Dr Catherine Leen (BA Trinity College Dublin, MA University of Liverpool, DPhil Trinity College Dublin)Associate Professor
Dr Leen was appointed Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies in 2024, having previously held the positions of Deputy Head of the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Head of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. She has also been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She is currently Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, and Fulbright Ambassador for Trinity College.
She currently teaches courses in Mexican and Chicanx cultures, Latin American literature, and transnational visual cultures at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as the TCD Elective Identities and Ecologies of Latin American and the Caribbean: Past, Present and Future. Her research interests include border studies, Latin American visual cultures, Mexican and Chicanx literature and cinema, migration, and Paraguayan cinema.