Spanish staff profiles

Pascale Baker

Head of Portuguese Studies

Banditry in Latin American literature and culture from the 19th century to the present, narco-culture and narco-literature, cultural representations of women bandits, rebels and fighters in Latin America, masculinities and violence in Latin American literature.

Diana Battaglia

On leave 2024/25

Latin American literature, especially Cuban literature; the relationship between contemporary cultural production, cultural identity and society in Cuba; Spanish and Latin American detective fiction, and the representation of cultural memory and cultural identity in crime fiction.

Katherine Brown

Javier Carpes Salar

Eva Bru-Dominguez

Head of Spanish | Sustainability Officer

Contemporary Visual culture, performance art and dance with a particular interest in Catalan artists. Focus of attention is the body and matter.

Mary Farrelly

Erasmus Incoming | College VP for EDI

Gender, mysticism, and spirituality in contemporary Spanish cultural production, particularly in film and theatre.

Paul McAleer

Relationship between visual and written mediums and hybrid cultural forms, with focus on the relationship between comedy and narratives of identity as well as comic books and the representation of indigenous identity, contemporary 'urban' Latin American literature and indigenous literatures

Tara Plunkett

Coordinator BA Modern Languages

Surrealism in Spain and Mexico; the historical avant-gardes; visual cultures; gender studies; hybrid bodies/identities; the 1927 Generation in Spain.

María Ana Rodíguez

Julio Sanz

Matthew Hilborn

PostDoc in Spanish

Contemporary European cinema (Spanish and British), Humour studies / Humour theory, Screening sex, romance, and courtship practices, International distribution of screen media, Media industries (policy, global media)