Claire is currently a senior lecturer in Latin American history at
Newcastle University. Academic Qualifications: PhD History,
University of Warwick, (2001); MA History by Research (Distinction)
(1995); BA (Hons.) Class One, Comparative American Studies (1993)
Claire has previously worked as a research associate for the AHRC
project Gendering Latin American Independence (based at the
universities of Manchester and Nottingham) and has taught
undergraduate and post-graduate students at the University of
Warwick (1996-2001), Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge,
(1998-2001) and the University of Nottingham (2004-05). Selected
publications include: Claire Brewster, Responding to Crisis in
Contemporary Mexico: The Political Writings of Paz, Fuentes,
Monsiváis and Poniatowska, University of Arizona Press, Tucson,
2005. Claire Brewster and Keith Brewster, Representing the Nation:
Sport and Spectacle in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Oxford:
Routledge, 2010. Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen,
South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text, Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 2006. Claire Brewster, ‘Mexico 1968: A
Crisis of National Identity’, in Ingo Cornils and Sarah Waters,
(eds.), Memories of 1968: International Perspectives, Oxford: Peter
Lang, 2010, pp.149-178.