Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Overview of Teaching and Research Areas of Spanish and Portuguese Staff
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Medieval
Dr Elizabeth Drayson (Libro de buen amor, legend of the King Roderic and La Cava)Dr Louise Haywood (Medieval literature and culture, inter-ethnic cultures in contact)
Dr Andreea Weisl-Shaw (Short narrative, exemplarity, humour)
Golden Age
Dr Rodrigo Cacho (Quevedo, satire, transmission of culture)Dr Rosemary Clark (Spain and Africa, cross-cultural encounters)
Dr Elizabeth Drayson (Moriscos, cultural history)
Modern Peninsular and Cultural Analysis
Dr Rosemary Clark (Spain and Africa, colonies and protectorates, masculinities theory and visualisation)Dr Stuart Davis (Juan Goytisolo, post-1975 narrative, museum and memory studies)
Dr Dominic Keown (Catalan culture)
Professor Alison Sinclair (19th- and 20th-century culture, intellectual history, psychoanalysis)
Film and Media Studies
Dr Geoffrey Kantaris (Latin American urban cinema, post-dictatorship Argentine cinema)Dr Dominic Keown (Catalan cinema and literature)
Dr Rory O'Bryen (Colombian and Latin American cinema)
Dr Joanna Page (Argentine and Latin American cinema)
Ms Erica Segre ('Golden Age' Mexican film, cinematography, multimedia art)
Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa
Dr Louise Haywood (Medieval lyric)Mrs Helen Lima de Sousa (19th, 20th and 21st-Century Brazilian Literature and Society)
Prof Manucha Lisboa (19th- and 20th-century Portuguese and Brazilian literature and visual arts, comparative literature)
Dr Ana Margarida Martins (20th-century Portuguese and Mozambican women's writing; feminism; gender studies; postcolonial theory and Lusophone cultural studies)
Dr Ioanna Sitaridou (Comparative and historical syntax of the Romance languages and Latin)
Hispanic Language and Linguistics
Dr Angeles Carreres (Language learning and teaching, use of new technologies)Dr María Noriega-Sánchez (Language learning and teaching, use of new technologies)
Dr Ioanna Sitaridou (Comparative and historical syntax of the Romance languages and Latin)
Translation Studies
Dr Angeles Carreres (Post-structuralist translation theory, pedagogy of translation)Dr Elizabeth Drayson (Medieval and Early Modern translation theory)
Dr Louise Haywood (Medieval translation, pedagogy of translation)
Latin American Literature and Culture
Prof Steven Boldy (Modern Latin American Literature, Cortázar, Fuentes, Borges)Dr Geoffrey Kantaris (Urban cinema, women's writing and dictatorship)
Dr Rory O'Bryen (Post-'Boom' Spanish American fiction, Colombian literature and history, Testimonio, the Spanish American short story, Critical Theory)
Dr Joanna Page (Argentine literature and cinema)
Ms Erica Segre (19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, the visual arts and photography from the 19th to the present day)
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