Welcome! My name is Kirsty Hooper and I am a writer, researcher and genealogist based in Warwickshire in the United Kingdom. I have particular expertise in the history of Hispanic communities in the UK and I’m currently finishing up a book on Hispanic London: Culture, Commerce and Community in the Nineteenth-Century City, which was funded thanks to a very generous Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. This blog is a place to try out ideas and share some of the stories I come across in my research.
Published Books:
- The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
- Mondariz-Vigo-Santiago: A Brief History of Galicia’s Edwardian Tourist Boom [FULL TEXT!]. Mondariz: Fundacion Mondariz Balneario, 2013.
- Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: Between the Local and the Global. New York: MLA, 2011. Co-ed. with Manuel Puga Moruxa.
- Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011.
- A Stranger in my Own Land: Sofia Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European fin de siecle. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
Hispanic Britain, or, an Anglo-Spanish Miscellany 