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Patricia has been teaching a wide range of media, film and cultural modules for many years, and in the past has also taught Hispanic literatures, cinemas and cultural politics. Her research focuses on Latin American audiovisual, literary and graphic cultures, bridging cultural studies and visual analysis, with particular attention to the Southern Cone. Her current work examines Argentine comics and graphic novels that engage with socio-historical and cultural politics.

Patricia teaches media, cultural and film studies at London Met building on earlier teaching in Hispanic Studies and cultures at various UK universities. Her teaching combines theoretical and socio-political approaches covering a wide range of topics and media formats, including graphic communications, and encouraging critical engagement with contemporary media and cultures.

For many years, she has led a work-based learning module in collaboration with the Employability team and the University's Charities and Social Enterprise Clinics, helping students gain valuable work experience. Patricia also supports students' learning journeys, supervises final-year projects, and is Course Leader for Media and Marketing.

Patricia’s research interests are centered around cultural studies specifically within Latin American audio-visual media cultures, literatures and comics and approaches to cultural production. Her work explores the cultural politics of Argentina with a particular emphasis on the cultural expressions of Peronism and expressions found in cinema, literature, and popular media such as comics and graphic novels.

Currently Patricia is writing on contemporary Argentine graphic novels within political contexts and conducting research on integral female graphic novel artists from Argentina. She is a member of the professional Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.

Conferences

• Eggs, Butter and Power: Unpacking Political Allegory and Social Decay in Fraticelli and Couselo’s Putrefacción’. Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality and the Anthropocene. University of Limerick; Limerick, Ireland, 2 - 3 May 2024
• ‘In Between Worlds: A Journey through Vignettes in Nacha Vollenweider’s Volver’. Third Conference on Latin American Women Writers: ‘The path ahead is vast: Latin American writers between worlds’. Università Ca’ Foscari; Venezia, Italy 13 - 14 June 2024.

Publications

• March 2025. ‘Panels of the Self: Self-referentiality, Memory and Speaking Out on Traumatic Abuse in Sole Otero’s Poncho fue (2017). In: Albaladejo García, N., Noble, F. (eds) Authoring Female Identities in Spanish and Latin American Art and Media. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 353-388. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81444-0_15
• ‘Absences and Traces: Plotting the anti-Peronist bombing of 16 June 1955 in Malandras (2014)’ Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, Special Issue on Comics. Peer-reviewed article. Forthcoming April 2027.
• ‘Revolting Butter and Eggs: An Allegory of Argentina’s 2001 Crisis in Putrefacción (2016)’ Book chapter In: Boán, X., Paz, M. (eds) Crisis in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives. Routledge. In editorial revision. Forthcoming 2027.

• Conference Papers
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  • 2 - 3 May 2024. ‘Eggs, Butter and Power: Unpacking Political Allegory and Social Decay in Putrefacción (2016)’. Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality and the Anthropocene. COS-MICs (COST) and University of Limerick, Ireland.
• • 13 - 14 June 2024. ‘In-between Worlds: A Journey through Vignettes in Nacha Vollenweider’s Volver (2023)’. III International Congress on Latin-American Women Writers: Between Worlds. Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy.
• 1 - 2 Nov 2024. ‘Representing trauma, speaking out on abuse in Sole Otero’s graphic novel Poncho fue (2017)’. Women in Spanish and Portugues Studies WISPS XXIV Annual Conference. University of Westminster, London.
• 27 Nov 2025. ‘She reads, she cleans, she knows: Gendered migration and the subaltern sleuth in Bolita (2013)’. Conference on Travel and Migration in Comics organised conjunctly between Università Ca' Foscari Venezia and the Archive of Migrant Women Writers [Archivio Scritture Scrittrici Migranti], Italy.
• Panels of the Self: Gaslighting and self-referentiality in Sole Otero’s Poncho fue’ – Chapter in edited book. Alternative Voices: Curating Female Subjectivities in Spanish and Latin American Art (1920-2020), Fiona Noble and Nadia Albaladejo García eds. Palgrave MacMillan. Forthcoming.
• Mujeres travestidas, transgresión y la política de contención en Tango! (1933) y La estancia del gaucho Cruz (1938)’. Chapter in edited book. Adrián Melo ed. Otras historias de amor. Buenos Aires: Editorial Lea, 2008. pp. 171-92. ISBN 978-987-634-052-6
• Kindred Spirits: Poems by Regino Boti, edited and intro. by Stephen Hart, Bilingual edition. London: Mango Publishing, 2005. Spanish into English translations of poems within ‘El mar y la montaña’ section. ISBN 1902294270
• Competing Masculinities and Homosocial Desire in El jefe (1958)’, Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 4.2 (Summer 2004), pp. 67-83. ISSN 1473-3536
  'Gaucho Trouble', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, Vol. 8 (2000), June 2003, pp. 223-37. ISSN 0967 1129

Patricia is a Member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Higher Education Association.

Dr Patricia Montenegro

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications

p.montenegro@londonmet.ac.uk