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First Name
Lauren
Last Name
Rea
Country
United Kingdom
State
Affiliation
University of Sheffield (UK)
Website URL
http://www.proyectobilliken.group.shef.ac.uk/, www.grandesmujeres.lat
Keywords
Argentina, Cultural History, Children's Culture, Magazines, Print Cultures, Digital
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PhD
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About Me

Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

PhD King’s College London (2009)

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellow, 2016-19

Principal Investigator British Academy GCRF Diverse Childhoods and Educational Inequalities in Post-Pandemic Argentina 2021-23 (https://efemeridesinterculturales.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/).

Co-director of the Great Latin American Women Project (www.grandesmujeres.lat)

Recent Publications
  • Rea, L. Children’s Culture and Citizenship in Argentina: A History of Billiken Magazine (1919-2019) (York: White Rose University Press, 2023). Open Access:

    https://doi.org/10.22599/Billiken

    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 Billiken Children’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.infobae.com/sociedad/2022/08/10/manuel-puig-radionovelas-y-un-libro-sobre-billiken-la-academica-inglesa-que-esta-fascinada-con-la-cultura-popular-argentina/
Country Focus
Argentina
Expertise by Geography
Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Gender, Literary History, Material Culture, Women