Transnational Textures
XVI Biennial AILASA Conference
May 29-31, 2024
The Australian National University, Canberra
ABOUT US
Get to Know Us
AILASA was established in 1993 with several aims, including:
To promote research into and the teaching of Iberian and Latin American Studies in Australasia;
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to promote the professional development of its members;
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to promote public awareness of and interest in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America;
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to stimulate and encourage interchange between Australasia and the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America; and
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to coordinate and rationalise available resources among member institutions through the interchange of students, teachers and resources.
AILASA 2024 Conference Organising Committee
Bronte Alexander, PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and Sessional Tutor
Bronte Alexander, PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and Sessional Tutor
Thomas Nulley-Valdés
Lecturer, ANU
Thomas Nulley-Valdés, PhD, is co-chair of the 2024 AILASA Conference Organising Committee. He is a Lecturer in Spanish Studies in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (SLLL) at the Australian National University. Thomas is an emerging scholar of World Literature with a focus on Spanish and Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries. His first book, McOndo Revisited, was published with Lexington in 2023.
Fabricio Tocco
Lecturer, ANU
Fabricio Tocco, PhD, is co-chair of the 2024 AILASA Conference Organising Committee. He is a Lecturer Spanish Studies and Convener of Portuguese in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (SLLL) at the Australian National University. His research deals with the intersections of literature, film and history, especially the way popular genres inform and are informed by literary and political theory in Latin American cultural studies. His book, Latin American Detectives Against Power (Lexington, 2022), was awarded the 2022 International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize.
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Robert Mason
Associate Professor, Griffith
Robert Mason, PhD, is president of AILASA. He is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. Robert's research focusses on public histories and heritage connected with violent, colonial and contested pasts. He has a particular focus on the entangled histories and heritage of the Spanish, Portuguese and British in Australia, Asia, and the Americas.