Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Academic & Teaching staff
Dr Duncan Wheeler
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
0113 343 3514
BA (University of Oxford)
MA (University of Oxford)
M.St. (University of Oxford)
D.Phil. (University of Oxford)
Research Interests
Duncan read Spanish and Philosophy at the University of Oxford (2000-2004), where he subsequently completed his masters (2004-2005) and doctoral thesis (2005-2009). He has a variety of research interests but they tend to be united by a continual preoccupation with the interrelationship between cultural institutions, art, politics and memory in contemporary Spain. He arrived in Leeds in 2009 and was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship in 2010. Its primary research output will be Duncan's second single-authored mongraph (provisionally titled 'The Role of Arts and Cultural Institutions in Spain's Transition to Democracy'), and two dual-language critical editions. On the completion of this fellowship in 2012, he will re-join the faculty as a lecturer in Spanish, and welcomes proposals from post-graduate students in the following areas: Golden Age Drama and Prose Fiction; Hispanic and European cinema(s); Translation; Contemporary Spanish Culture and Politics;Twentieth-century Spanish Theatre; Gender and Sexuality.
Major Publications
Single-Authored Monographs
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain: The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012).
Dual-Language Critical Editions
Alonso de Santos, José Luis. Bajarse al moro/Going Down to Morocco, trans. and intro. Duncan Wheeler (Oxford: Oxbow, 2012).
Various Authors, Spanish Songs of the Transition, trans. and intro. Duncan Wheeler (Oxford: Oxbow, 2013).
Edited Books
Canet, Fernando and Duncan Wheeler (eds.), New Trends in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Bristol: Intellect, 2013).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
'At the crossroads of tradition and modernity: Raphael and the politics of popular music in Spain', Journal of European Popular Culture, (2013), forthcoming.
'Contextualising and contesting José Antonio Maravall's theories of baroque culture from the perspective of modern-day performance', Bulletin of the Comediantes, 64.1 (2012), in press.
'The representation of domestic violence in Spanish cinema', Modern Language Review, 107.2 (2012), 438-500.
'From the town with more theaters than taxis: Calderón, Lope and Tirso at the 2008 Almagro Festival (part two)', Comedia Performance, 9.1 (2012), 102-142.
'From the town with more theaters than taxis: Calderón, Lope and Tirso at the 2008 Almagro Festival (part one)', Comedia Performance, 8.1 (2011), 151-200.
'All about Almodóvar?: All About My Mother on the London stage', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 87.7 (2010), 821-41.
'The representation of domestic violence in popular English-language cinema', New Cinemas (Journal of Contemporary Film), 7.2 (2009), 155-75.
'Godard's list: why Spielberg and Auschwitz are number one', Media History, 15.2 (2009), 185-203.
'Intimate partner abuse in Spain (1975-2006)', Cuestiones de género, 3 (2008), 173-204.
'The performance history of Golden-Age drama in Spain (1939-2006)', Bulletin of the Comediantes, 60.2 (2008), 119-155.
'We are living in a material world and I am a material girl: Diana, Countess of Belflor, materialised on the page, stage and screen', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 84.3 (2007), 267-286.
Book Chapters
'A Catalan in New York: Elegy (Isabel Coixet, 2008) as a case study of Spanish auteur theory' in New Trends in Contemporary Spanish Cinema, eds. Fernando Canet and Duncan Wheeler (Bristol: Intellect, 2013), forthcoming.
'Beyond the black legend of Calderón's wife murder-plays: amorous strife, violence and the comedia' in On Wolves and Sheep: Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain, ed. Aaron Kahn (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 113-146.
'¿La película duende?: María Teresa León, Rafael Alberti and alternative traditions of resurrecting Golden Age drama' in Stages of Exile, ed. Helena Buffery (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011), 71-93.
'A modern-day Fénix?: Lope's cinematic revivals', in A Companion to Lope de Vega, eds. Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker, (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008), 285-299.
Articles in Practitioners' Magazines/Journals
'Lo que entendemos por cine español’, Academia: revista de la Academia de Cine, April (2011), 21-23.
'La presencia del teatro español en la cartelera inglesa durante el siglo XXI', Contraviento, 8 (2009), 18-21.
Other
Contributor: The Literary Encyclopedia.
Book Reviews: Bulletin of Spanish Studies; New Cinemas.
Theatre Reviews: Comedia Performance.
Conference Papers, Invited Lectures and Public Engagement
'Domestic violence in Early Modern Spain', Public Lecture, Instituto Cervantes, Sydney, 16 June 2012.
'Music censorship in Spain', Invited Paper, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 23 May 2012.
