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Dr. Yairen Jerez Columbié

Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)

 YAIREN.JEREZ@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié (BA, MA, PGCTL, PhD) joined the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies in 2021 as Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Intercultural Communication and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications. Before joining TCD, she taught in the Universitat de Girona and University College Cork, where she also led interdisciplinary research at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI) and the Environmental Research Institute. Dr Jerez Columbié received her BA and MA from the Universitat de Girona after studying at the Universidad de La Habana, and obtained her PhD from University College Cork for a dissertation on cultural theories emerging from journalistic, philosophical, artistic and legal texts intertwined with nation-making processes in Latin America and Europe. She brings to TCD her experience in designing and undertaking research and teaching that connects artists, intellectuals, scientists, communities, and policymakers to support equity, diversity and inclusion in knowledge-making processes, international partnerships and the fair public uptake and use of science and technology. Dr Jerez Columbié welcomes PhD and Masters proposals in any area of twenty-first, twentieth and nineteenth century Latin American and Caribbean Studies, as well as Transatlantic Hispanic and Catalan Studies. She is interested in supervising and co-supervising interdisciplinary projects at the intersections between Cultural and Media Studies, New World Philosophies and Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities.
Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer Barry , Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 1 - 257pp, Book, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals in, editor(s)Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer, Barry , Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2022, pp183 - 203, [Jerez Columbié, Yairen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Introduction: Can the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and Agenda 2030 Provide a Path Towards Societal Resilience? in, editor(s)Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer, Barry , Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas, 2022, pp1 - 19, [Flood, Stephen, Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Le Tissier, Martin, O'Dwyer, Barry], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Language, Performance, Memory and Transculturation in the Jocs Florals Catalans of Cuba, Journal of Catalans Studies, 1, (23), 2022, p55 - 81, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History, 1st, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2021, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, People of the Mangrove: A lens into socioecological interactions in the Ecuadorian Black Pacific, eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021, p74 - 94, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
The Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research Report Series This publication can be quoted as: Máñez Costa, M.; Oen, A.M.P.; Neset, T.-S.; Celliers, L.; Suhari, M; Huang-Lachmann, J-T.; Pimentel, R.; Blair, B.; Jeuring, J.; Rodriguez-Camino, E.; Photiadou, C.; Jerez Columbié, Y.; Gao, C.; Tudose, N.-C.; Cheval, S., Votsis, A.; West, J.; Lee, K.; Shaffrey, L.C.; Auer, C.; Hoff, H.; Menke, I.; Walton, P.; Schuck-Zöller, S. , Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects (2017-2021), CSPR Report Series, No 2021:2, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, 2021, p1 - 56, Notes: [Reflecting on the experiences of 16 of the 26 projects funded under ERA4CS, this guide aims to define and recommend good practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-production of climate services to researchers, users, funding agencies, and private sector service providers. Drawing on responses from ERA4CS project teams to a questionnaire and interviews, this guide maps the diversity of methods for stakeholder identification, involvement, and engagement. It also conducts an analysis of methods, tools, and mechanisms for engagement as well as evaluation of co-production processes.], Report, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Sketches of Black People by White Catalan-Cuban Intellectuals: Transculturation in Fernando Ortiz's and Jaume Valls's Afrocubanismo in 1920s Havana, Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal, 16, (2), 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Jerez Columbié, Yairen and Morrissey, John, Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2020, p1--20 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Prudenci Bertrana, periodista a Barcelona, escriptor-periodista a L'Havana (1919-20) (Prudenci Bertrana, journalist in Barcelona, journalist-writer in Havana (1919-20)), Journal of Catalan Studies, 2, (21), 2019, p219--237 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Fósiles de Lluvia, Betania, 2022, 1 - 75pp, Notes: [TCD Association and Trust provided the publication fees of the book of eco-poetry titled Fósiles de lluvia [Fossil raindrops], published on the 20th of May 2022 by publisher Betania. This includes a print edition of 200 copies and an E-book. Established in Madrid, Spain, since 1987, Betania specialises in poetry with a focus on Latin American authors. It has published over 500 books, including canonical poets such as José Martí, Dulce María Loynaz, Reinaldo Arenas and Gastón Baquero, as well as novel voices. ], Book, PUBLISHED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, 'Cuatro poemas de Yairen Jerez Columbié', New York, Revista Temporales, MFA de Escritura Creativa en Español de New York University, 2022, -, Poetry, PUBLISHED
Jerez Columbie, Yairen, 'Eclipse Anular', Altavoz Cultural, 2022, -, Poetry, PUBLISHED
Jerez Columbie, Yairen, 'Keloid & Over a Map of the Atlantic', Anthropocene, 2022, -, Poetry, PUBLISHED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Green Hispanisms and the decolonisation of environmental studies, Green Hispanisms Conference, Swansea University, 7 July 2021, 2021, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen; Hogan, Padraig; Nyhan, Marguerite; O'Dwyer, Barry, Climate empowerment and participation in Ireland: lessons learned from the National Dialogue on Climate Action, Environ 2021, University College Cork, edited by 17 June 2021 , 2021, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Marvelous real ecologies: uses of coral reefs in written representations of Caribbean socioecological systems, Planet Ocean Interdisciplinary Workshop, Dublin City University, 21 September 2019, 2019, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Facing climate change in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Ireland through hurricane culture, Society of Irish and Latin American Studies Conference 2019 Comparisons, Conflicts, and Connections: Ireland and Latin America in the Past, Present, and Future, Trinity College Dublin, 23-26 April 2019, 2019, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Transcultural realities versus nationalist narratives in the activism of the Catalanists of Havana and the construction of the idea of Cubaness (1908-1959), Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) Seminar, University College Cork, 29 November, 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Jerez Columbié, Yairen, Fernando Ortiz's counterpoint: between the idea of rhizomatic transcultural identities and narratives of national identities, Conference Colóquio Internacional Os Estudos Ibéricos a Partir da Periferia, Universidade de Lisboa, 9 March 2018, 2018, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Environmental Protection Agency, project 'Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Longitudinal Analysis for Informing Participatory Frameworks in the NDCA' (C-CHANGE) (2020-2021) (With Dr Marguerite Nyhan and Dr Barry O'Dwyer) (€100,000) 2019
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund, Trinity College Dublin (€1,500) January 2022
Trinity Association and Trust (€1,500) March 2022

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié works at the intersection between Cultural Studies, Communication and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. Her publications investigate intercultural communication, fluid identities, cultural translation, decolonial ecologies and eco-criticism in diverse countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Catalonia and Ireland. She led interdisciplinary research at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI) to inform Irish and European environmental policies. Her research on the National Dialogue on Climate Action in Ireland will inform Ireland's strategy for Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), as the result of the Environmental Protection Agency-funded project Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Longitudinal Analysis for Informing Participatory Frameworks in the NDCA (C-CHANGE) (2020-21). Her current research focuses on the role of Latin American and Caribbean epistemologies in communicating climate change and shaping global responses to environmental challenges. Dr Jerez Columbié brings to TCD her experience in designing and undertaking research that connects artists, intellectuals, scientists, communities and policymakers to support equity, diversity and inclusion in knowledge-making processes, international partnerships and the fair public uptake and use of science and technology. Her research interests include although are not limited to: Intercultural Communication; Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism; Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies; Ecofeminism; Critical Theory and New World Philosophies; Postcolonial Intellectual History; Migration, Diaspora and Exile; Creative Nonfiction and Ecopoetry.