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• Licenciada en Filología Hispánica(Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao)
• PhD (Michigan State University)

Mónica Jato currently teaches on Core Modules I and II in Year I.  She runs a specialist option in year 2, Digital Media and Spanish Youth Culture, which explores the impact of audiovisual cultures on the construction of contemporary subjects and realities in Spain. Her final year module, Spanish Exile Culture, reflects critically on fundamental notions in today’s world such as displacement, transnationality, resilience, cross-border cultures and otherness. Through a multifocal approach, combining the applied study of postcolonial thought, exile studies and cultural analysis, the module also addresses issues of inclusivity, diversity and equality around migration processes.

• Cross-cultural approaches to exile and migration
• Memory as inter and transgenerational care
• Testimony and Film
• Contemporary Spanish Poetry
• 20th and 21st Spanish Peninsular Literature

My research interests focus on cross-cultural comparative approaches to exile and migration. I am also interested in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spanish peninsular literature and culture. I am currently supervising theses on contemporary Spanish women writers, memory texts of the Spanish Civil War, carceral writing and forced migration.

My research focuses on new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Spanish exile culture and to the condition of exile more generally. I am particularly interested in exploring the different cultural strategies used by migrants to adapt to radical changes in their spatial environment. My monograph聽El 茅xodo espa帽ol de 1939: una topolog铆a cultural del exilio (Brill, 2019) explores Spanish refugees' attempts to transform the at times dehumanizing sapaces of exile into 'places' as sites of cultural resistance and renewal.

I was the Co-Investigator of the three-year project (2017-2019) "Inner and Territorial Exile in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain: A Comparative Study," funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Emerging from this project, my most recent monograph,聽Fractured Frontiers: The Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain聽(Camden House, 2020) challenges the traditional view that inner and territorial exile constitute opposed and irreconcilable aspects of writing under oppression. In establishing the historical reality of both forms of exile and proposing inner exile as more than mere metaphor, it martials evidence to argue that the two bodies of writing can be viewed as opposite sides of the same exile coine. The comparative approach pursued, with its insights into common patterns of behaviour, provides a template for wider-ranging cross-cultural studies of fissure and legacy through longitudinal analysis of the discursive formation of alterity and displacement, territoriality and exterritoriality, and of contested national identity.

I am also interested in problematizing Spanish twentieth century literary historiography by introducing new perspectives into its聽canon and producing scholarly editions of underrepresented women's voices. I have published Silvia Mistral's聽脡xodo. Diario de una refugiada espa帽ola (Cuadernos del Vig铆a, 2021) and聽惭补诲谤茅辫辞谤补蝉听(Cuadernos del Vig铆a, 2019),聽Diario de un retorno: Correspondencia entre Cecilia G. de Guilarte y Silvia Mistral (Ulises, 2015), Cecilia G. de Guilarte's聽Un barco cargado de... (Renacimiento, 2012) and Mar铆a Beneyto's聽Cuentos para d铆as de lluvia (Instituci贸n Alfonso El Magn谩nimo, 2012).

• Member of GEXEL (Grupo de Estudios del Exilio Literario, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
• Fenix: Network for Research on Female Exiles, Refugees and Migrants (Utrecht University)
• PoGEsp (Spanish Poetry and Gender, University of Alicante)