Participant Info
- First Name
- Lauren
- Last Name
- Rea
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- l.rea@sheffield.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Sheffield (UK)
- Website URL
- http://www.proyectobilliken.group.shef.ac.uk/
- Keywords
- Argentina, Cultural History, Children's Culture, Magazines, Print Cultures, Digital
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
PhD King’s College London (2009)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellow, 2016-19
Co-coordinator and co-author 100 Grandes Mujeres Latinoamericanas (forthcoming with Editorial Atlántida in Argentina)
- Recent Publications
- MONOGRAPH Rea, L. Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930-1943: Transmitting Nationhood (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2013).
- Rea, L. ‘Trajectories in Argentine Children’s Literature: Constancio C. Vigil and Horacio Quiroga.’ International Research in Children’s Literature 12.1 (2019) 76-89. Special issue on Curating National Histories of Children’s Literature.
- Rea, L. ‘The Newsboy’s Good Deed: Billiken Magazine’s Construction of Argentine Childhood in 1942.’ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 12. 1 (2019): 68-87.
- Rea, L. ‘Education, Popular Literature and Future Citizenship in Argentina’s BillikenChildren’s Magazine (1919–1944).’ Global Studies of Childhood3 (2018): 281-291. Special issue on Childhood Studies and Popular Culture.
- Rea, L. ‘Afro-Porteñas in Héctor Pedro Blomberg’s Historical Romances.’ Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 5 (2015): 583-599.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.gente.com.ar/actualidad/billiken-un-orgullo-argentino-reconocido-en-el-reino-unido/
- @DraLRea
- Country Focus
- Argentina
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 5, 8, 9
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Gender, Literary History, Material Culture, Women