Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Jacqueline Rattray

BA (Joint Hons) European Thought and Literature & Spanish (Anglia Polytechnic University), 1993; PhD (University of Aberdeen), 2002; Queen Sofía Research Fellow (Exeter College, Oxford), 2002-5; Appointed to Goldsmiths, 2006

Teaching

Tutor on the following BA courses: 'Explorations in Literature', 'Moderns' and 'Surrealism Across the Arts'. Convenor and tutor of the MA course 'International Surrealism'.

Presentations and exhibitions

'Wanderings Through the City and the Mind', exhibition talk at Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, Nov 2009.

Professional activities

• Member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
• Member of the British Comparative Literature Association

Research interests

Jacqueline Rattray's area of specialism is Spanish Surrealism. She has written and published articles on the surrealist poet, José María Hinojosa (1904-36). Her current research is concerned with the experimental writings of various avant-garde artists from Spain, many of whom constituted part of the 'Escuela española de París': Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Hernando Viñes, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, Francisco Bores, Joaquín Peinado, Benjamín Palencia, Àngel Planells, etc.

Selected publications

• 'Pintor de soleares: Manuel Ángeles Ortiz y sus Albaycines,' EntreRios. Revista de arte y letras (Granada), V, No. 11-12 (Invierno-Primavera, 2010), pp. 175-182.

• 'Analyzing Surrealist Madness through the Poetry of Salvador Dalí,' Comparative Critical Studies (Edinburgh), Vol. 5, 2-3 (2008), pp. 207-220.

• 'Crossing the French-Spanish Border with José María Hinojosa' in Surrealism: Crossings / Frontiers, edited by Elza Adamowicz (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006), European Connections Series, pp. 151-70.
  

• 'La mitología surrealista de José María Hinojosa' in Escondido en la luz. José María Hinojosa y su tiempo, edición al cuidado de Julio Neira y Almoraima González (Málaga: Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, 2005), pp. 101-12.
  

• 'Àngel Planells: esbós d’un poeta'; 'Àngel Planells: esbozo de un poeta'; 'Àngel Planells: Sketch of a Poet,' article in Catalan, Spanish and English in Planellsurrealista (Blanes: Fundació Àngel Planells, 2004), pp. 35-9; pp. 249-52 and pp. 267-70.
  

• 'La teoría del collage surrealista ilustrada por Àngel Planells y José María Hinojosa,' Insula (Madrid), 694 (octubre 2004), pp. 30-31, 33.
  

• '"Granadas de fuego": Un ejemplo literario del método paranoico-crítico' in José María Hinojosa (1904-1936): Entre dos luces, exhibition catalogue (Málaga: Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, 2004), pp. 118-123.
  

• 'El ojo mutilado en el surrealismo: "Cuando llueve en el desierto" de José María Hinojosa y Un Chien andalou de Buñuel y Dalí' in José María Hinojosa (1904-1936): Entre dos luces, exhibition catalogue (Málaga: Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, 2004), pp. 124-128.
  

• 'A Delicious Imaginary Journey with Joan Miró and José María Hinojosa' in A Companion to Surrealism in Spain, edited by Robert Havard (London: Tamesis, 2004), pp. 33-48.
  

• 'Surrealist Poetry in Motion: José María Hinojosa and Luis Buñuel' in Buñuel. Siglo XXI, edited by I. Santaolalla et al. (Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza e Institución Fernando el Católico, 2004), Imágenes Series, pp. 429-437.
  

• 'The Theory of Surrealist Collage Through Image and Text: Àngel Planells and José María Hinojosa' in Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture, edited by Federico Bonaddio & Xon de Ros (Oxford: EHRC, 2003), Legenda Series, pp. 118-134.
  

• 'The Metamorphosis of Vision in the Surrealist Text: José María Hinojosa's "Granadas de fuego"' in Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in its Relations to the Senses, edited by M. Syrotinski & I. Maclachlan (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001), pp. 166-176.
  

• 'The Hallucinogenic Power of Language: José María Hinojosa's "Textos Oníricos"' in André Breton: The Power of Language, edited by Ramona Fotiade (Exeter: Elm Bank, 2000), pp. 161-172.
  

• 'Celebrating Transgression: Blasphemy and Lust in the Work of the Spanish Surrealist José María Hinojosa,' Romance Studies (Swansea), 32, Autumn 1998, pp. 45-55.
  

• 'José María Hinojosa and Surrealist Visuality’ in Actas del IV Congreso de postgraduados en estudios hispánicos, edited by I. Pisonero del Amo, Mª José Gámez Fuentes & G. Hainge (London: Embajada de España, 1996), pp. 159-166.