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Dr. Maria Medina

Assistant Professor (School Office Language Lit & Cult Stud)
Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)
      
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Dr. Maria Medina

Assistant Professor (School Office Language Lit & Cult Stud)

 mmedina@tcd.ie

 

Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)


Dr María Medina joined Trinity College Dublin as Teaching Fellow working with the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications and the Department of Hispanic Studies in 2024. In 2025, she was appointed Assistant Professor in Intercultural Communication and Latin American Studies, and currently also serves as Deputy Director of Global Engagement for the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. Her work brings together research, teaching, and international engagement, with a particular focus on diaspora, migration, and transatlantic cultural relations between Ireland and Latin America. María holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Maynooth University and is the author of Irish Narratives in Argentina: Diaspora, Memory, and Identity, scheduled for publication in April 2026. Alongside her research, María teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Spanish, Latin American literature and culture, and applied intercultural communication. She has a strong interest in inclusive curriculum design, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and education-industry engagement, and actively contributes to initiatives that support equity, diversity, and global citizenship in higher education.
  Argentina   Cultural Identity   interdisciplinary collaboration   Latin American Studies   Literary Criticism   Migration and Literature
Medina, María, Irish Narratives in Argentina: Diaspora, Memory, and Identity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026, Book, IN_PRESS
Medina, María, Fuana, Andrea, Death, Silence, and Belonging: Rethinking the Irish Diaspora from Argentina, Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, (Spring/Summer 2), 2026, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
Medina, María, El periódico The Southern Cross y la construcción de puentes digitales: acceso, colaboración e investigación interdisciplinaria en el marco de su 150 aniversario (1875-2025), The Turns of the Centuries: Irish and Latin American Literature and Culture, International Symposium, UNAM, Mexico City, 17-19September 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Irish Diasporic Narratives and the Call for New Argentine Literature. Sarmiento, Hernández, Bulfin? in, editor(s)Epinoux, Estelle and Healy, Frank , Cultural Perspectives on the Irish in Latin America, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023, [Medina, María], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Medina, María, La escritura de Juan José Delaney hacia fines del siglo XX: la historia argentino-irlandesa en Tréboles del sur, SILAS International Conference, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, 2021, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Medina, María, Juan José Delaney, What, che?:Integration, Adaptation and Assimilation of the Irish-Argentine Community through its Language and Literature, IMSLA [Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, Vol. 9, (Issue 3), 2020, p88-91 , Review, PUBLISHED
  

Medina, María, Vamos Argentina: Why so Many Irish are Supporting La Scaloneta, 2022, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Medina, María, The uses of Irishness in the narratives of Bulfin, Walsh and Delaney. A study on Irish diasporic narratives in the context of twentieth century Argentine literature, PILAS Conference, University of York, UK, 2019, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Medina, María, ¡Viva Irlanda! Remembering the history of the Irish in Argentina, 2019, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


My research is situated at the intersection of Latin American studies, cultural studies, and migration studies, with a particular focus on diasporic and transnational cultural production. I am especially interested in how literature, journalism, and cultural institutions contribute to the construction and negotiation of national, diasporic, and hybrid identities, particularly in contexts shaped by migration and cultural displacement. A central strand of my work examines Irish and Irish-Argentine writing in Argentina between 1890s and 1990s, exploring the ways in which diasporic narratives engage with and contribute to Argentine literary and cultural traditions. My research has since expanded to include the study of cultural memory and identity from peripheral and transnational perspectives, adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary analysis, cultural theory, and intercultural communication. I am also actively engaged in research related to the representations of death, space, memory, silence, and trauma in diasporic fiction. I welcome supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, particularly for projects related to Latin American and Argentine literature, diaspora and migration studies, transatlantic cultural relations, intercultural communication, and cultural translation. I am especially open to interdisciplinary, comparative, and challenge-based research projects that combine critical analysis with contemporary cultural, social, or global questions.