Ana Cruz García

Biography: Dr. Ana Cruz García, Dept. Marketing and International Business, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

BA (University of Granada, Spain), BBus (CIT), MA (NUI, UCC), PhD (NUI, UCC)

I completed a BA in English at the University of Granada, Spain in 1999. In 2001 I graduated from UCC with an MA and in 2007 with a PhD in the field of Latin American literature and Women Studies. In UCC I was a member of the Dept. of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies until 2008 and I have published on the topic of Women Writing (mainly my book that can be translated as (De)generating identities: The Figure of the Madwomen in Women Writing in Mexico )

Since 2007 I am a lecturer in Spanish in the Dept. of Marketing and International Business in CIT where I completed a BBus in 2013. In CIT I’m an active researcher for the Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence, particularly interested in the projects on female entrepreneurship. With Hincks I’m currently researching the reality of the “forgotten entrepreneur” in Ireland, particularly the childminding profession, the impact of their work in their personal lives, the lives of the children’s parents and society in general.

My current research interests include language and cultures, gender studies, artistic visual representations (mainly cinema) and business (particularly entrepreneurship and international business)