Sonia García de Alba Lobeira, M.Sc.
PhD Candidate and Research Associate
Pronouns: she/her
Room: 4206 | KGIV
Office phone number: 203-97445
Email: sonia.garciadealba@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Sonia García de Alba Lobeira is a PhD candidate at the University of Freiburg where she researches the representation of emotions in Middle English romances of falsely-accused queens. She was a member of the DFG-funded Reinhart Koselleck Project “Diachronic Narratology” from 2019 to 2024 and is currently a research associate working at the von Contzen Chair. She completed her undergraduate studies in Hispanic Literature in Mexico and studied abroad at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. In 2017, she was awarded a Chevening Scholarship by the British FCO to study an MSc in Medieval Literatures and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with distinction. Her dissertation focused on the politicized adaptation of prophetic texts in medieval vernacular literatures, specifically those connected to the character Merlin. Currently, she is in the final stages of her doctorate dissertation.
Research interests:
- Medieval romance
- Gender representation in medieval texts
- History of emotions
Employment:
03.2024 – 09.2024 | Research Associate at the von Contzen Chair. |
10.2019 – 02.2024 | Research Associate at the Reinhart Koselleck Project “Diachronic Narratology” led by Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik. Project No. 404215440, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
01.2019 – 06.2019 | Lecturer at Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico). |
Awards, grants and fellowships:
- LGFG Doctoral Completion Grant (Abschulssstipendium), University of Freiburg (2023)
- Chevening Scholar (2017-2018)
- Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Scholarship (2012-2013)
- Fellow of the Yale Visiting International Student Program (2012-2013)
List of Publications
- García de Alba Lobeira, Sonia. “Medieval Afterlives: The Circulation Culture of Late Middle English Romances from William Caxton’s Press”. Anglia: Journal of English Philology, Special Issue “Serial Circulation: Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities”. Eds. Daniel Stein & Maxi Albrecht, 1/2025. In preparation.
- García de Alba Lobeira, Sonia. “Late Middle English Prose Romances”. Narrative Structure from 1250 – 1750: A Genre by Genre Analysis. Monika Fludernik. Routledge, 2024. In preparation.
- Posth, Carlotta and Sonia García de Alba (2023) “Coherence-Making Strategies in the Renaut de Montauban Tradition: From French Verse to English Prose”. Linguistica. Vol. 63 No. 1-2: Sociocultural change and the development of vernacular languages in Early Modern Europe, Ed. Oliver Currie, pp. 89–121.
Select Conference Papers
- “Narrating Emotions: Evolving Narrative Strategies in the Late Medieval Prose Romances”. Annual Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of Lausanne (UNIL), 26–30 August 2024.
- “Rewriting the Crescentia-Constance Tales in Middle English Poetry”. Romance Reception: Narratives Across Borders Workshop, University of Dusseldorf (HHU Düsseldorf), 21–22 May 2024.
- “Between the Private and the Public: Space and Emotional Performance in Middle English Romances of Calumniated Queens”. Medieval Insular Romance Conference 2024: Beyond Borders, University of Strasbourg, 9–10 April 2024.
- “Women Accused: Public and Private Displays of Emotion in Middle English Romances”. XXIII. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter, University of Munich (LMU München). 17–18 November 2023.
- “Performing Female Monstrosity in Romances of Calumniated Queens”. Gender, Emotion and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages (GEMMA). International Winter School, University of Tübingen. 9–11 November 2023.
- “‘And terys let he falle’: Gendered expressions of grief and joy in medieval tales of calumniated queens”. Whisperings of Love – Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Age. Emerging Scholars Workshop organized by the Interdisciplinary. Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (INFK), University of Osnabrü 12–14 October 2022.
- “Narratological and Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotions in Medieval Romance”. Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions, University of St Andrews. 31 May–1 June 2022.
- “Emotions in Medieval Tales of Calumniated Queens: A Narratological Approach to the Study of Feeling in Middle English Romance”. Medieval Studies Colloquium at the University of Du 11 January 2022. (Invited speaker)
- “Narrative Strategies in the Late Middle Ages: Focalization and Subjectivity in Tales of Calumniated Queens”. International Conference on Narrative 2021 (Online). May 2021.
Workshop Organisation:
- “Medieval Identities: (Re-) Constructing the Self and the Other”. Workshop at the University of Freiburg, 23 May 2023.
- “Transformation”. 4th Annual Conference of The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society, University of Edinburgh, 4 June 2018.
- “Impresiones en el tiempo. De letras, lecturas y lectores (siglos XVI-XXI) [Impressions in time: Of writing, reading and readers (XVI – XXI centuries)]”. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), II International Latin American Conference, Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey, 3-6 March 2015.
Teaching:
Winter term 2023/24
- “Stories of Falsely Accused Queens in the Middle Ages and Beyond” (Proseminar), University of Freiburg.
Winter term 2022/23
- “The Green Knight: Remaking a Medieval Poem in Film” (Block Seminar, February 2023)
EPICUR Hybrid Winter School: “The Reception of Northern European History and Myth in Popular Media”, University of Freiburg.
Summer term 2021
- “Medievalism in Pop Culture: The Enduring Legacy of the European Middle Ages”. (Proseminar). EPICUR, University College Freiburg.
Winter term 2020/2021
- “Introduction to Literary Theory” (Master Colloquium Tutorial), University of Freiburg.
Winter term 2018/2019
- “Medieval Spanish Literature” (Seminar), Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico).