Maynooth
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Más que humor: La novelística de Remedios Orad", 2009 XVIII Congreso de la AILCFH: Memoria y Frontera, 01-OCT-09 - 03-OCT-09, Quito, Ecuador. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "The influence of the popular novela rosa on the fiction of Carmen Laforet", 2009 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 16-APR-09 - 18-APR-09, University of Kentucky
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Subversion of a genre: Carmen Laforet and the novela rosa.", Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies IX Annual Conference, Transcultural Encounters , 31-OCT-08 - 01-NOV-08, Dublin City University
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Ángeles Villarta Tuñón: ¿portavoz de la propaganda de la Sección Femenina o novelista neorrealista de la posguerra?", II Congreso Internacional Escritoras y Compromiso. Literatura española e hispanoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI, 27-MAY-08 - 30-MAY-08, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid
• O'Byrne, Patricia, , NarrativEncounters Conference, 15-FEB-08 - 17-FEB-08, University College Cork
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "'Cada oveja a su pareja y cada cual, en su casa': From racism to acceptance of the "female other" in Iciar Bollain's Flores de otro mundo (1999)"., XVII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica: Mujeres Transatlánticas. Cruces de Lenguas. Zonas de Encuentros, 24-OCT-07 - 27-OCT-07, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas de Sevilla
• O'Byrne, Patricia, Me/Myself/I: The Local and the Particular, VIII Annual Confernece of Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 12-OCT-07 - 13-OCT-07, University of Manchester
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "El uso de técnicas narrativas para sortear la censura en la España de Franco: un estudio del autor implícito en La vieja ley (1956) de Carmen Kurtz", In: Centro de Estudios de Narratología ed.Cuatro Simposio Internacional del Centro de Estudios de Narratología. Creación y proyección de los discursos narrativos, 23-JUL-07 - 25-JUL-07, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• O'Byrne, Patricia, , New Perspectives on the Spanish Transtion to Democracy, 18-MAY-07 - 19-MAY-07, Kings College, London.
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "Testimonial Literature and Spanish Women Novelists", Romance Studies Colloquium: Literature Matters, 19-OCT-06 - 21-OCT-06, University of Oregan
• O'Byrne, Patricia, "The Spanish Literary Canon and post-war Women Novelists", XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, 05-OCT-06 - 08-OCT-06, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah