Dr Anna Clayfield
Programme Leader for BA Modern Languages & Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Anna joined the Department in December 2015, having previously taught at Cardiff University (2014-15) and the University of Nottingham (2010-2013), where she completed her doctoral research in Hispanic and Latin American Studies.
Anna teaches on modules across the undergraduate Spanish programme, and on the MA in European Languages and Cultures. Her teaching interests include twentieth-century Latin American culture and history, with a particular focus on Cuba.
Anna’s doctoral thesis examined the ways in which the guerrilla origins of the Cuban Revolution have continued to shape the beliefs and values that have underpinned the revolutionary project since 1959. Beyond this topic, Anna is interested in the influence of the Cuban Revolution on armed movements in Latin America and Quebec during the Cold War, as well as a range of issues relating to the fields of contemporary Latin American history and cultural studies.
Books
The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. 2019. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Co-edited books
Kirk, Emily J., Anna Clayfield & Isabel Story. 2018. Cuba’s Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s shaped the Revolution. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Kirk, Emily J., Isabel Story & Anna Clayfield. Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness in Cuba: Adaptation and Management. Lanham: Lexington Books. (Forthcoming spring 2021).
Book chapters
Clayfield, A.C. (2021). Vive la révolution...tout de suite! : la dimension internationale du militantisme armé au Québec dans les années 1960. In T. Obergöker/ J. F. H. Hennuy (Eds.), Mai 68, une approche transatlantique (pp. 41-56). Peter Lang.
“Bastión: the shaping of a pueblo combatiente and natural disaster management”. In Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness in Cuba: Adaptation and Management, edited by Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story and Anna Clayfield. Lanham: Lexington Books. (Forthcoming spring 2021).
“Militarized by Moscow? Re-examining Soviet influence on Cuba in the 1970s.” In Cuba’s Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s shaped the Revolution, edited by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield and Isabel Story, 71-85. Lanham: Lexington Books.
“Antonio Maceo y Grajales”. 2016: In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, edited by Franklin Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press.
Book reviews
May 2020: Pablo Alonso González, Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2018), in Journal of Latin American Studies (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 52, No. 2, pp.460-462.
Public scholarship
“Olive Green Graphics”, Cuba Counterpoints.
- BA (Manchester)
- MA (Manchester)
- PhD (Nottingham)