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HOWES, Christina Angela

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HOWES, Christina Angela

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Education, Faculty of Education Sciences. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Academic curriculum
  • Doctor en Filologia Anglesa Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Màster en Lingüistica Aplicada a l'ensenyament d'anglés com llengua estrangera Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
  • Máster en estudios ingleses avanzados: literatura y cultura por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • B.A Honours Degree: Francès UNIVERSITY OF WALES CARDIFF

Publications

Articles
Book chapters
  • Howes, C., (22/02/2024), "Legacies of War: A Pedagogical Approach to Sustainable Peace Education Using Literature as a Tool of Enquiry", Ámbitos y perspectivas actuales en lingüística y literatura, pp. 107-124, Comares. ISBN: 978-84-1369-615-7.
  • Howes, C., (01/03/2018), "NOT QUITE AT HOME: ARCHITECTURE, AUTHENTICITY AND TRANSMODERNITY IN RACHEL SEIFFERT’S “ARCHITECT”", Persistence and Resistance in English Studies: New Research, pp. 11-18, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0608-4.

Projects and research

  • Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English01/09/2020
    IP: Howes, C.
    Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad

Activities

  • "POSTMEMORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD" International Interdisciplinary Conference Ponència "‘Into the Arms of Strangers’: Postmemorial Engagement with Jewish Child Refugees in Julien Borger’s I Seek A kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust.", 2024.
  • 4th "POSTMEMORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD" International Interdisciplinary Conference Ponència "“All Hell Let Loose” on the Post-war Homefront: Postmemorial Engagement with Returning Combatants of World War II.", 2023.
  • 6th International Conference on Linguistics and Literature Ponència "“We Have All Been Marked by War”: A Pedagogical Approach to War Induced Anxiety in Higher Education Students Using Literature as a Tool of Enquiry", 2022.
  • III Congreso Internacional CreadorAS en la Educación Literaria e Intercultural Ponència "Teaching the Female War Experience in Higher Education through a Critical Analysis of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway", 2022.
  • Third Postmemory and the Contemporary World: International Interdisciplinary Conference Ponència "Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Critiquing the Modern Condition through a Poetics of the Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas’ Burma Boy", 2022.
  • XLIV Congreso Nacional del Asociación Española de Estudios Ingleses y Norte-Americanos Ponència "Cautionary Tales from the Irish Borderlands: An Eco-philosophical Reading of Eugene McCabe’s Heaven Lies About Us", 2021.
  • Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature. International Conference Ponència "From Home to Hostile Space: The Aesthetics of the Spatial Uncanny in Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room", 2021.
  • Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture Ponència "Facilitating Online Small Group Learning in Higher Education using Breakout Rooms", 2021.
  • Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Athropocene: International Conference Ponència "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotton that we belong to each other": Connectedness, Humanism and 'Dwelling' in the Fiction of Rachel Seiffert", 2020.
  • Border-Crossing Experiences in Contemporary War Literature Ponència "A Phenomenological Exploration of Borders in the Fiction of Rachel Seiffert", 2019.