Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Samuel Llano is a cultural historian who specialises in the music, theatre and performance cultures of Spain. His work explores how these genres help to articulate a variety of social discourses and forms of identification, and shape Spain’s relations with other countries. His current research deals with stage representations of wrongdoing in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spain, and, more particularly, with constructions of the Don Juan myth in theatre, opera and zarzuela. This resarch forms part of the AHRC-funded project “Wrongdoing in Spain 1800-1936: Realities, Representations, Reactions,” directed by Professor Alison Sinclair. Llano’s previous work deals with representations of Spanish music and culture in early-twentieth century Paris, and questions of identity in Spanish Republican exile. Llano has published on these subjects in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana and various collective volumes. His monograph Whose Spain?: Music, Identity and the Hispanistes in Paris, 1909-1929 will be published by Oxford University Press in 1912. Profile at Academia.edu: http://cambridge.academia.edu/SamuelLlano