Iona Macintyre

Dr Iona Macintyre is a senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies. After a first degree at the University of Glasgow and completing her PhD at the University of Nottingham, she joined the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Edinburgh in 2007. Her doctoral thesis looked at the woman question in nineteenth-century Argentina.

Her broad research interests are in the writing (including narrative, poetry, and political and historical writing), history, and culture of nineteenth-century Spanish America and Brazil. Within this she works primarily on Argentina, history of the book, gender studies, popular print forms (such as conduct and pamphlet literature), Spanish American independence, and transatlantic relations.

Iona is eager to develop group projects on Latin American topics. She has recently co-translated the novel 'The Adventures of China Iron' by the acclaimed writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.