Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Katerina García, Acercamiento a un poema medieval desde la investigación artística: La Cantiga I de Martín Codax, XIV Congreso da Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos. Horizontes dos estudos galegos e/na Lusofonía, Braga, Portugal, 17 to 20 April 2024, 2024
Katerina García, 'A la nanita, nana', OWLET, Lullabies from the World, Ireland, Early Childhood Ireland, 2024, -
Katerina García, Hacia una nueva interpretación de la Cantiga I de Martín Codax, en el contexto del Camino na Sáile, Congreso Internacional de la Lengua, Literatura e Historia del Mar y de la Navegación, Madrid, 7 to 10 May 2024, 2024
Katerina García, Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo. A visual poem by Jaro Waldeck, IV North American Symposium on Galician Studies, Lubbock, TX, (USA), 19-22 October 2023, 2023
Katerina Garcia, Performance as Journey to Knowledge: The 'Cantiga I' by Martín Codax, From Folklore to World Music: New Ways to Old Music, 2023, p133 - 146
Katerina Garcia, Review of Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sepharad and the The Tropes of Exceptionalism, by Ross Brann , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2022
Katerina García, "On the willows there we hung up our lyres: Reflections on the role of geography and existential space in the songs of the Irish and Sephardic diaspora", Proceedings of the International Colloquy in Ethnomusicology, From Folklore to World Music: Music and Space, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 28-29 July 2020, edited by Krekovicova, E. and Uhlikova, L. , Municipal Culture Centre, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 2020, pp117 - 146
Katerina García, "Between the waves and the sea strand: Sacred and profane themes in a Sephardic wedding song" , Proceedings of the International Colloquy in Ethnomusicology, From Folklore to World Music: Music and Spirituality, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 30-31 July 2019, edited by Pribylova, L. and Uhlikova, L. , 13, Municipal Culture Centre, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 2019, pp117 - 138
Al tyempo del kuechko dulse: History, Language and Identity in Enrique Saporta y Beja's account of Jewish life in Salonika in, editor(s)Bayó Belenguer S., Rooney N. , Pulling Together or Pulling Apart? Perspectives on Nationhood, Identity and Belonging in Europe, Peter Lang, 2019, pp119 - 146, [Katerina Garcia]
Katerina Garcia, Katerina Garcia, Salamander: Como la Rosa , Review of Como la Rosa, by Salamander , Yearbook for Traditional Music, 51, 2019, p294-295
Katerina Garcia, Singing the Memory of Sepharad: Traditional Sephardic Song and its Interpretation, Ethnomusicology Ireland , (5), 2017, p172 - 191
Katerina Garcia, La alegría de Jako: A Judeo-Spanish song as reflection of linguistic and cultural syncretism, Studies in Arts and Humanities, 3, (2), 2017, p29 - 38
Kon Sira, 'Kon Sira: Songs from the Sephardic Tradition', Katerina Garcia, Prague, Czech Republic, Good Day Records, 2013, -
, Notes on the retention of word-initial f- in the Judeo-Spanish of Thessaloniki, Selected Papers from the Fifteenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies , The British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, University of London, 29-31 July 2008, edited by Hilary Pomeroy, Christopher J. Pountain and Elena Romero , (0902238760, 97809022), London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London., 2012
Katerina Garcia, Notas sobre la formación de palabras en el judeoespañol de Salónica, Romanistica Pragensia, (18), 2009, p65 - 80
Notas sobre el plano fónico de la variante judeoespañola de Tesalónica in, editor(s)Petr Čermák , Las lenguas románicas: su unidad y diversidad, Prague, Czech Republic, Charles University, Prague, 2005, [Katerina Garcia]
Katerina Garcia, "Judeo paněl tina - vznik a vývoj", [Judeo-Spanish - origins and evolution], Časopis pro Moderní Filologii [Revue for Modern Philology], 86, (1), 2004
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Jaro Waldeck, Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí, 'Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo', 2023, -
Katerina Garcia, Presentation of the project "Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo", irish Itinerary 2023 (EFACIS): Elements of Aesthetics in Constructing Form and Identity, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 14th-15th March 2023, 2023
Katerina García, "Sephardic Song and the Middle Ages", "Atelier Franco-Irlandais", Trinity Long Room Hub, 29 March 2022, 2022
Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí, '"Live from Marlay House"', EFACIS Conference, Prague 2021, Dublin, EFACIS, 2021, -
Katerina García, Izabella Goldstein, 'On the Fringes of Disapora: The Songs of the Unwanted', Players Theatre, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, 2019, -
Katerina García, '"From Toledo to Salonika: A Mediterranean Journey"', Pearse Museum, Dublin 16, Office of Public Works, 2019, -
Katerina Garcia, Sefarad a jeho odrazy v současné interpretaci tradiční sefardské písně [Reflections of Sepharad in the contemporary interpretation of traditional Sephardic song] , Mezinárodní kolokvium zaměřené na lidovou, folkovou, entnickou hudbu a world music [International colloquium on traditional, folk, ethnic and world music], Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 25-26 July 2017, 2017
Katerina Garcia, Singing the Memory of Sepharad: Traditional Sephardic Song and its Interpretation, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin., 27-28th Feb 2016, 2016
