Overview
Background
Sol's research interests include: (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Trauma and Memory Studies, Perceived Discrimination, Critical Translation Studies, Decolonial Thought.
Sol is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland in Australia. She teaches language, literature, and cultural studies courses. Sol’s research interests include memory and trauma studies, everyday discourses of discrimination, and Decolonial Thought. Sol has over 50 publications, including four books, one co-edited book, and five books as a translator. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Semiotics, Critical Discourse Studies, Memory Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Languages in Contrast, Babel, Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, and JILAR among others. Her co-authored historical Graphic Memoir Historias Clandestinas (2014) had a second edition in 2023 and is currently being made into a film. The English version of the graphic novel was published in 2023 in the U.S.
Availability
- Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Cape Town
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Cape Town
- Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Discourse Studies
Discourse Analysis from a decolonial perspective using tools from Critical Discourse Analysis and Discursive Psychology.
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Memory and Trauma Studies
Sites of Memory, Digital Memory Studies
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Perceived Discrimination
Perceived Discrimination in the field of Discourse Analysis is the study of discourse from the perspective of the victims of discrimination. Qualitative analysis of open ended interviews are used as data.
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Critical Translation Studies
The phenomenon of manipulation and censorship in translations Spanish-English-Spanish. The translation of Decolonial Thought.
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile. Memory Studies, 17 (4), 871-886. doi: 10.1177/17506980231195570
2024
Journal Article
Fallas epistemológicas en la traducción inglesa del pensamiento decolonial y no-colonial latinoamericano
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). Fallas epistemológicas en la traducción inglesa del pensamiento decolonial y no-colonial latinoamericano. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, 46 (1) 1, 13-32. doi: 10.18192/rceh.v46i1.6874
2024
Journal Article
“Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). “Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile. Social Semiotics, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10350330.2024.2314460
2024
Book Chapter
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law
Dolhare, Maria Itati and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law. The law and critical discourse studies. (pp. 282-293) edited by Le Cheng and David Machin. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2023
Other Outputs
Clandestine stories
Rojas Lizana, Ariel (Original author & Translator) and Rojas Lizana, Sol (Original author & Translator) (2023). Clandestine stories. Translated ed. Shreveport, LA, United States: Ends of the World Comics.
2023
Journal Article
Canova, Paola (2020) Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco, University of Texas Press (Austin), xi + 192pp. $70.34 hbk
Rojas‐Lizana, Sol (2023). Canova, Paola (2020) Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco, University of Texas Press (Austin), xi + 192pp. $70.34 hbk. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 42 (1), 172-173. doi: 10.1111/blar.13451
2023
Other Outputs
Historias clandestinas
Rojas-Lizana, Ariel and Rojas Lizana, Sol (2023). Historias clandestinas. 2nd edn ed. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
2022
Journal Article
Estudio de audiencias durante la pandemia y el estallido social chileno: efectos de la conmemoración virtual del 11 de septiembre del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
Massa, Beatriz Aguila, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Abarca, Ramon Uribe (2022). Estudio de audiencias durante la pandemia y el estallido social chileno: efectos de la conmemoración virtual del 11 de septiembre del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. Clepsidra. Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios sobre Memoria, 9 (18) 2, 10-27.
2022
Journal Article
Discourses of memory denial and the concept of dignity: the Graderías de la Dignidad memorial at the National Stadium in Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2022). Discourses of memory denial and the concept of dignity: the Graderías de la Dignidad memorial at the National Stadium in Chile. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 28 (1), 53-66. doi: 10.1080/13260219.2022.2087323
2022
Journal Article
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law
Dolhare, María Itatí and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2022). Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law. Critical Discourse Studies, 20 (3), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2102517
2021
Journal Article
El translenguaje en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: una lectura decolonial
Seif, Natalie and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2021). El translenguaje en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: una lectura decolonial. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 98 (1), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/14753820.2021.1877441
2021
Other Outputs
Historias clandestinas
Ariel Rojas Lizana and Sol Rojas-Lizana (2021). Historias clandestinas. eBook ed. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
2021
Conference Publication
El visitante de las exposiciones itinerantes del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos: un análisis discursivo de los libros de visita en Puerto Montt y Valdivia
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2021). El visitante de las exposiciones itinerantes del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos: un análisis discursivo de los libros de visita en Puerto Montt y Valdivia. VIII Congreso de Educación, Museos Y Patrimonio “Compartir, incluir e integrar para el futuro”, Valparaíso, Chile, 25-26 November 2019. Santiago, Chile: ICOM.
