Originally from Sydney, I lived in India and Canberra, but grew up in Melbourne. My interest in Spanish language and culture dates from 1988 when I started learning the language privately before travelling throughout Spain in 1989-90.
I became interested in Catalan culture through friends and, as part of my B.A. at La Trobe University, I studied history, Spanish and Catalan language and literature.
Is science fiction the future of crime fiction? Catalan writer Jordi de Manuel thinks so, and in my chapter in this collection, “Distopía y detectives: la ficción criminal de Jordi de Manuel” , I explore de Manuel’s representation of a futuristic dystopian Barcelona, plagued by ... Read more
My chapter in this collection, “‘Don’t Forget the Tejedor’: Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction of Rosa Ribas” explores issues of cultural hybridity in the first two novels of Rosa Riba’s “Cornelia Weber-Tejedor” series. The series is set in Frankfurt and the protagonist is a police inspector with a German father and a ... Read more
