Research interests
I am the author of two books (2005; 2015) and the co-editor of one book on the Boom Femenino (2010, see research publications). I have published on multimedia works of Latin American artists and writers including a partly funded British Academy monograph on the works of the Mexican multimedia writer Mexican Ana Clavel (Lavery, 2015), which received extensive media coverage (see below); a journal article on the poet and performance artist Regina José Galindo (2012, Lavery and Bowskill) and a journal article on the multimedia artist writer Eli Neira (Bowskill and Lavery, 2020).
I am currently involved in a research project with co-researcher Dr Sarah Bowskill (University Queen’s Belfast) on multimedia women and writers from the Spanish speaking world and whose works straddle multiple disciplines (literature, art performance, photography, video, art installation, cyberspace). The research I conducted in Mexico City as part of the BA award for my Clavel monograph above will also form the basis of this project. The intended research outputs include a co-written book and co-edited book, articles, conferences, mobile exhibitions at WSA and CAS online residencies between Lain American and British multimedia artists. This project will be in collaboration with Chapel Arts Studios organisation and artists and WSA. We have received funding from PERU, WSA and CAS to conduct various activities including online residencies and exhibtions. The artists and writers whose works will be exhibited at the WSA and CAS exhibitions will be contributing, with a number of international leading academics on their works, to a volume which is being co-edited by Lavery and Bowskill with the State University of New York’s prestigious SUNY press. We were invited to an “in conversation” event at Kettle’s Yard gallery (Cambridge) with Biennale Award winner Regina José Galindo which was pitched at a broader audience as well as the academic community. Regina José Galindo is collaborating with us in the project.
I am also interested in the reception and consumption of Day of the Dead and Frida Kahlo in the UK from 2015 to present times, and how these phenomena have been reincarnated in the UK in the retail industry, fashion, media, and art amongst other areas. I have an article on the subject to be published with Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies in April 2021.
PhD research
2018- Jessica Elizabeth McIvor AHRC/ South West Wales DTP Doctoral Researcher
University of Southampton/ University of Bristol
Women at War: Irish and Spanish Women's Militancy in Visual Culture; Supervisor 1 Name: Scott Soo (Southampton University);; Supervisor 2 Name: James Thompson (Maternity cover for Erika Hanna) (University of Bristol); Supervisor 3 Name: Jane Lavery (Southampton University)
Past postgraduate projects:
PhD co-supervision on Jewish-German Film director (with Professor Tim Bergfelder from Film Studies - University of Southampton) 2006-2011.
MPhil dissertation on Colombian Narrative (with Dr Mark Dinneen)
Phd co-supervision with Mark Dinneen on The literary works of Colombian Fernando Vallejo (2011-2014)
MA dissertation on Latin American female art performers and the representations of the female body
Supervised 10 MA students and 1 MPhil in the area of Latin American literature, painting and film produced by women between 2003-2005
I am working on a research project on the works of women writers and artists from the Spanish speaking world whose works straddle multiple disciplines (literature, art performance, photography, video, art installation, cyberspace). The research I conducted in Mexico City as part of the BA award for my Clavel monograph above will also form the basis of this project. This is a collaborative research project with Dr Sarah Bowskill (University of Swansea) and the intended research outputs include a co-written book and co-edited book, articles, conferences, mobile exhibitions at WSA and CAS online residencies between Lain American and British multimedia artists. This project will be in collaboration with Chapel Arts Studios organisation and artists and WSA. We have received funding from PERU, WSA and CAS to conduct these activities.
Affiliate research groups
The Institute for Language and Culture, MeXsu
Research project(s)
This project will be in collaboration with Chapel Arts Studios organisation and artists and WSA. We have received funding from PERU, WSA and CAS to conduct these activities.
Dr Jane Elizabeth LaveryBuilding 65, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BF, United Kingdom
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