Kate M Quinn

I have published widely on Chilean crime fiction, with a focus on politics, history, memory and human rights. I am currently working on women crime writers and issues of gender equality.

My main research-led teaching interests are in Latin American, particularly Chilean, narrative and film, and also comparative literature and culture, particularly the crime genre. I coordinate the Final Year BA Spanish and am co-Director of the Masters in International Contemporary Literature and Media.

On the BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies, I teach first year Mundo Hispano to Beginner and Intermediate students, second year Modern Spanish-Language Drama, and Final Year Human Rights and Literature, as well as language. In the Global Languages programme, I teach on Memory, Memorialisation and Representations of Conflict in Final Year. I teach on the ICLM MA on the module Contemporary Literary Genres.

I am Head of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University of Galway (since January 2023). Previously I served as Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures from 2014-2020.

I am co-founder of the International Crime Genre Research Network (founded in Galway in 2005). Information on current and past conferences can be found at:  International Crime Genre Research Network – The ICGRN is a scholarly association for academics working on the crime genre in all its forms across the globe.

PhD 1997 QUB The Development of the Crime Genre in ChileBA 1992 QUB Joint Degree in French and Spanish