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Dr. Ciara O'Hagan

Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Ciara O'Hagan

Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)
ARTS BUILDING

 cohagan@tcd.ie

 3531896 4236


Dr O'Hagan joined the Department of Hispanic Studies at TCD in 2009, following a lectureship at Queen's University Belfast. Her research interests include representations of America in Spanish Enlightenment literature, specifically the Enlightenment disputes over the New World and the legitimacy of Spain's American conquest. She has published broadly on a number of major eighteenth-century Spanish writers, including José Cadalso, Juan Pablo Forner, Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, Pedro Montengón and Manuel José Quintana. Her research on eighteenth-century Spanish literature has also spanned multiple genres (poetry, prose and satire). Dr O'Hagan's current research interests focus on the role of Ireland in contemporary Spanish literature, especially the poetry of Antonio Rivero Taravillo (1963-2025). Dr O'Hagan teaches on a wide range of modules covering eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature. She has also supervised PhD and MPhil dissertations. During her time at Trinity Dr O'Hagan has undertaken a number of roles including Head of Department and Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning for the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. She has also served on various committees both at School and College level.
O'Hagan, Ciara, 'Revering Spain's Colonial Past and Colonial Propaganda in the Prologue to Volume 2 of Antonio Ponz's 'Viaje fuera de España', Modern Languages Open, (1), 2022, p12-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
O'Hagan, Ciara, A Menippean Defense of Spain's American Conquest: Linguistic Imperialism in Juan Pablo Forner's 'Exequias de la lengua castellana', Revista Hispanica Moderna, 72, (2), 2020, p189-206-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
O'Hagan, Ciara, Rhapsodic Defence or Enlightened Critique? A Re-reading of Hernán Cortés's Conquest of Mexico in 'Carta IX' of Cadalso's Cartas marruecas, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 94, (1), 2017, p63 - 76, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
O'HAGAN, CIARA, 'Ocios de mi juventud', Review of 'Ocios de mi juventud', by Miguel Angel Lama , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 91, (4), 2015, p619-620 , Review, PUBLISHED
O'Hagan, Ciara, 'Sanitizing Colonial Infection and Redefining Spanish Imperialism in Manuel Jose Quintana's 'Poesias patrioticas' , Dieciocho, 37, (2), 2014, p249 - 279, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Rewriting Spanish Epic Poetry in the Enlightenment Period: Two Competing Interpretations of 'Las naves de Cortes destruidas' in, editor(s)Ann L. Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins , Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America, Abingdon & New York, 2011, pp83 - 105, [O'Hagan, Ciara], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
O'Hagan, Ciara, 'Pedro Montengón's Eusebio: Atoning for Spain's Colonial Abuses in the Eighteenth Century', Dieciocho, 33.1, 2010, p81 - 101, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
O'Hagan, Ciara, 'Rewriting Spanish Epic Poetry in the Enlightenment Period: Two Competing Interpretations of Las naves de Cortés destruidas' , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 86, 2009, p83 - 105, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
'Diatribe and Defence: The Patriotic Manipulation of America in Cadalso's Cartas marruecas' in, editor(s)N. Finnegan and M. Veiga , Reading Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Cork, UCC, 2005, pp51 - 61, [O'Hagan, Ciara], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED