People
Teaching and research staff within Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.
An alphabetical list of staff profiles can be found below.
Room numbers, email addresses, and telephone extensions can be found in the staff directory.
Staff
Dr Ignacio Aguiló
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Race in contemporary Latin American culture; popular culture and kitsch; visual culture; popular music; decolonial/post-development theory; digital anthropology.
Ms Mayte Álvarez-Madrigal
Language Tutor in Spanish
Dr David Bailey
Lecturer in Portuguese Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Lusophone literatures; the 19th century; queer and postcolonial studies; urban and popular culture.
Dr Malena Bedoya
Research Associate for the project Comics and Race in Latin America.
Dr Luis Castellví Laukamp
Lecturer in Spanish Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Early Modern Spain and Latin America; Hispanic Baroque poetry and painting; crónicas de Indias; Filipino literature and history; postcolonial studies; critical race theory; literary translation.
Ms Mercè Enjuanes Vázquez
Language Tutor in Spanish
Dr José Peixoto Coelho de Souza
Senior Language Tutor in Portuguese
Specialisms: Language teaching materials development; the use of songs in language teaching; Portuguese as an Additional Language teaching; literomusical literacy.
Dr Francisco A Eissa-Barroso
Senior Lecturer in Latin American History
Specialisms: Early Modern Spanish world; political history; Early Bourbons; Atlantic lives; imperial history; networks; military officers; history of political thought.
Ms Macarena Garcia
Ramon Llull Catalan and Spanish Language Tutor
Dr Valentino Gianuzzi
Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies
Specialisms: César Vallejo; Latin American literary and pictorial avant-gardes; Latin American magazines and print culture; Peruvian literature; literary translation.
Ms Blanca González-Valencia
Senior Language Tutor in Spanish
Specialisms: Audiovisual translation; translation and contextualisation in the FL classroom; the adaptation of audiovisual products.
Ms Alhucema Lara-López
Language Tutor in Spanish
Specialisms: Linguistics applied to teaching Spanish as a foreign language.
Dr Samuel Llano
Senior Lecturer in Spanish Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Urban studies; transnationalism; sound studies; music; cultural history.
Dr Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano
Senior Language Tutor in Spanish (Language Coordinator)
Specialisms: theatre studies; pedagogy and methodology with a special interest in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP); Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); mediation and interculturality; Problem-Based Learning (PBL); Education for Sustainable Development (ESD); the use of literature and ICT in language teaching.
Ms Beatriz Macia Vega
Language Tutor in Spanish
Specialisms: Foreign Language Teaching with a special interest in pragmatics, motivational strategies and self- evaluation; Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
Dr Ana Niño
Senior Language Tutor in Spanish
Prof Karl Posso
Professor of Latin American Studies
Specialisms: Brazilian (and Latin American) art; 20th-century and contemporary Spanish American and Brazilian literature, culture and ethics; critical theory.
Dr Joe Quick
PDRA – Project Indigenous Youth Cultures and New Media in Latin America
Prof Lúcia Sá
Professor in Brazilian Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Brazilian literature and culture; the city in Brazil and Spanish America from 19th-century to the present; ethnopoetics and native cultures in Brazil and South American lowlands; racism in the plural: prejudice against native peoples in Brazil.
Dr James Scorer
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Latin American cultural studies; Latin American literature and visual culture; Latin American comics work; urban imaginaries and urban history.
Dr Carlos Van Tongeren
Lecturer in Spanish Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Memory in post-totalitarian cultures; flamenco and memory in post-Franco Spain; intellectual history of melancholy.
Dr Sandra Torres
Senior Language Tutor in Spanish
Emeritus staff
Prof Hilary Owen
Professor Emerita of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies
Specialisms: Portuguese, Mozambican and Brazilian women's writing; feminism, gender studies and postcolonial theory; Lusophone cultural studies.