Job title
Lecturer, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design
Job responsibilities
Ana is Module Leader of Interior/ Architecture in Context Level One and co-Module Leader of the Research and Design Studio Module, in Architecture Level Three. She also contributes to the module Architecture in Context for Level Two and is supervising dissertations for Interior Design final year.
She is second supervisor for PhD Students.
Research, scholarly and professional interests
Ana’s research interest lies in architecture as a cultural manifestation of national identity. In this context she dealt with the search for national identity in post-revolutionary Mexico, and more recently she has been working on identity and architecture, though in a wider context, related to the 1929 Iberoamerican Exhibition in Seville. Her other research interests include the field of post-dictatorship culture in Spain.
Current projects
Ana is currently involved in a new research project on Memory and Identity. It is a collaborative project with other colleagues which aims to show the importance of museums’ architecture when it comes to construct, reconstruct and/or narrate a nation’s identity.
As part of this project, Ana Souto will analyse the case study of Germany, in which memory (both history and collective memory) plays an important role in the construction of a new German identity.
Links
Centre for the Study of Post Conflict Cultures (University of Nottingham)
