Kate M Quinn

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

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.

I am co-founder of the International Crime Genre Research Network (founded 2005) 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.