Mazal Oaknín

Mazal Oaknín (FHEA) is Associate Professor (Teaching) and Spanish Language Coordinator at University College London, where she teaches Spanish language, literature and translation at UG and PG levels. She is the Project Lead of the “Tackling the BAME-BIPOC Awarding Gap” project and the “Fighting the BIPOC Awarding Gap Project Through Reverse Mentoring” project, as well as the co-director of the e-Expert Seminar Series in Translation and Modern Language Education” (UCL and University of Córdoba). Mazal is the co-editor of Literatura política y política literaria en España: Del Desastre del 98 a Felipe VI (Peter Lang, 2015) and author of Writing, Feminism and the Media in Spain (Peter Lang, 2019). Her co-edited volume Innovation in Translation Education: A New Focus on EDI will appear in UCL Press in 2024.

Publications

Spanish Contemporary Women's Writing as a Tool to Teach CSE: A Case Study on Crónica del Desamor and Amor, Curiosidad, Prozac y Dudas
Spanish Contemporary Women's Writing as a Tool to Teach CSE: A Case Study on Crónica del Desamor and Amor, Curiosidad, Prozac y Dudas
Mazal Oaknín. © 2024. 18 pages.
This chapter presents a pedagogical proposal for a contemporary Spanish literature lesson in which students work on key social-emotional skills while carrying out textual...
Evolving From a Heteronormative World Into an Intersectional Language Curriculum: Creating an LGTBQI+ Safe Space in the Classroom
Evolving From a Heteronormative World Into an Intersectional Language Curriculum: Creating an LGTBQI+ Safe Space in the Classroom
Marga Navarrete, Mazal Oaknín. © 2023. 18 pages.
Over the last few decades, advances in social reform in the area of LGBTQI+ protection have been taking place in many countries around the world. However, resources on language...