Senior Lecturer in Spanish

Tel: 0113 343 3528
Email: r.m.cleminson@leeds.ac.uk

BA (Salford)
PhD (UWE, Bristol)

Research Interests

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

Major Publications

• Anarquismo y sexualidad (España, 1900-1939) (Cadiz: University of Cadiz, 2008).
• Los Invisibles’: A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007) (with F. Vázquez García)
• Techno-Sexual Landscapes: Changing Relations between Technology and Sexuality (London : Free Association Books, 2004) (with Ángel Gordo López)
• La educación intercultural. Un reto en el presente de Europa/Intercultural Education: A Present-Day Challenge for Europe (Madrid: Comunidad de Madrid, 2002) (Ana Carmen del Canto, Angel Gordo López & Antonio Muñoz Sedano (eds.))
• Anarchism, Science and Sex: Eugenics in Eastern Spain , 1900-1937 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000).
• Anarquismo y homosexualidad (Madrid: Huerga y Fierro, 1995)

Special Journal Editions

• “Alternative Discourses in Early Twentieth-century Spain: Intellectuals, Diseent and Sub-cultures of Mind and Body”, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXI(6), 2004 (with Alison Sinclair)
• “Anarchism and Sexuality”, Anarchist Studies, 8, 2000.

Articles and Chapters

• "Breasts, Hormones and Hair: The Anatomy of Gender Difference in Spain, 1880-1940", Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXVI(5), 2009, 627-652 (with F. Vázquez García)
• "Eugenics without the state: anarchism in Catalonia, 1900–1937”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39, 2008, pp. 232-239.
• “‘La antorcha extinguida’, la Bohemia y la disidencia sexual en España, principios del siglo XX”, in “Espais de Bohèmia. Actrius, Cupletistes i ballarines”, Dossiers Feministes (Castellón), 10, 2008, pp. 51-60
• “El nacimiento del invertido criminal en la España contemporánea (1850-1931)”, in L. R. Ruiz & M. J. Ruiz (eds.), Arte y crimen. Amores, pasiones, creación y destrucción (Cadiz: Diputación de Cádiz, 2007), pp. 37-45
• "‘“ A century of civilization under the influence of eugenics”: Dr. Enrique Diego Madrazo, socialism and scientific progress’", Dynamis, 26, 2006, pp. 221-251.
• "‘Instancias de biopolítica en España, siglos XX y XXI’", in J. Ugarte (ed), La administración de la vida: Estudios biopolíticos, (Rubí Anthropos), 2005, pp. 127-152.
• "Making Sense of the Body: Anarchism, Nudism and Subjective Experience", Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXI (6), 2004, pp. 697-716.
• "The Significance of the ‘Fairy’for the Cultural Archaeology of Same-Sex Male Desire in Spain, 1850-1930", Sexualities, 7(4), 2004, pp. 412-429.
• "El libro Homosexualidad del Dr. Martín de Lucenay: entre el conocimiento científico y la recepción pública de la ciencia sexológica en España a principios del siglo XX", Hispania. Revista Española de Historia , 218, 2004, pp. 961-986.

Currently researching towards the writing of a book on the science of hermaphroditism in Spain (with Francisco Vázquez García).

• External Examiner for Undergraduate Spanish, University of Salford, 2005-2009
• MRes or PhD External Examinerships: University of Cadiz (2005, 2007), University of Glamorgan (2005), University of Oviedo (2007), University of Glamorgan (2008), La Laguna University, Gran Canaria (2009)
• Associate Editor, Anarchist Studies.

Was Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of the History of Medicine and Pathological Anatomy at the University of Granada, 2003-4.

• Wellcome Trust Award in the History of Medicine, 2002-3
• Male, Female or In-Between? The Science of Hermaphroditism in Spain, 1850-1960, AHRC Research Leave, September-December 2007.

• SPPO1042 The Historical Development of Spain and Latin America
• SPPO2390 and SPPO2391 Spain Under Franco Regime, 1939-1975 (Co-ordinator)
• SPPO3360 The Regulation of Sexuality in Spain and Latin America (Co-ordinator)
• GEND5106M Que(e)rying Sexualities (MA Module in Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory)

• History of Sexuality
• Spanish Cultural Studies
• Anarchism, theory and practice.

• Research Postgraduate Tutor.