Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana
Spanish Major Convenor
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56718
Researcher biography
Sol's research interests include: (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Trauma and Memory Studies, Perceived Discrimination, Critical Translation Studies, Decolonial Thought.
Sol's first university studies covered Spanish Literature/Education/Teacher Training at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación in Chile. She did a BA Classics (Latin) and Honours in African Studies (literature) at the University of Cape Town with the thesis: Feminism and historical reality in two 'third world' writers: Mariama Bâ (Senegal) and Ángeles Mastreta (Mexico): a comparison. In 1994 Sol relocated to the Galapagos Islands where she worked 6 years as editor translator and library assistant for the Publications Unit of the Charles Darwin Foundation. In 2002 she graduated with an MA (Linguistics) from the University of Queensland and in 2007 with a PhD in the area of Discourse Analysis and Comparative Cultural Studies. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland in Australia. 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 Critical Discourse Studies, Memory Studies, Social Semiotics, 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) has 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.
Books
Rojas-Lizana, Ariel and Rojas Lizana, Sol (2023). Historias clandestinas. 2nd edn ed. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
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.
Ariel Rojas Lizana and Sol Rojas-Lizana (2021). Historias clandestinas. eBook ed. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2020). The discourse of perceived discrimination: perspectives from contemporary Australian society. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429429804
Rojas Lizana, Ariel and Rojas Lizana, Sol (2014). Historias clandestinas. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2009). Discourse and genre in everyday texts. Letters to the Editor in the local press of Australia and Chile. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.
Hickman Jr., Cleveland P., Zimmerman, Todd L. and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2000). Guía de campo de los crustáceos de Galápagos: guía de campo illustrada sobre los balanos, camarones, langostas y crangrejos comunes de las islas Galápagos. Lexington, VA, USA: Sugar Spring Press.
Merlen, Godfrey and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (1999). El Reino Del Galapago: Volviendo A Su Edad De Oro. Quito, Ecuador: Fundación Charles Darwin.
Hickman, Cleveland P. and Rojas Lizana, Isolda (1998). Guía de campo sobre estrellas de mar y otros equinodermos de Galápagos. Lexington, VA, USA: Sugar Spring Press.
Jackson, Michael H. and Rojas Lizana, Isolda (1997). Galapagos: Una Historia Natural. Calgary, AB, Canada: University of Calgary Press.
Book Chapters
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.
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
Hubbell, Amy L., Akagawa, Natsuko, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Preface. Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. v-vi) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
Hubbell, Amy L., Rojas-Lizana, Sol , Akagawa, Natsuko and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 1-12) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2019). Citizen voices in the visitor book of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile. Ottawa Hispanic Studies 28: An open dialogue on democracy and citizen empowerment in the Latin-American context: Our voices. (pp. 17-40) edited by Ana M. Fernandez. Ottawa, Canada: Alter/Lugar Comun.
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2017). Who is asking the questions? Using co-constructed interviews in the study of perceived discrimination from a discourse analytical perspective. Narrative research in practice: stories from the field. (pp. 159-181) edited by Rachael Dwyer, Ian Davis and elke emerald. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-1579-3_8
Journal Articles
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
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2023). Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile. Memory Studies. doi: 10.1177/17506980231195570
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Niveri, Roxanne Lizelle and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2019). ‘Changes’ to the new Japanese-Language Proficiency Test: Newly emerged language policies for non-Japanese and Japanese citizens. electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (ejcjs), 19 (3) 8.
Cordella, Marisa and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2019). Aging and migration: the value of familism for Spanish speakers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 35 (1), 99-109. doi: 10.1007/s10823-019-09389-1
Rojas-Lizana, Sol, Tolton, Laura and Hannah, Emily (2018). "Kiss me on the lips, for I love you," Over A Century of Heterosexism in the Spanish Translation of Oscar Wilde. International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, 6 (2) 2, 9-18. doi: 10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.2p.9
Dolhare, Maria Itati and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2017). The indigenous concept of Vivir Bien in the Bolivian legal field: a decolonial proposal. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1017/jie.2017.31
Dieckmann, Cristy and Isolda Rojas-Lizana (2016). The pragmatics of legal advice services in a community legal centre in Australia: domination or facilitation?. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 23 (2), 167-193. doi: 10.1558/ijsll.v23i2.20291
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2015). “A very big thank you to…”: Letters of gratitude in local newspapers from Australia and Chile. Languages in Contrast, 15 (2), 251-279. doi: 10.1075/lic.15.2.05roj
Hoang, Thi Van Yen and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2015). Promotional discourse in the websites of two Australian universities: a discourse analytic approach. Cogent Education, 2 (1) 1011488, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/2331186X.2015.1011488
Reid, Alison and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2014). Seguridad cultural para las madres indigenas mesoamericanas. Una exploracion de las Epistemologias del sur con el Códice florentino como guia. Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, 15 (2).
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2014). Mental illness, dementia and family in China, by Guy Ramsay. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 1-2. doi: 10.1080/17542863.2014.894544
Pohlman, Annie, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Jamarani, Maryam (2014). Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3749
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2014). Perceived discrimination in LGBTIQ discourse from Australia: a typology of verbal discrimination. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1). doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3303
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda and Hannah, Emily (2013). Manipulacion del genero gramatical y sexual en la traduccion espanola de un cuento de Oscar Wilde. Babel, 59 (3), 310-331. doi: 10.1075/babel.59.3.04roj
Mendez de Sifontes, Isabel and Rojas Lizana, Isolda (2013). An error analysis of persistent grammatical errors carried over from beginner to intermediate Spanish. Revista Electronica de Linguistica Aplicada, 12 (1), 63-85.
Garcia-Sanchez, Soraya and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2012). Bridging the language and cultural gaps: the use of blogs. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 (3), 361-381. doi: 10.1080/1475939X.2012.719396
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2012). Eterio Pajares Infante: La traduccion de la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII. Babel: International Journal of Translation, 58 (2), 247-249.
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2012). The translation of English novels in the XVIII century. Babel: Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation, 58 (2), 247-249. doi: 10.1075/babel.58.2.09roj
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2011). Justifying and condemning sexual discrimination in everyday discourse: Letters to the Editor in the Australian local press. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (2), 663-676. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.007
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda, Arroyo-Furphy, Susana and Esposto, Roberto H. (2009). Reglas de abreviatura en el diario de un monje español en Australia. JILAR Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 15 (1), 99-115. doi: 10.1080/13260219.2009.9649904
Rojas-Lizana, I. (2008). Review of La cortesia en el mundo hispanico: Nuevos contextos, nuevos enfoques metodologicos by Martina Schrader-Kniffki (ed.). Spanish in Context, 5 (2), 315-318.
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2008). The courtesy in the Hispanic world: New contexts, new methodological approaches. Spanish in Context, 5 (2), 315-318. doi: 10.1075/sic.5.2.10roj
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda R. and Arroyo-Furphy, Susana (2005). La cortesia: un fenomeno pragmatico. Razon y Palabra, 11 (48).
Conference Papers
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.
Rojas-Lizana, I. R. and Arroyo-Furphy, S. (2005). Estrategias de cortesa en cartas de agradecimiento: Un fenmeno pragmtico: Cartas al director en dos peridicos chilenos. VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios del Discurso: America Latina en su Discurso, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, 5-9 September, 2005. Santiago, Chile: Asociacion Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED).
Thesis
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2007). Letters to the editor in the local press : genre and discourse in everyday texts from Australia and Chile. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/158645