SALIS

Biographical Details:

BA in Translation Studies - English, German, and Spanish (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona 2005). MA in Comparative Literature (Dublin City University 2007). PhD in Comparative Literature - Viva held Nov -2012. Award: accepted with no changes. Doctoral Scholarip of the Government of Ireland scholar (IRCHSS 2008-2012). Co-supervised PhD between the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and Dublin City University. Title: "The Architectural Void: Space as Transgression in Postmodern Short Fiction of the Fantastic (1974-2010)". Courses Taught: Spanish Language, Spanish Literature, Writing and Comparative Literature since 2008 (Dublin City University) LANGUAGES: Spanish and Catalan: native. English: C2. German: C1. French: C1. http://encls.net/?q=profile/patricia-garcia

Research Interests:

*Space in Literary Theory* *Geocriticism, Geopoetics* *Human Spatiality* *The Fantastic - 19th and 20th century - History and Criticism* *The Short Story - History and Criticism* TEACHING AREAS: *Comparative Literature* *Space Theory in Literature and Other Disciplines* *Spanish and Latin American Short Fiction* *Advanced Spanish Language* *Academic Writing* *Creative Writing*

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Garcia, Patricia. 2013. "El espacio como sujeto fantastico en en 'Los palafitos' (Angel Olgoso, 2007)". [Forthcoming: January 2013]. Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispanicos. vol.1,
• Garcia, Patricia. (coord.). 2013. "Space and the Fantastic". Brumal: Research Journal on the Fantastic. February 2013.
• Garcia, Patricia. 2012. "The Lighthouse (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernandez Cubas, 1997): from the Egocentred to a Geocentred Analysis" Shipwreck and Island Summer School Publication.[submitted].
• Garcia, Patricia. 2012. "The Fantastic of Place and the Fantastic of Space: Two Models of Transgression". [Forthcoming: January 2013]. Revista Letras & Letras. Universidade Federal de Uberlandia.. Fantastic Literature: fictional and theoretical frames of the unusual.Vol. 28, Num. 2.,

Selected Books

• Garcia, Patricia. El texto rizoma: el analisis literario como principio para desarrollar la escritura creativa en la enseñanza de ELE. [Envisaged date: Spring 2013], 2013.
• Garcia, Patricia. The Architectural Void: Space as Transgression in Postmodern Short Fiction of the Fantastic (1974-2010). [Envisaged date: April 2013], 2013.
• Garcia, Patricia. Displacing the Self in Fiction: Identity and Exile in Thomas Bernhard and Agota Kristov, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
• Official Translator. Authors:Garcia, P.; Marce, X.; Rovira, J. ¡Marca un gol, papa!, J.M.Bosch Editor,, 2008.

Selected Chapters

• Garcia, Patricia. 2013. "JG Ballard's One-Person Worlds. The Synergy of Interior Architecture and Text". Deterritorializing Practices in Literary Studies. Toronto: NorteSur, 2013. [Forthcoming, December 2013].
• Garcia, Patricia. 2012. "Cristina Fernández Cubas: la vida está llena de umbrales. Es muy fácil pasarlos. Lo difícil es volver". Entrevista a Cristina Fernández Cubas. Biblioteca Literaria 2012, pp36-40.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Garcia, Patricia; Sanjulian, Carmen (eds). 2012. Ciudades literarias: antologia del Curso de escritura creativa y literatura. Vol. 3 [online]. Instituto Cervantes Dublin,
• Garcia, Patricia; Sanjulian, Carmen (eds). 2012. Literatura y los sentidos: antologia del Curso de escritura creativa y literatura. Vol. 2. [online]. Instituto Cervantes Dublin,
• Garcia, Patricia; Sanjulian, Carmen (eds). 2011. Del dinosaurio demprimido al cerdito en bancarrota: antologia de textos del Curso de escritura creativa y literatura. Vol 1.[online]. Instituto Cervantes de Dublin,
• Patricia Garcia. 2010. "Los escondites de la realidad: el espacio fantastico en el relato Mi hermana Elba de Cristina Fernandez Cubas". Actas Coloquio Internacional: Lo fantastico en la literatura y arte en Latinoamerica. ,
• Patricia Garcia. 2008. "The Aesthetics of Dislocation: Liminality in Jose Maria Merino and Juan Jose Millas". Selected Proceedings of the 1st Comparative Literature Association of Ireland Conference,

