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• Relationship between facts and emotions in the narratives of violent and catastrophic events;
• Power distribution in narratives of violent events;
• Conflict prevention through the analysis of the discourse of two conflicting sides;
• Discursive mediation during the recovery period following natural disasters in the coastal Caribbean;
• Trust, power and control;
• Collaborative enquiry between sciences and humanities;
• Identity theory in the context of social networks;
• Identity appropriation through discourse control.

Books

The Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico 1968, and the Emotional Triangle of Anger, Grief and Shame: Discourses of Truth(s), Cardiff: Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Wales Press, 2018.

Edited Volumes

• Interface between Literature and Science: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
• A World in Words, a Life in Texts: Revisiting Latin American Cultural Heritage, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.
• (Re)Collecting the Past: History and Collective Memory in Latin American Narrative, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
• A World Torn Apart: Representation of Violence in Latin American Narrative, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.

Book Chapters

• ‘“2 October Is Not Forgottenâ€�: Tlatelolco 1968 Massacre and Social Memory Frameworks’, in Memory and Postcolonial Studies: Synergies and New Directions, ed. Dirk Göttsche, Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2019.
• ‘Strings, Branes and Hidden Texts in Obsesivos días circulares (1969) by Gustavo Sainz’, in Interface between Literature and Science: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts, ed. Victoria Carpenter, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
• Victoria Carpenter and Paul Halpern, ‘Out of the Darkness into the Darkness: Time Travel in Ernesto Sábato’s El túnel and Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear’, in Interface between Literature and Science: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts, ed. Victoria Carpenter, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
• ‘Power Tug of War: Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Text Control in Gustavo Sainz’s Obsesivos días circulares (1969)’, in Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures, ed. Amit Thakkar and Chris Harris, London: Routledge, 2015.
• ‘Temporal Permutations in Octavio Paz’s “Piedra de solâ€�’, in A World in Words, a Life in Texts: Revisiting Latin American Cultural Heritage, ed. Victoria Carpenter, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.
• ‘When Was Tomorrow? Manipulation of Time and Memory in the Works of Mexican Onda’, in (Re)Collecting the Past: History and Collective Memory in Latin American Literature, ed. Victoria Carpenter, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
• ‘“La sangre en el cementoâ€�: Violence, Fantasy and Myth in the Poetic Accounts of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre’, in A World Torn Apart: Representations of Violence in Latin American Narrative, ed. Victoria Carpenter, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.

Refereed Journal Articles – Single Authorship

• ‘Slinging It Sideways after the Fact: Responses to the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (submitted in September 2024; under review).
• ‘The Bard’s (a) Shadow over Sur: Shakespearean Criticism in Argentina in the 1960s’, Multicultural Shakespeare (submitted in June 2024; under review).
• ‘Crossing Power Borders in a Tight Silk Suit: Loci of Power in Pell-mell by Gustavo Sainz’, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (accepted for publication in March 2023; in print).
• ‘When a Habit Meets a Habit at the City Dump: Persistence and Adaptability of Habit in Única mirando al mar by Fernando Contreras Castro’, Forum for Modern Language Studies 59:2 (2023), 183-201, .
• ‘Damn the Suit and the Tailor Who Made It: Power Struggle between the Narrator and the Editor in Nuevas coplas y cantares del temible bardo Eudomóndaro Higuera alias el Tuerto’, Hispanic Review, 91.3 (2023), pp. 457-74, DOI: .
• ‘Dancing in a Hurricane: State and Public Responses to Hurricane Gilbert in Jamaica’, Caribbean Quarterly, 68:1 (2022), 44-66, DOI: .
• ‘Between the Stone and the Mirror: Tlatelolco 1968 Massacre and Poetic Debates on the History of Violence’, Chasqui, 47.2 (2018), pp. 86-99.
• ‘“La Plaza era una trampaâ€�: Emotional Violence of Tlatelolco 1968 in Luis Spota’s La Plaza’, Confluencia, 33.2 (2018), pp. 40-52.
• ‘“Y el olor de la sangre manchaba el aireâ€�: Tlatelolco 1521 and 1968 in José Emilio Pacheco’s “Lectura de los ‘Cantares Mexicanosâ€�’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 95.4 (2018), pp. 451-74.
• ‘“You Want the Truth? You Can’t Handle the Truthâ€�: Poetic Representations of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre’, Journal of Latin American Research, 21:1 (2015), pp. 35-49.
• ‘Power Tug of War: Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Text Control in Gustavo Sainz’s Obsesivos días circulares (1969)’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 20:1 (2014), pp. 31-49.
• ‘Realidades en lucha abierta: el conflicto entre la realidad objetiva y el descubrimiento científico en la ciencia-ficción mexicana’, Revista Iberoamericana, 78:238-239 (2012), pp. 165-179.
• ‘Erasing Male Characters from Ã�lbum de familia by Rosario Castellanos’, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 21:2 (2010), pp. 61-76.
• ‘Under My (Editorial) Thumb: Hegemonic Masculinity and Text Ownership in the Works of Mexican Onda’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 87:6 (2010), pp. 667-83.
• ‘“Me cae que no me entiendesâ€�: Multi-language Text in the Mexican Onda’, Romance Studies, 27:3 (2009), pp. 180-91.
• ‘Transitory Literature or “Brave New Textâ€�: A Comparative Analysis of José Agustín’s Works’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 84:2 (2007), pp. 213-26.
• ‘Tlatelolco 1968 in Contemporary Mexican Literature’ (special section), Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24:4 (2005).
• ‘The Echo of Tlatelolco in Contemporary Mexican Protest Poetry’ Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24:4 (2005), pp. 496-512.
• ‘From Yellow to Red to Black: Tantric Reading of “Blancoâ€� by Octavio Paz’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21:4 (2002), pp. 527-44.
• ‘Dream-sex and Time Travel: The Subject of “Piedra de solâ€� by Octavio Paz’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow), LXXVIII (2001), pp. 493-513. This article has been chosen to appear in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, vol. 211.

