Verónica Membrive studied English and earned a Master’s Degree in English Studies in 2011. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Almería (2017) on Irish travel writers in Spain during the twentieth-century. She has delivered papers on Walter Starkie, Kate O’Brien and Pearse Hutchison and their travels in Spain. She is currently teaching English at the University of Almería. Her field of research is Irish Literature, with a special focus on the relationships between Ireland and Spain. She has been awarded the International George Campbell Award for her research on Hiberno-Spanish cultural relations (University of Málaga, 2018).

"Walter Starkie and the Easter Rising: Facing History with Humour." Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times. Eds. María Losada-Friend, Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, Pilar Ron-Vaz. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 157-170.


“Echoes of Walter Starkie’s Voice from The Road to Santiago in Luis Buñuel’s The Milky Way”. Babel Afial 23 (2014): 121-136.


"Walter Starkie: An Oddyssey by Jacqueline Hurtley”. Estudios Irlandeses 9 (2014):159-160. To view or download document, click here.

Recent publications

"Exiles at home, neither in exile nor at home". New Insights in Pearse Hutchinson's Image of Spanish Regionalism in the 1950s-1970s". Studi Irlandesi, vol. 9. [Forthcoming 2019].


"Margaret Drabble's Laura and Television in Britain in the 1960s." The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition. Ed. José Francisco Fernández Sánchez. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2018. 148-161.

"Kate O'Brien and Spanish Literary Culture by Jane Davison." Estudios Irlandeses, 14 (2019): 263-264.


"Beyond Balcony of Europe: Aidan Higgins’s Knowing Look at Spain in the 1960s and 1970s." Nordic Irish Studies, 17, 2 (2018): 93-110.


“‘The Cultural Links between Galicia and Ireland Continue to Flourish Today’: An Interview with the Director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies (UCC) Martín Veiga.” Estudios Irlandeses 12 (2017): 167-173.