Katerina Garcia, 'No ay en lashon a-kodesh estas palavras': Language and Memory in two Judeo-Spanish novels , Hispanic Studies Research Seminar , University College Cork, 5 March , 2016, Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC
Katerina Garcia, The language of the Sephardic Diaspora through a fictional lens: Enrique Saporta y Beja's novelistic account of Jewish life in Salonika , Annual AGHBI Conference, University of Oxford, 25-27 March 2013, 2013
Katerina Garcia, Sephardic Thessaloniki: Five centuries of Judeo-Spanish Language and Culture, research Seminar of the Department of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, UCD, UCD, Dublin, 04/03, 2008, Department of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
Katerina Garcia, Diachronic change in the Judeo-Spanish linguistic variety of Thessaloniki, 15th British Conference oj Judeo-Spanish Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London, 29-31/07, 2008
Katerina Garcia, Future Perspectives for Judeo-Spanish in Thessaloniki and Perspectives for its Revitalisation, Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Sheffield, UK, 26/03, 2008
Katerina Garcia, Field research within the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, Conference of Hispanists of the Czech Republic, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 13/09/2005, 2005
Katerina Garcia, Judeo-Spanish, Semana de cultura española en la Universidad Palacky de Olomouc, Rep. Checa, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 12/05, 2004, Department of Hispanic Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc
Research Expertise
Description
My principal area of academic expertise is Linguistics of Judeo-Spanish, the linguistic variety spoken within (mainly) the Sephardic diaspora of the Balkan Peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean. In recent years, I have expanded the focus of my research to incorporate the broader historical and socio-cultural realities inherent to Judeo-Spanish language use, with particular attention to the novel En torno de la Torre blanca by Sephardic author Enrique Saporta y Beja (Paris, 1982), set in the Sephardic Jewish community of Salonika at the turn of the 19/20th centuries, one of the most important Sephardic memory narratives. My research of this text currently focuses on the traditional song lyrics reproduced by the author to represent the life-cycle celebrations of the Jewish Community of Salonika. I highlight the role of secular song as not only cultural artefact of celebration and commemoration, but ultimately as a place of memory and expression of the Sephardic community's diasporic identity. I am particularly interested in representations of Sepharad as a cultural and historical construct in contemporary modes of song interpretation. More broadly, I am interested in exploring the roles of music and song as spaces for the expression of individual and collective identity and memory. To this effect, I have embarked on a cross-disciplinary project with renowned Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist Liam Ó Maonlaí. This project, supported by the 2023 FAHSS Bursary Award, is entitled Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo, and explores the possibilities of interpretation of the Galician "cantigas d'amigo" by trovador Martín Codax (13th c) in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-media context. The project has led to outcomes in the form of presentations at international conferences, a paper and two upcoming publications. All the above mentioned research themes converge in my ongoing project centered on song and its relationship with memory and identity construction.Recognition
Representations
Literature Ireland, Translations reviewer
Bulletin of Spanish Studies - external peer reviewer
AlterNative, An International Journal for Indigenous Peoples (Sage Journals). A Journal or the M"ori Centre for Research Excellence (NZ) - external peer reviewer
Judeo-Spanish proficiency assessment in Ireland (Spanish Nationality for Sephardim under Law 12/2015)
Review board member : Romanistica Pragensia (Journal in Romance Philology), Charles University Press.
Cuileann Beo, Gaelscoil Lios na nÓg. Member of cultural committee
Czech School Dublin. Cultural and Linguistic advisor, Children's choir leader.
John Moriarty Festival. Musical performance as part of a lecture series.
"A Musical Tapestry" Curation and performance for Mother Tongues Festival 2022. (Repertoire selected and commented with emphasis on multilingualism.)
Performance at Insituto Cervantes, Culture Night
A Musical Voyage. LexIcon Dún Laoghaire. Recital.
"Variación diatópica y functional del judeoespañol". Master Universitario Internacional de Lengua Española y Lingüística, Universidad de Oviedo. Postgraduate seminar in Judeo-Spanish Linguistics.
Ireland and the Spanish Republic Conference. Performance as part of public lecture by Dr Soledad Fox Maura
Judeo-Spanish, Jewish Languages Exhibition Launch. Discussion Round Table
Sephardic song recital. Department of Hispanic Studies, University College Cork
Launch of Cyphers 78: A Celebration of Poetry from the Hispanic World. Instituto Cervantes, Dublin
Lingua + Musica: A Celebration of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. European Day of Languages 2013
Judeo-Spanish, the language of the Sephardim in the Balkans. The Jewish Museum in Prague, Public Lecture.
Awards and Honours
PhD Scholarship, Charles University, Prague
Katerina Krausova Prize for best M.A. Dissertation in Hispanic Studies
Memberships
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
International Council for Traditional Music Ireland