Dr Rebecca Ogden
School of Languages and Cultures
Lecturer in Modern Languages, Media and Culture studies
Full contact details
School of Languages and Cultures
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91Ö±²¥
S3 7RA
- Profile
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Dr Rebecca Ogden is lecturer in Modern Languages, Media and Culture studies, with an expertise in Mexico and Cuba and a particular interest in the cultural politics of reproduction and health more broadly.
Her current project, an AHRC-funded Research, Development and Engagement fellowship (2023-2025), focuses on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and young parenthood in Mexico, Cuba and Colombia.
A previous British Academy/Leverhulme funded project focused on the representation of the politics of childbirth and midwifery in contemporary Mexican cultural production. Rebecca coordinates a podcast about the cultural politics of reproduction in Latin America, called .
Another research interest concerns the negotiation of culture, identity and affect in the contexts of tourism and nation branding. She is the co-editor of Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance (2018). Before joining the University of 91Ö±²¥ in September 2023, Rebecca worked at the University of Kent and in universities in Mexico and Argentina. She completed an AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Manchester on the dynamics of affect in contemporary Cuban tourism.
- Qualifications
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MA in Latin American Studies, University of Manchester, 2010
PhD Latin American Studies, University of Manchester, 2015
PGCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education), University of Kent (2018)
- Research interests
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- New media and digital cultural studies
- Reproductive health, justice and politics in Latin American culture, especially teenage parenthood and reproductive health and representations of childbirth, pregnancy and midwifery.
- The intersection of market forces and articulations of national identity, especially in the contexts of tourism and nation branding
- Teaching activities
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In the academic year 2023-24 I will be contributing to:
- MDL500
- MDL600
- MDL405 Migration and its Representations
- MDL622 Research Methods
Current PhD student: Angela Sandoval (CHASE Collaborative Doctoral award with El Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello, Havana) – ‘Digital art and its creators in Cuba: Identity, cultural change, and conceptualisations of revolution’.
I welcome applications for doctoral study in my areas of research expertise.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I currently serve as Ordinary Committee member for the Society of Latin American Studies and I am also member of the following Learned Societies:
- Cuba Research Forum
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)
- Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
- Women in Spanish and Portuguese (WISPS)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018)
- PGCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education), University of Kent (2018)
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