Brigid Lynch is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Latin American Popular Culture and Society at CEDLA, with a particular interest in contemporary visual culture in the Southern Cone. She completed her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of St Andrews in 2018  and, in 2019, her thesis was awarded the Annual Publication Prize of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI). Her first book Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina: Culture Dialogues of the Post-Crisis Era was published by Legenda in 2021 and explores cultural representations of historicity and of social activism in the decade following the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina.

Brigid has taught Spanish language and literature at the University of St Andrews and the University of Stirling. Most recently, she was an Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Latin American Studies (CLACS), within the Institute for Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS) at the  University of London.  

Her current research project at CEDLA focuses on the cultural history of the theme park in Argentina during the period 1950-2017, and, more broadly, on how strategies of theming and immersion in cultural heritage spaces throughout the Southern Cone promote ideas of citizenship and belonging. Her other ongoing research interests include the translation and reception of the work of British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in Argentina, and transnational solidarity links between Scotland and Latin America during the Cold War.