• Organising Board and Conference Speaker, "La frase umbral: cruce posmoderno al espacio fantastico", Visiones de lo fantastico en la cultura espanola contemporanea. I Congreso Internacional sobre lo Fantastico en narrativa, teatro, cine, television, comic y videojuegos, 19-NOV-12 - 21-NOV-12, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
• Co-organiser with Mr. Jean-Philippe Imbert., , The Birth of a Paradigm: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Space (But Were Afraid to Ask). A Comparative Literature Workshop., 26-NOV-11 - , Dublin City University, Ireland
• Garcia, Patricia, "Horizontal Vertigo. A Travelling Concept", SALIS Postgraduate Showcase, 09-NOV-11 - , Dublin City University, Ireland
• Organiser. Round Table., , El cuento que vendra: Literatura fantastica. Encuentro con Cristina Fernandez Cubas y David Roas., 18-OCT-11 - , Instituto Cervantes Dublin
• Garcia, Patricia, "The Horizontal Vertigo of 'Having a Wonderful Time' (JG Ballard, 1978)", 4th International REELC/ENCLS Congress: Literary Dislocations / Deplacements litteraires, 01-SEP-11 - 05-SEP-11, Skopje-Ohrid, Macedonia.
• Summer University, , Moderne, Modernite, Post-Moderne, 11-JUL-11 - 15-JUL-11, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France.
• Summer University, , The Motifs of the Island and Shipwreck in Literature and the Arts, 06-JUL-11 - 08-JUL-11, Dublin City University, Ireland.
• Garcia, Patricia, "Espacios narrativos, topografia y arquitectura en lo fantastico: el ejemplo de 'Los palafitos' (Angel Olgoso, 2007)", IX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantasstica. Lo fantastico: Este y Oeste, 28-JUN-11 - 01-JUL-11, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.
• Guest Lecturer. , "Networks, Concrete Islands and Non-Places: Urban Tropes of the Contemporary Fantastic", Comparative Literature Seminars, 01-MAR-11 - , Lebanese American University. Beirut, Lebanon.
• Garcia, Patricia, "JG Ballard's Utopias of the Mind: The Symbiotic Relationship of Architecture and Intimacy", Third Comparative Literature Association of Ireland International Postgraduate Symposium, 26-NOV-10 - 27-NOV-10, University of Limerick, Ireland.
• Garcia, Patricia, "Perforations of Reality: the Motif of the Hole in the (Spanish) Contemporary Fantastic", Konferenz der Gesellschaft fuer Fantastikforschung. Fremde Welten. Wege und Raeume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert, 30-SEP-10 - 03-OCT-10, University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• Garcia, Patricia, "Transgressing the Transgressed. The Territories of the Contemporary Fantastic", Amsterdam School of Cultural Studies International Workshop. Articulation(s), 22-MAR-10 - 24-MAR-10, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Garcia, Patricia, Panel Chair, Second Comparative Literature Association of Ireland International Postgraduate Symposium, 28-NOV-09 - 29-NOV-09, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
• Garcia, Patricia, "The Hideouts of Reality: Fantastic Spaces in Mi hermana Elba by Cristina Fernandez Cubas", Coloquio Internacional: Lo fantastico en la literatura y el arte en Latinoamerica, 10-SEP-09 - 09-NOV-09, Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima.
• Garcia, Patricia, "The Aesthetics of Dislocation: Liminality in Jose Maria Merino and Juan Jose Millas", First Comparative Literature Association of Ireland International Postgraduate Symposium, 28-NOV-08 - 29-NOV-08, Dublin City University, Ireland.
• Garcia, Patricia, "Liminality and the Fantastic", SALIS Research Seminars, 15-MAR-08 - , Dublin City University, Ireland.