Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos
Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 4395
- kcvb1@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 309
- Location
- Buchanan
- Office hours
- Tuesday and Wednesday, by appointment
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Biography
Dr Valderrama-Burgos's relevant background spans across the areas of cultural, gender, and film studies, in relation to Latin America and Spanish-speaking contexts. Funded by different grants, she completed her PhD in 2020 and holds an MA in Film and Film Cultures, both from University of Leicester. She also holds a BA in Education with emphasis in Spanish and English languages from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia). She is currently the Director of Teaching for the School of Modern Languages and the co-treasurer of the Executive Committee of SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies in the UK).听
Teaching
With long-standing teaching experience, Karol has been a university tutor since 2014 at different university levels. She has taught language-focused modules (conversational, grammar, and translation/composition classes), and research-led modules on cinemas from Colombia and Latin America and feminist perspectives on Spanish-speaking cultures and contexts.
She has been language coordinator for first year advanced Spanish at the University of St 糖心logo (SP1001/SP1002), and she teaches on several modules in the Spanish, Comparative Literature and MLitt programmes. Prior to teaching in the UK, she worked as an English language teacher for 7 years in Colombia.
She has gained relevant experience in the roles of Employability Officer and UG Dissertations Convener in the School of Modern Languages (2023-2026), and she took part of the staff working group on creative assessments.
Research areas
Dr Valderrama-Burgos's research interests comprise cinemas from Colombia and Latin America, women filmmakers and writers, decolonial thought, feminist perspectives, and representations of gender. Her work has been published in Latin American Perspectives, Journal of Gender Studies,听Canaguaro. Revista de cine colombiano,听among others.
Her first monograph, Mujer, diversidad y cine en Colombia: perspectivas de g茅nero e im谩genes de la mujer en el siglo XXI听(2023), is based on the doctoral research that was fully funded by Colciencias听(now听Minciencias, Colombia).听
In 2025-2026, she co-led Reenacting Women's Lives: Queer Acting, Art and Creation in St 糖心logo, an EDI initiative, research-led and community-based experience, that promoted diverse and inclusive encounters in St 糖心logo to interrogate dominant narratives on diverse women. This was made possible in close collaboration with Ciara Rooney (School President for ML 2025-2026) and Emily Hadfield (Spanish Convenor 2025-2026), and with the generous support of the University EDI Project Fund, The Embassy of Colombia to the UK, the University of St 糖心logo's Students Union, CAS, and the School of Modern Languages.
Selected publications
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Open access
P茅rez-Osorio, J. & Valderrama-Burgos, K., 1 Apr 2026, In: Bulletin of Latin American Research. 45, 2, e70069.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Open access
Valderrama-Burgos, K. & Fielding, G., 11 Nov 2025, In: Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. 29-30, p. 42-69
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Valderrama-Burgos, K., 1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Romance Studies. 24, 1, p. 97-123 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Open access
Valderrama-Burgos, K., 26 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Gender Studies . Latest Articles, 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Valderrama-Burgos, K., 24 Dec 2024, Female agency in films by Latin American women. Rueda, M. H. & Barraza, V. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 143-165 23 p. (Global cinema).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review
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Valderrama-Burgos, K., 2023, Bogota虂: Editorial Universidad del Rosario. 381 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
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Valderrama-Burgos, K., 24 Nov 2022, Gender and action films 1980-2000: beauty in motion. Gerrard, S. & Middlemost, R. (eds.). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., p. 103-121 (Emerald studies in popular culture and gender).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review
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Valderrama-Burgos, K., 5 Sept 2022, In: Jump Cut. 61
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Book/Film/Article review 鈥� peer-review
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Open access
Valderrama-Burgos, K., 22 Feb 2022, In: MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities. 16, p. 28-36 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Valderrama-Burgos, K., 30 Apr 2021, In: Canaguaro. Revista de Cine Colombiano. 2, p. 38-45
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article
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