Rate My Professor Kate Averis

Averis's research specializations encompass translingual and transcultural approaches to writing in and between Spanish, French, and English, with a particular emphasis on contemporary women’s writing and gender. Her interests also extend to European languages, literatures, and cultures; Latin American literatures and cultures; French and Francophone literatures and cultures; and translation theories and practices. She has earned the School of Humanities Mid-Career Research Award in 2025 and the School of Humanities Excellence in Teaching Award in 2024. Notable publications include the co-edited volume Contested Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe (Legenda, 2023, with Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex), the chapter ‘Still the Carer Sex?: Women Ageing and Caring in Contemporary Women’s Writing’ in Women’s Narratives of Ageing and Care (De Gruyter, 2025), and the article ‘Escritura translingüe en el Caribe colombiano: Los cristales de la sal de Cristina Bendek’ in Estudios Romanicos (2023). Averis holds editorial roles as co-editor for Latin American and Francophone Writing and Culture in the Literary Encyclopedia, and serves on the editorial boards of Essays in French Literature and Culture, the Series in Annie Ernaux International Studies (Brill-Rodopi), and the Series in French and Francophone Studies (University of Wales Press). Her ongoing projects investigate women’s ageing in twenty-first-century women’s writing and translingual women’s writing in the Americas. She is accepting PhD students in Spanish and Latin American studies, French and Francophone studies, translation studies, and literary and gender studies.