Laugh in Your Bones
A hispanist and writer, a lecturer and a researcher ponder over the boundaries of love and humour, from Valle-Inclán to Forges via Cuban music and cultural transfers.
Carmen Sanjulián García (Spain, 1966) is a Business Spanish lecturer at the Dublin Business School and Trinity College Dublin. Her research field is focus in the relationship between language, culture and identity. She considers the use of humour as an essential pedagogic tool in teaching. She has offered conferences in a number of European forums.
Bruce Swansey (Mexico, 1955) has a PhD in Literature from Trinity College Dublin and the Colegio de México. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Edificio La Princesa (2014), he had written theatre reviews, literary essays, the short stories collection Prosas para el boudoir (1980), the book of poems Humpty Dumpty (1991) and other shorts stories published in a variety of magazines.
Yairen Jerez Columbié (Cuba, 1985) is a lecturer at University College Cork. She studied journalism and cultural studies and has worked as a journalist and researcher in several universities. She is a researcher of cultural exchanges, minorities’ identity and environmental humanities which she analyses through poetry, journalism, music and other cultural expressions with a special focus on the Caribbean region.
