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Dr. Katerina Garcia

Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)
ARTS BUILDING

 kgarcia@tcd.ie

 3531896 1526


Representations

Details Date
Judeo-Spanish proficiency assessment in Ireland (Spanish Nationality for Sephardim under Law 12/2015) 2016
Review board member : Romanistica Pragensia (Journal in Romance Philology), Charles University Press. 2015 - present
"A Musical Tapestry" Curation and performance for Mother Tongues Festival 2022. (Repertoire selected and commented with emphasis on multilingualism.) 26 February 2022
"Live from Marlay House: Video performance with Liam Ó Maonlaí" EFACIS 2021 Conference 4 September 2021
Performance at Insituto Cervantes, Culture Night 20 September 2019
A Musical Voyage. LexIcon Dún Laoghaire. Recital. 16 May 2017
"Variación diatópica y functional del judeoespañol". Master Universitario Internacional de Lengua Española y Lingüística, Universidad de Oviedo. Postgraduate seminar in Judeo-Spanish Linguistics. 13-15 March 2017
Ireland and the Spanish Republic Conference. Performance as part of public lecture by Dr Soledad Fox Maura 19 October 2016
Sephardic song recital. Department of Hispanic Studies, University College Cork 5 March 2016
Judeo-Spanish, Jewish Languages Exhibition Launch. Discussion Round Table 4 September 2016
Launch of Cyphers 78: A Celebration of Poetry from the Hispanic World. Instituto Cervantes, Dublin 17 November 2014
Lingua + Musica: A Celebration of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. European Day of Languages 2013 17 October 2013
Judeo-Spanish, the language of the Sephardim in the Balkans. The Jewish Museum in Prague, Public Lecture. 14 April 2012

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Catalan Fluent Fluent Fluent
Czech Fluent Fluent Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Medium Medium
Irish Basic Basic Basic
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland 2008 present
International Council for Traditional Music Ireland 30 November 2022 present
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, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
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, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Katerina García, 'A la nanita, nana', OWLET, Lullabies from the World, Ireland, Early Childhood Ireland, 2024, -, Notes: [The project represents a springboard to a broader musical collaboration with professional musicians and primary educators in a Dublin Gaelscoil, which will result in a recording of multi-lingual song repertoire performed by primary school pupils. The recording will serve to highlight the contribution of Gaelscoileanna to the building of a diverse and plural Irish society.], Music Production, PUBLISHED
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, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Katerina Garcia, Review of Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sepharad and the The Tropes of Exceptionalism, by Ross Brann , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2022, Review, IN_PRESS
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, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
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], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Katerina Garcia, Katerina Garcia, Salamander: Como la Rosa , Review of Como la Rosa, by Salamander , Yearbook for Traditional Music, 51, 2019, p294-295 , Review, PUBLISHED
  

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Jaro Waldeck, Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí, 'Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo', 2023, -, Film production, RELEASED
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, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Katerina García, "Sephardic Song and the Middle Ages", "Atelier Franco-Irlandais", Trinity Long Room Hub, 29 March 2022, 2022, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí, '"Live from Marlay House"', EFACIS Conference, Prague 2021, Dublin, EFACIS, 2021, -, Music Production, PUBLISHED
Katerina García, Izabella Goldstein, 'On the Fringes of Disapora: The Songs of the Unwanted', Players Theatre, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, 2019, -, Music Production, PERFORMED
Katerina García, '"From Toledo to Salonika: A Mediterranean Journey"', Pearse Museum, Dublin 16, Office of Public Works, 2019, -, Music Production, PERFORMED
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, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Katerina Garcia, Singing the Memory of Sepharad: Traditional Sephardic Song and its Interpretation, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin., 27-28th Feb 2016, 2016, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
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, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
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, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Katerina Krausova Prize for best M.A. Dissertation in Hispanic Studies 2002
PhD Studentship, Charles University, Prague 2002

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

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, 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.