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Charlotte Byrne is a Teaching Fellow in Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the Centre for Catalan Studies. She is currently completing a Creative Writing PhD titled Remembering Queer Catalan Women in Anglophone Fiction of the Spanish Civil War, combining archival research, literary studies, and theories of translation and memory.
Her research interests include mid-20th century Catalan women’s writing, queer literature, autobiography, anarchism, corporality, postmemory, translation studies, La Movida Madrileña, and the films of Pedro Almodóvar. She teaches modules such as Catalan Culture: Art, Literature and Football and has previously taught creative writing and Iberian cultural studies.
Beyond academia, Byrne is an active novelist, with works published in journals like Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies and Hispanic Research Journal. Her creative output includes short stories and novels exploring themes of historical memory, gender, and cultural identity. She has supervised undergraduate creative writing dissertations and contributed to interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Her work bridges literary practice and historical inquiry, aiming to recover marginalized narratives of Catalan women during the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
