Staff and other profiles

Academic & Teaching staff

Gregorio Alonso, Lecturer

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Research ranges from the study of political and religious conflicts in Modern Europe to the making of the liberal and the Catholic traditions during the nineteenth Century. View full profile

Antonio Martínez Arboleda, Principal Teaching Fellow

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Antonio teaches and coordinates several modules in Spanish and he is currently working on two research projects on Student Education funded by SCORE (HFCE) and JISC. View full profile

Manuel Barcia Paz, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

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African slavery and slave trade in the Atlantic World. Forms of slave resistance in the Americas (particularly the Spanish Caribbean and Brazil). Contemporary Latin American History. View full profile

Richard Cleminson, Reader

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History of Sexuality in Spain, 1850 to the present; the anarchist movement in Spain; the history of homosexuality, eugenics, nudism, technology and sexuality and hermaphroditism. View full profile

Stephanie Dennison, Reader in Brazilian Studies

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Brazilian cinema post-1960, especially popular/exploitation films, race and sexuality. World Cinema, especially new definitions, popular cinema, Third Cinema theory and national cinemas. View full profile

David Frier, Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese

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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in Portuguese, specifically with respect to the historical and intellectual contexts in both Portuguese and wider European literary traditions. View full profile

Paul Garner, Cowdray Professor of Spanish

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The history of Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (especially Porfiriato and Revolution 1876-1920). View full profile

Stuart Green, Lecturer in Spanish Theatre and Film

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Stuart lectures on Spanish theatre, cinema and music. His current research project explores how the performing arts contend with immigration, multiculturalism and the ethnic identity of Spain. View full profile

Bettina Hermoso Gomez, Teaching Fellow

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The effective use of new technologies in the language classroom; web 2.0 technologies in language teaching; blended learning; the role of women in contemporary Spanish cinema. View full profile

Cara Levey, Teaching Fellow in Latin American Studies

Main research and teaching interests include Latin American human rights violations, political violence and transitional truth and justice, as well as the politics of memory in Argentina and Uruguay. View full profile

Sofia Martinho, Language Teaching Fellow in Portuguese

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Language Teaching Fellow in Portuguese and Director of the Instituto Camões Centre for Portuguese Language. View full profile

Paul Melo e Castro, Lecturer in Portuguese

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Lecturer in Portuguese Studies View full profile

Jeremy Munday, Professor of Translation Studies

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Translation studies, translation theory, discourse analysis, appraisal theory, ideology in the translation of political speeches, cognitive translation studies, history of translation View full profile

Juan Munoz Lopez, Language Teaching Fellow in Spanish

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Academic interests include new teaching/learning approaches, material creation and development, pragmatics and non-verbal communication. View full profile

Lúcia Nagib, Centenary Professor of World Cinemas

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World Cinema, cinematic realism, intermediality, new waves and new cinemas, Brazilian cinema, Japanese cinema, German Cinema. View full profile

Thea Pitman, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies

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Dr Pitman works on Latin American cultural production; especially Mexican and Chicana/o materials. Her current work focuses on Latin American cyberculture and the expression of Latin American-ness. View full profile

Roberto Rodriguez-Saona, Teaching Fellow

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Latin American literature, particularly Peruvian literature. Urban Landscape in contemporary Peruvian literature. View full profile

Angel Smith, Reader in Modern Spanish History

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Social and political conflict in early twentieth-century Spain, nationalisms and nation identities, and especially the origins and rise of Catalan nationalism between the 1830s and 1930s. View full profile

Duncan Wheeler, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

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Golden Age drama and prose fiction; Hispanic and European cinema(s); translation; contemporary Spanish culture and politics; twentieth-century Spanish theatre; gender and sexuality. View full profile