Professor Kirsty Hooper FBA

Summary

Kirsty Hooper is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Warwick University. Educated at state schools in Hertfordshire, she read for a BA in Modern Languages and MSt in Slavonic Studies at Hertford College, and a DPhil in Spanish, Polish, and Galician at The Queen’s College, Oxford.

Kirsty is a linguist and historian specialising in Galician, Spanish, and Anglo-Spanish cultural history since 1800, with particular expertise in Galician Studies, Anglo-Spanish connections, and the history of Hispanic communities in the UK. Grounded in textual, genealogical, and microhistorical methodologies, her work foregrounds peripheralised communities and voices within wider stories of nation, empire, and colonialism. In 2017, her contributions to Galician Studies were recognised by election as a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Galega.

Her books include 'A Stranger in My Own Land: Sofía Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European fin de siecle' (2008); 'Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics' (2011); 'Galician Cultural Studies: Between the Local and the Global' (co-edited with Manuel Puga Moruxa, 2011); 'Mondariz-Vigo-Santiago. A Brief History of Galicia’s Edwardian Tourist Boom' (2013); 'The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession' (2020); 'Modern Literatures in Spain' (co-authored with Helena Buffery, Elena Delgado, Jo Labanyi, and Mari José Olaziregi, 2022); and 'Spanish London: Culture, Commerce, and Community in the 19th-Century City' (forthcoming 2027).