Participant Info

First Name
Lauren
Last Name
Rea
Country
United Kingdom
State
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
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Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

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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/
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