'Pepe Estruch and the performance of Golden Age drama: a case study of transatlantic relationships under Franco, and their influence on democratic theatrical cultures', AHGBI Conference, University of Stirling, 2-4 April 2012.
'A Catalan in New York: Elegy (Isabel Coixet, 2008) as a case study of Spanish auteur theory', Contemporary Spanish Cinema Conference, New York, 12-16 December 2011.
'Mirando hacia atrás para seguir adelante: la puesta en escena de la comedia en España desde 1939, y la creación de un Lope para el siglo XXI', Invited Paper, CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, Lope de Vega: Reescrituras desde el siglo XX, 1-2 December 2011.
'At the crossroads of tradition and modernity: Raphael and the politics of mass culture in 1960s Spain', University of Leeds, PCRN First Symposium on European Popular Musics, 13 June 2011.
'Spanish legislation and approaches to domestic violence as a social disease: an example to follow or an error to avoid?', Wakefield District NHS Primary Care Trust, Ongoing Professional Training for Public Health Practitioners, 30 March 2011.
'Beyond the black legend of Calderón's wife murder-plays: amorous strife, violence and the comedia', Invited Paper, University of Oxford, Department of Spanish Research Seminar, 25 January 2011.
'Introductory talk to screening of Hable con ella' Opera North, Leeds, 14 January 2011.
'The comedia and the culture of the baroque', Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, 6-9 January 2011.
'Golden Age drama in exile', Invited Paper, University of Cork, Hispanic Studies Research Seminar, 17 December 2010.
'Think locally, sell globally: tracing the intertextual references in Todo sobre mi madre in the Spanish context', AHGBI Conference, King's College, London, 12-14 April 2010.
'Ways of performing national classical drama in Spain', Invited Paper, Out of The Wings Symposium, University of Oxford, 18-19 March 2010.
'The representation of domestic violence in Spanish cinema', University of Leeds, SPLAS Research Seminar, 3 February 2010.
¿Imágenes violentas?: la representación de la violencia de género en el cine inglés y estadounidense', Public Lecture, Universitat de Valencia, 15 December 2009.
'The ones that got away: Maria Teresa León, La dama duende and "anti-Spanish" cinematic adaptations of Golden Age drama', Invited Paper, University of Birmingham, Study of Hispanic Exile Research Seminar, 23 October 2009.
'Too much too soon or too little too late: placing new Spanish legislation on gender based violence in context', Public Lecture, University of Oxford Women's Campaign, 9 June 2008.
External Positions
Subject Editor (Peninsular Spain): The Literary Encyclopedia.
Reviews Editor: New Cinemas (Journal of Contemporary Film).
Peer Reviewer: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies; Hispanic Research Journal; New Cinemas; European Journal of European Popular Culture.
Translator: Royal Shakespeare Company
Reader: Cambridge University Press; Manchester University Press.
External Referee, European Doctorate: Universities of Complutense, Madrid and Valencia
Founding Member: Últimas Tendencias Escénicas de los clásicos españoles (UTECE) research group.
Major Research Projects and Grants
Leverhulme Research Fellowship - £58,000, 2010-2012
Sir George Labouchere Fund for Spanish Studies (£5,000), 2008-2009
De Osma Studentship, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University and Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid (£3,250), 2008
Abbey-Santander Academic Travel Grant (£500), 2008
Scatcherd European Scholarship (£3,250), 2008
AHRC Doctoral Award (Full - Fees plus maintenance grant), 2006-2008
AHRC Travel Award (£1,500), 2006
Hargreaves-Mawdsley Research Scholarship, Wolfson College (£5,000), 2005-2006
Fieldler Travel Grant, University of Oxford (£300), 2005
AHRB, Research Preparation Masters Award (Full - Fees plus maintenance grant), 2004-2005
Kolkhorst Exhibition, University of Oxford, 2004.
Teaching
SPPO2640/41: Things Can Only Get Better: The Role of the Arts and Cultural Policy in Spain's Transition to Democracy (Co-ordinator)
SPPO3550: Sex, Art, Commerce and Censorship: Cinematic and Theatrical Adaptations in Modern-Day Spain (Co-ordinator).
Postgraduate Research Supervision
Golden Age Drama and Prose Fiction
Hispanic and European cinema(s)
Translation
Contemporary Spanish Culture and Politics
Twentieth-century Spanish Theatre
Gender and Sexuality
School Responsibilities / Affiliations
Executive Committee Member, Centre for World Cinemas
Joint Co-ordinator, European Popular Musics Cluster
Member, SMLC Cultural Studies Research Group
Member, SMLC Literary Studies Research Group