Staff Profile
Katie Salmon
Research Associate
- Email: katherine.salmon@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 208225
- Address: School of Geography, Politics & Sociology
Room 4.101, Henry Daysh Building
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
My research spans the Medical Humanities, Spanish and Latin American and Disability Studies. My particular interests include affect theory, visual and literary culture, (crises of) neoliberalism, bio/psycho-politics, the decolonisation of mental health and illness and youth transitions. I completed my AHRC-funded PhD and MLitt at Newcastle University’s School of Modern Languages. My doctoral thesis examined societal crises and youth mental health in Chilean and Spanish culture. My MLitt explored disability, gender and biopolitics in Spanish cultural production. I also hold a postgraduate certificate in ELT and Applied Linguistics from Kings College London and a BA in French and Spanish from Royal Holloway.
I am currently working as Research Associate on the ESRC funded project Exploring the Inequalities and Diversities in Disabled Young Adult Transitions. I previously held an ECR Fellowship from the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research and worked for a mental health charity. I also taught English in Spain and the UK for many years and worked as Assessment Manager at Cambridge University Press and Assessment, producing examinations and teaching materials.
- Salmon K. ‘“Hangxiety” in contemporary Spanish women’s graphic autofiction’. In: Harpin, A, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Madness in Literature and Visual Culture. Bloomsbury, 2024.
- Salmon K. ‘¿Ojos que no ven?: the blind female gaze in Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Seis puntos sobre Emma’ (2011). Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas 2023. In Press.
- Salmon K. "A Malaise That We Don't Know What To Name": Cruel Optimism and Residual Disenchantment in Nadar's El mundo a tus pies (2015). In: Porras Sánchez, M, Vilches, G, ed. Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis. Routledge, 2022, pp.60-72.
- Salmon K. Shame and Eviction in Juan Miguel del Castillo’s Techo y comida (2015). Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 2021, 5(1), 61-89.