Sarah Ellis
Proteanism of the picaresque: from mapping crisis and “Castilianism” to the renaissance of the rogue as a neo-postwar paradigm.
Biography
I am a Postgraduate Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Liverpool, who fuses together a Spanish Golden Age literary phenomenon known as the picaresque, with modern-day Spanish national identity in times of political and socioeconomic crisis and corruption through exploring the shift in the lexical metamorphism of the term "picaresque" throughout key transitional moments past and present.
As of July 2022, I successfully passed my 30,000-word thesis and viva voce exam to be awarded a Master of Arts (MA) by Research in Spanish Literature through the University of Leeds. Prior to this, I graduated from the University of Exeter in 2017 with a BA (Hons) in Spanish and Italian with proficiency in Portuguese after also having completed a year abroad split between Salamanca, Spain and Venice, Italy.
I actively look for opportunities where I can disseminate my research, having presented at several conferences including Oxford University’s CLSG 2021 conference; with a subsequent publication in CLSG’s The Glass Academic Journal to follow, Leeds’ LCS Postgraduate Conference, Durham Castle’s 2021 conference and the 2021 CELPYC virtual conference.
Research Interests
My research interests include Spanish literature; most notably the Spanish picaresque, the Spanish Golden Age and Spanish socio-historical conditions during this period, modern-day Spain; including the postwar period and the aftermath of the Civil War, Spanish politics from Franco’s dictatorship to the modern day, the Spanish neopicaresque and other contemporary strands including the quasi/para-picaresque, Spanish national identity – especially that of “Castilianism” as opposed to regionalism(s).