Refereed Journal Articles – Joint Authorship

• Victoria Carpenter and Lakhbir Singh, ‘Stages of Recovery after Natural Disasters’, Geoforum (under review).
• Victoria Carpenter and Lakhbir Singh, ‘The Role of Social Actors in Recovery after Natural Disasters: A Case Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Jamaica’, Geoforum (under review).
• Victoria Carpenter and Paul Halpern, ‘A Bridge between Worlds: Parallel Universes and the Observer in “The Celestial Plotâ€�’, Kronoscope, 19 (2019), pp. 111-29.
• Reza Montasari, Richard Hill, Victoria Carpenter and Farshad Montaseri, ‘Digital Forensic Investigation of Social Media, Acquisition and Analysis of Digital Evidence’, International Journal of Strategic Engineering 2:1 (2019), pp. 52-60.
• Reza Montasari, Victoria Carpenter and Richard Hill, ‘A Road Map for Digital Forensics Research: A Novel Approach for Establishing the Design Science Research Process in Digital Forensics’, International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 11:2 (2019), pp. 194-224.
• Nan Jiang and Victoria Carpenter, ‘A Case Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Emerging Challenges and Reflections on Internationalization of Higher Education’, International Education Studies, 7:9 (2014), pp. 50-56.
• Nan Jiang and Victoria Carpenter, ‘A Case Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Issues of Strategy Implementation in Internationalization of Higher Education’, International Journal of Educational Management, 27:1 (2013), pp. 4-18.
• Nan Jiang and Victoria Carpenter, ‘Faculty-Specific Factors of Degree of HE Internationalization: An Evaluation of Four Faculties of a UK Post-1992 Â鶹´«Ã½AV’, International Journal of Educational Management, 27:3 (2013), pp. 242-59.
• Dave Lees and Victoria Carpenter, ‘A Qualitative Assessment of Providing Quality Electronically Mediated Feedback for Students in Higher Education’, International Journal of Learning Technology, 7:1 (2012), pp. 95-110.
• Victoria Carpenter and Paul Halpern, ‘Quantum Mechanics and Literature: An Analysis of El túnel by Ernesto Sábato’, The Ometeca Journal, 17 (2012), pp.167-87.
• Nan Jiang and Victoria Carpenter, ‘Market Entry Dynamic Framework for Higher Education Internationalisation’, Journal of International Education in Business, 4:2 (2011), pp. 141-58.

Committees of Academic Societies

• 2012 - present Latin American Literary Studies Association – Founding President;
• 2011 - 2013 Society for Latin American Studies – ordinary committee member;
• 2007 - 2009 Society for Latin American Studies – ordinary committee member;
• 2005 - 2007 Society for Latin American Studies – Vice President;
• 2001 - 2005 Society for Latin American Studies – Secretary (two terms);
• 1999 - 2001 Society for Latin American Studies – President of Postgraduates in Latin American Studies, SLAS Committee Postgraduate representative.

Editorship

• Year's Work in Modern Language Studies - Section editor for Romance Languages: Spanish, Spanish-American, Catalan

Reviewer roles

• Brill Rodopi Publishing House;
• Bulletin of Hispanic Studies;
• Bulletin of Latin American Research;
• Bulletin of Spanish Studies;
• International Journal of Educational Management;
• Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies;
• Letras Hispanas;
• Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.

