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Natasha Tanna

Biography

Natasha Tanna is a Senior Lecturer in World Literature and the Co-Director of the Modern Research School. She specialises in contemporary literary engagements with feminist, queer, and decolonial theory and activism. Her areas of expertise include Latin(x) American and Caribbean literature as well as Iberian literature in Spanish and Catalan. 

Natasha joined the Department in September 2021 and held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship until December 2022. Prior to coming to York, Natasha was a Research Fellow in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College London and Lecturer in Spanish and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in Spanish, MPhil in Latin American Studies, and BA in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. Natasha has been a visiting researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (Gender Studies Centre) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City and at ADHUC, the Centre for Gender Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has also taught English at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico.

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Dr Natasha Tanna
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323351