Dr Sally-Ann Kitts

Contact Details

• Telephone: (0117) 9289755
• Fax: (0117) 331 8010
• Email: s-a.kitts@bris.ac.uk
• Room: 2.52 15 Woodland Road
• Research Publications

Administrative Duties

Undergraduate Programme Coordinator; Senior Admissions Officer

Teaching

Year 1

• Introduction to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
• Techniques of Textual Analysis

Year 2

• The Masks of Don Juan: Representations of the Legendary Figure in Spain, 1630-1930
• El siglo de las luces: Literature and Society in Spain 1700-1814

Year 4

• Catalan Literature
• The Theatre of Federico García Lorca
• Gender and Identity in Spanish Theatre: From the Golden Age to Romanticism

MA

• The Passions of Poets and Puppets: The Theatre of Ramón María del Valle-Inclán and Federico García Lorca (1920-1936)
• Advanced Language – Spanish
• Constructing Identities

Dr Kitts also coordinates and oversees Catalan Studies at Bristol, both within the degree of Hispanic Studies and in terms of units available to students across the University, working with the Catalan Government-funded Language Tutor, Laura Soler González.

General

A graduate in Spanish and Philosophy from the University of Sheffield (BA Hons 1^st Class 1986; PhD 1991), Sally-Ann Kitts was appointed as a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol in 1989 and then to a Lectureship in 1990. She was the Faculty of Arts Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1997 – 2000 and following promotion to Senior Lecturer, she was Head of Department from 2000 – 2006. From 2006-2007 she held a University Research Fellowship and is currently Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Studies with the role of Head of Education and Admissions Officer for HiPLA. Dr Kitts is also a Visiting Examiner for Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and held previous appointments as an External Examiner at the Universities of Southampton (2004-2007) and Wales, Swansea (2005-2009).

Research

Sally-Ann Kitts' current research interests lie in the field of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature and intellectual history and she is the author of The Debate on the Nature, Role and Influence of Woman in Eighteenth-CenturySpain, (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995). She has recently completed for theMadrid editorial Castalia, a scholarly edition of the uncut text of Leandro Moratín's La mojigata, based on a manuscript of the play presented by the author himself to Elizabeth, Lady Holland in 1804. Dr Kitts is currently working in three separate but interrelated areas. The first is further studies on writings about women in Enlightenment Spain, including an article on José Clavijo’s satirical pamphlets from 1755, ‘Disciplining women in eighteenth-century Spain’. The second is a major study provisionally entitledModernity and Constructions of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain. The third relates to the life and writings of Elizabeth, Lady Holland and includes work on a scholarly edition of her Spanish Journal (1802-5, 1808-9), based on the original manuscripts located in the British Library, and a new biography.

Dr Kitts has supervised postgraduate research on ‘Unamuno and Socialism’ (Rhîan Williams, PhD 2009) and would welcome enquiries in her research areas outlined above and on the theatre of Lorca.

Recent Publications

'El Diario español de LadyElizabeth Holland: observaciones y experiencias de la cultura española de la primera década delsiglo diecinueve', in Maríadel Val González de la Peña, ed., Mujer y cultura escrita:Delmitoal siglo XXI, (Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 2005), 239-250.

'Perceptions of the Peninsula War: Lady Holland's Second Visit to Spain and Portugal, 1808-9', Antes y después del Quijote: en el cincuentenario de la Asociación de Hispanistas deGran Bretaña e Irlanda,eds. Robert Archer, Valdi Astvaldsson, Stephen Boyd & Michael Thompson, (València: Biblioteca Valenciana, 2005), 727-736.

'Leandro Fernández de Moratín’s La Mogigata: The Significance of the Holland Manuscript in the Light of Comments from Elizabeth, Lady Holland’s Spanish Journal (BL, Add. MS. 51931)', Electronic British Library Journal (2006), art. 8, pp. 1-20,

'El importante manuscritoHolland, original de La mojigata salido de las manos de Leandro Fernandez de Moratín', Voz y letra, XIX/2, 2008, 37-42.

'Power, Opposition and Enlightenment in Leandro Moratín’s El sí de las niñas', Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America. Studies on Culture and Theatre in Memory of I. L. McClelland, edited, with an introduction, by Ann L. Mackenzie and Jeremy Robbins, BSS, LXXXVI (2009), 7 and 8, (November, December), 193-212.

'Ignacio López de Ayala and the Paradoxical Nature of Women’s Rights Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Spain', Dieciocho,33.2, Fall, 2010, 361-382.

‘Cadalso’s Cartas marruecas and Questions of Identity, Modernity and Heroism’, Hispanic Research Journal, 12:1, 2011, 34-47.

Leandro Fernández de Moratín, La mojigata, (edited and with an introduction by Sally-Ann Kitts), Madrid, Castalia, (forthcoming).