Victoria Carpenter

Dr. Victoria Carpenter is Head of Research Development at the University of Bedfordshire’s Research Institute for Media, Arts and Performance (RIMAP). She holds a BSc (Summa Cum Laude) in Spanish/Foreign Language Education from the University of Central Florida (1996) and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Hull (2000). Her academic leadership spans research management, postgraduate supervision, and interdisciplinary collaboration between sciences and humanities.

Research interests focus on Latin American literature’s engagement with violence, historical memory, and power dynamics. Key themes include the interplay of emotions/factual accuracy in catastrophic narratives, discursive mediation post-disasters, and identity theory in digital contexts. Her work frequently explores 20th-century Mexican literature, notably analyses of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre and its cultural reverberations.

Publications include monographs like The Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico 1968, and the Emotional Triangle of Anger, Grief and Shame (2018), edited volumes on cross-disciplinary approaches, and peer-reviewed articles in Hispanic Review, Caribbean Quarterly, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. She co-leads research projects on hurricane recovery in Jamaica and collaborates internationally on disaster discourse analysis.

Academic service includes founding the Latin American Literary Studies Association (2012–present) and roles in the Society for Latin American Studies. She reviews for top journals like Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and presents at global conferences, including keynote addresses on disaster narratives and Shakespearean criticism in Argentina.

Her work bridges cultural analysis with practical applications, such as collaborative frameworks between communities and local governments post-disasters. Supervision expertise spans diverse disciplines within arts and humanities.