2021
Journal Article
¿Qué Importa el preámbulo?: pensamiento decolonial en el preámbulo de las constituciones de Bolivia y Ecuador: una aproximación desde el análisis del discurso
Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Dolhare, María Itatí (2021). ¿Qué Importa el preámbulo?: pensamiento decolonial en el preámbulo de las constituciones de Bolivia y Ecuador: una aproximación desde el análisis del discurso. Critical Discourse Studies, 18 (1), 43-75. doi: 10.1080/17405904.2019.1567363
2021
Journal Article
Family language policies among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Chowdhury, Farzana Yesmen and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2021). Family language policies among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia. International Multilingual Research Journal, 15 (2), 178-193. doi: 10.1080/19313152.2020.1846835
2020
Journal Article
Decolonial design in practice: designing meaningful and transformative science communications for Navakavu, Fiji
Taboada, Manuela B., Rojas-Lizana, Sol, Dutra, Leo X. C. and Levu, Adi VasuLevu M. (2020). Decolonial design in practice: designing meaningful and transformative science communications for Navakavu, Fiji. Design and Culture, 12 (2), 141-164. doi: 10.1080/17547075.2020.1724479
2020
Journal Article
Perceived discrimination in the discourse of second-wave Latin American immigrants in Brisbane
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2020). Perceived discrimination in the discourse of second-wave Latin American immigrants in Brisbane. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 4 (1), 25-46. doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00011_1
2020
Journal Article
Ageing in a foreign land: Stressors and coping strategies in the discourse of older adult Spanish speakers in Australia
Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Cordella, Marisa (2020). Ageing in a foreign land: Stressors and coping strategies in the discourse of older adult Spanish speakers in Australia. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 4 (1), 5-23. doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00010_1
2020
Book Chapter
The visitor’s gaze in the museum of memory and human rights in Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2020). The visitor’s gaze in the museum of memory and human rights in Chile. Places of traumatic memory. (pp. 83-106) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_5
2020
Book
Places of traumatic memory: a global context
Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman eds. (2020). Places of traumatic memory: a global context. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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The discourse of perceived discrimination of stigmatised identities
Perceived Discrimination (PD) is the study of discrimination that centres on the victims' experience through the analysis of their accounts. PD emerged in the areas of social psychology, psychiatry, migrant studies as quantitative research. PD in the area of Discourse Studies is qualitative research that looks at the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of PD discourse. It uses content and discourse analysis (CDA, Cognitive Linguistics, Discursive Psychology) to analyse the data. I am available to supervise projects on PD in the area of Discourse Studies working with the following identities: international students, ageism, neurodivergent people, blind people, deaf people, or other stigmatised identities. Please read the book The discourse of perceived discrimination: Perspectives from contemporary Australian society (Routledge, 2020) before contacting me.
I am available to supervise in the fields of Trauma and Memory Studies and Decolonial Thought.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
20th century Western discourses in Martín Gusinde and José Emperaire's monographs on the Kawésqar world and southern Chile: A decolonial reading
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
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Doctor Philosophy
The discourse of Perceived Discrimination in non-Japanese and mixed-race Japanese people in Japan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lucy Fraser
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Master Philosophy
An interdisciplinary study of transgenerational trauma in Russia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Anna Mikhaylova, Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
Completed supervision
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
The concept of Vivir Bien (Living Well) and the constitutional recognition of indigenous epistemologies: Towards a decolonising legal project
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Roberto Esposto, Associate Professor Sally Babidge
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Medium of instruction and the discourses of "Self" and "Other" in print and social media in Bangladesh
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Min Jung Jee
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Deconstruction of Cultural Knowledge and Ideologies in Saudi Arabia Secondary School English Language Textbook Series
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Isaac Lee
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Building belonging through everyday otherness and conviviality: A study of people from African backgrounds and long-term residents in the community of Moorooka, Brisbane
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Adriana Diaz
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
ZNeo-caudillismo in Argentine political literature: Crónicas on Carlos Saúl Menem and Néstor Carlos Kirchner
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Roberto Esposto
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Language and culture maintenance among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Associate Advisor
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
An Interactional Sociolinguistic Analysis of Kanto and Kansai Listening Behaviours
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kayoko Hashimoto
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Ideologies and power relations in a global commercial English language textbook used in South Korean universities: A critical image and a critical discourse analysis
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Isaac Lee
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Legitimation of violence against women in Colombia: A feminist critical discourse analytic study
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana directly for media enquiries about:
- Discourse analysis
- Discrimination research
- English to Spanish
- Second language teaching
- Spanish
- Translation (English to Spanish)
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