• ‘The Bard’s (a) Shadow over Sur: Shakespearean Criticism in Argentina in the 1960s’, International Conference ‘The International Circulation and Translation of Shakespeare Criticism’, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2023.
• ‘Out of the Massacre into the Hurricane’, keynote presentation at the Annual PGR Student Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV, 2019.
• ‘Shoes That Nobody Wore: Tlatelolco 1968 Massacre’, York Festival of Ideas, 2016.
• ‘Can You Handle the Truth?’, YorNight 2015: European Researchers’ Night, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of York, 2015.
• ‘Lost in the Garden of Forking Paths’ (presented with Paul Halpern, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Science in Philadelphia), York Festival of Ideas, 2015.
• ‘Checking out of the Hexagon: Quantum Mechanics in Jorge Luis Borges’ “La biblioteca de Babelâ€�’, LONCON3: The 72^nd World Science Fiction Convention, London, 2014.
• ‘Last Man Standing: Crossing the Borders of Male Power Struggle in Gustavo Sainz’s Obsesivos días circulares (1969)’, JISLAC Seminar ‘Border Masculinities’, 2014.
• ‘A Dark and Lonely Tunnel: Fragmented Narrative in El Túnel by Ernesto Sábato’, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Sheffield Hispanic Research Seminar, 2014.
• ‘Finally, the Whole Truth? Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Approaches to the Representation of Violent Events in Latin American History’, Keynote presentation, New Horizons Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Derby, 2012.
• ‘Power Tug of War: Hegemonic and Posthegemonic Text Control in Gustavo Sainz’s Obsesivos días circulares (1969)’, JISLAC Seminar ‘Masculinities and Violence in Latin American Cultures’, December 2010.
• ‘Re-member Them: Destruction of Memory as a Means of Re-creating the Narrative in the Works of Mexican Onda’, Institute of Latin American Studies, Liverpool, 2006.

• ‘Displacing Emotions in Responses to the Tlatelolco 1968 Massacre’, Latin American Literary Studies Conference, 2024.
• ‘Slinging It Sideways after the Fact: Responses to the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre’, Understanding Offence Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Durham, 2024.
• ‘Word Twisters: Appropriation of the State Discourse by Public Disaster Narratives’, Midwest Modern Languages Association, Minneapolis, USA, 2022.
• ‘You’re Not in This Alone: Recovery Narratives after Hurricane Mitch’, Deconstructing Disaster, Rethinking Relief Conference, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, IMLR, 2022.
• ‘King Creole Does Mariachi: Manipulation of Anglophone Popular Culture in the Works of the Mexican Onda’, Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, ISCTE, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Institute of Lisbon, 2021.
• ‘Crossing Power Borders in a Tight Leather Suit: Loci of Power in A troche y moche by Gustavo Sainz’, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Conference, UCD, 2021.
• ‘When a Habit Meets a Habit at the City Dump: Resilience of Habit in Única mirando al mar by Fernando Contreras Castro’, Midwest Modern Languages Association Conference, Milwaukee, USA, 2021.
• ‘Tell It Like It Is: (Mis)Reading Press Coverage of the Tlatelolco 1968 Massacre’, 2016 MHRA Conference ‘Have you Heard…? Navigating the Interstices Between Public and Private Knowledge’, IMLR, London, 2016.
• “‘2 October Is Not Forgottenâ€�: Tlatelolco 1968 Massacre and Social Memory Frameworks’, Memory and Postcolonial Studies Symposium, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Nottingham, 2016.
• ‘“Y el olor de la sangre manchaba el aireâ€�: Tlatelolco 1521 and 1968 in José Emilio Pacheco’s “Lectura de los “Cantares Mexicanosâ€�’, Latin American Literary Studies Association Annual Conference, York St John Â鶹´«Ã½AV, 2015.
• ‘Carajo, qué soledad’: Ironic Loneliness in René Avilés Fabila’s El gran solitario de palacio’, Latin American Literary Studies Association Annual Conference, Derby, 2014.
• ‘Tunneling out of Solitude: Temporal Changes in Ernesto Sábato’s El túnel’, Latin American Literary Studies Association Inaugural Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Derby, 2013.
• ‘Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Multiple Narrative Lines in El túnel by Ernesto Sábato’, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Oxford, 2013.
• ‘A Dark and Lonely Tunnel’: Time Travel in El túnel (1948) by Ernesto Sábato’, British Society for Literature and Science Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Cardiff, 2013.
• ‘Nothing but the Truth, Take Two: The Mechanisms of Creating a Collective Memory in the Tlatelolco 1968 Discourse’, Society for Latin American Studies Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½AV of Sheffield, 2012.