■ AHGBI Publication Award - best doctoral thesis in Hispanism across Great Britain and Ireland (2025)
■ AHGBI Postgraduate Conference Award (2024, 2020).
■ British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Postgraduate Conference Award (2024).
■ AHRC Doctoral Scholarship, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – full tuition, fees, and living expenses (2019-2024, pro rata).
■ Clarendon Fund MSt Scholarship, University of Oxford – full tuition, fees, and living expenses (2017-18).
■ Arteaga Prize, University of Oxford - top of cohort across all Spanish finals (2017)
■ Ramón Silva Prize, University of Oxford - top of cohort in Spanish oral examinations (2017)
■ Distinction in Oral Examination, University of Oxford - Spanish and Portuguese (2017).
■ Distinction for Extended Essay (Undergraduate Dissertation), University of Oxford: El secreto de todo no existe: (Ir)realidades documentadas en La piedra oscura de Alberto Conejero. Supervised by Prof. Xon de Ros (2017).
■ Wadham College, University of Oxford, Undergraduate Scholarship for academic merit (2016, 2015, 2014).
■ Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford (2015).
■ Heath Harrison Junior Travelling Scholarship, University of Oxford (2014).
■ Double distinction in Preliminary Examination, University of Oxford (2014).
■ Unconditional offer, University of Oxford (2013).

■ ‘Travel, Interrupted: Stasis and Early Modern Spain at Yu Fest and BITEF (1993)’, Modern Language Review 121.2 (forthcoming, 2026), 127-157.
■ ‘Teatro de la Resistencia’s GRAD: Autobiographical theatre and its limits’, International Journal of Iberian Studies (forthcoming, 2026).
■ Pablo Messiez, The Eyes, trans. by Alma Prelec and Maria Bastianes (Cambridge: MHRA New Translations, 2024).  
■ Review of Jovanovic, Zeljko, ‘Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia’, in Modern Language Review, 118.2 (2023), 271-272.  
■‘From Golden Age to Civil War: Stages of Spain in Yugoslavia,’ in Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performance in Iberian and Transnational Contexts, eds. Maria del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández and Jonathan Thacker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023), 203-220. 
■ Alma Prelec and Emily Di Dodo, eds. ‘On Forgetting’, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 17 (2022).  
■ Hayley O’Kell and Alma Prelec, eds. ‘Desire’, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 16 (2021).  

in progress:

Spain and Yugoslavia on the Transnational Stage (monograph, under contract with Legenda/MHRA).

public writing:

‘On Lone Borders: Juan Mayorga’s Los Yugoslavos’, Review, The Theatre Times, 25 June 2025.

‘Vanya is Alive is both play and witness statement’, Review (with Kitty Brandon-James), The Theatre Times, 5 August 2023.

‘Power Politics on Campus: Laura Kipnis’ Unwanted Advances’ , The Oxford Magazine, no. 408, Second Week, Trinity Term, 2019.

■ ‘Travelling across the Grey Zone: Bridging the Perpetrator/Victim Divide in Donde el bosque se espesa (2017)’. International Theatre and Performance Network (ITPN), University of Cork, 23-24 June 2026.
■ ‘From Belgrade to Madrid via Paris: Ibero-Yugoslav Connections in the 1950s’. Panel: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Way: Memory of Yugoslav Transnational Solidarity with the International Left’, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington DC, 20-23 Nov 2025.
■ ‘Remembering the Spanish Civil War in 1990s Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia’. Round table: ‘Fictional Realities and Constructive Imaginaries.’ Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston Marriott Copley, 20-24 Nov 2024.
■ ‘“The problematic limit”: Paralysis in a Yugoslav Fuenteovjeuna’. International Theatre and Performance Network (ITPN), London Senate House, 26-28 June 2024.
■ ‘Nasi Spanci’ on Stage: Yugoslav Theatre about the Spanish Civil War. Round table: ‘On Monuments, Graffiti, Films, and Plays that Refuse to Go’, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 5-7 April 2024. Nominated as BASEES delegate; Postgraduate Award.
■ ‘Rafael Alberti in Yugoslavia: An unofficial premiere of Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado.’AHGBI Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, 25-26 March 2024. Winner of Postgraduate Conference Award.
■ ‘Don Juan, Partizan? Tirso de Molina in the Yugoslav Wars’ Oxford Golden Age Symposium, University of Oxford, 12 March 2024.
■ ‘Fuenteovejuna Without a Revolution: A Yugoslav Reinterpretation (1993)’. Oxford Golden Age Symposium, Merton College, University of Oxford, 16 May 2023.
■ ‘¿Verdadero o falso?: Teatro de la Resistencia's GRAD and the autobiographer as trickster’. AHGBI Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 17 – 18 April 2023.
■ ‘Multidirectional Memory and Theatre of Civil War: Transnational Entanglements’. Logic, Limits, Contingency, EXC Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin, 27-30 March 2023. 
■ Round Table, 2022 Salzburg Global Seminar, Who Owns the Past, 6 – 8 April 2022.
■ ‘“Me he acordado de ti, y aquí estoy”: Staging Spain in the Former Yugoslavia’. Sub-Faculty of Spanish Research Seminars, University of Oxford. 30 November 2021. (by invitation) 
■ ‘From Sarajevo to Spain: Voices under Siege’. AHGBI Annual Conference, Online, 29 – 31 March 2021.
■ ‘Dangerous waters: Liquid and Agency in Memorias de Leticia Valle’. AHGBI Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 30 March – 1 April 2020. AHGBI Conference Award.(cancelled due to COVID-19)
■ ‘El activismo social y la (re)creación del pasado: Teatro español en los balcanes’. Congreso Internacional Performa, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 27-29 November 2019.
■  ‘Let’s talk about you, not me’: ¡Ay, Carmela! and the Spanish Civil War in postwar Yugoslavia’. AHGBI Annual Conference, University of Durham, 8-10 April 2019. 
■ ‘Teatro (breve) bajo la arena’: Lorca in “dialogue” with Cervantes.’ XVIII Forum for Iberian Studies, University of Oxford, 20 - 21 June 2018.
■ ‘El secreto de todo no existe: (ir)realidades documentadas en La piedra oscura de Alberto Conejero.’ XXV
■ Seminario Internacional del SELITEN@T, UNED Madrid, 27-29 June 2016. Available at https://canal.uned.es/video/5a6f63c8b1111f55238b45e6.

At Central:

• Postgraduate supervision

• Film Studies – European cinema (MA Acting for Screen)

At Oxford:

• FHS Paper VII: Period of Literature 1543-1695 (especially: Lope de Vega, Tirso, Calderón, Alarcón)

• FHS Paper VIII: Period of Literature 1811-present (Peninsular prose and poetry; several authors)

• FHS Paper XI: Modern Authors (Federico García Lorca) 

  FHS Paper XII: Mexican, Argentine, and Spanish cinema

• Prelims and FHS Papers I and II: Unseen Translation and Essay in Spanish

• Prelims Paper III: Introduction to Literary Texts (Cervantes, Calderón, Machado, Vargas Llosa)

• Prelims Paper III, modified syllabus: Introduction to Hispanic Prose (Cervantes, Matute, Campobello, Carpentier)

• Prelims Paper XI: Introduction to Hispanic Film Studies

English, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Portuguese (fluent)
French and Russian (advanced)