Carolina Miranda
Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
Carolina Miranda is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a certified freelance translator and interpreter, and member of the New Zealand Centre of Literary Translation. Her research interests include translation and twentieth-century Latin American literature. She has published on Roberto Arlt’s theatre and narrative work, as well as on Argentine, Scandinavian, Spanish and New Zealand crime fiction. Together with Jean Anderson and Barbara Pezzotti they co-edited The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2012), Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More (Palgrave, 2015), and Blood at the Table: Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction (McFarland, 2018). Her articles have also appeared in other venues such as Clues and in the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.
Latest publications
- Miranda, Carolina and Victoria Ríos Castaño. ‘Argentinean Women in Noir: Challenging Religious Discourses in Claudia Piñeiro’s Catedrales (2020)’, in Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2023). (https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2182990)
- Miranda, Carolina. ‘Swindling in Times of Crisis: Argentine Crime Fictions of the Millennium in Print and on Screen’ in Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture. Eds Diana Aramburu and Nick Phillips, Hispanic Issues On Line, vol 29 (2022): 22–39. (https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/crisis-unleashed-crime-turmoil- and-protest-hispanic-literature-and-visual-culture)
- Carolina Miranda. ‘Temporal, (Trans)national and Human Mobility in María Inés Krimer’s Kosher Trilogy’, in Transational Crime Fiction. Mobility, Borders and Detection. Eds. Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki and Marinella Rodi-Risberg. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 63 78.