HISPANIC STUDIES - MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT, SCHOOL OF ARTS

Academic Research Interests ~ Hispanic Studies Staff

Prof. David J George, B.A., Ph.D.
Professor George's main academic interests are Catalan and Spanish theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and contemporary Catalan theatre and performance.
d.j.george@swansea.ac.uk

Prof. D Gareth Walters, B.A., Ph.D. 
Professor Walters is currently preparing a study on Quevedo and Paracelsus, and is also undertaking a comparative study of Antonio Machado and Yeats.  He is also engaged in a long-term project involving a verse-translation of the poetry of Salvador Espriu.
d.g.walters@swansea.ac.uk

Prof. Derek H Gagen, B.A.
Professor Gagen's academic interests focus mainly on poetry and drama of Spain in the twentieth century, particularly Rafael Alberti and Antonio Buero Vallejo, but he has also published on Unamuno, Antonio Machado, García Lorca, Gerardo Diego, Luis Cernuda, and Blas de Otero.
d.h.gagen@swan.ac.uk

    Spanish film, Theatre and Literature in the Twentieth Century. Essays in honour of Derek Gagen

Prof. Robert Stone B.A., PhD. 
Professor Stone's main research interest is the contextual and structural analysis of European, Spanish, Basque and Latin American cinema. He is also engaged in research in the areas of film theory and twentieth-century Spanish cultural and literary studies.
r.a.stone@swansea.ac.uk

Mr John B Hall, T.D., M.A., B. Phil.
Mr Hall is particularly interested in Medieval Arthurian Literature in the Peninsula, seventeenth-century drama and prose, and various aspects of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
j.b.hall@swansea.ac.uk

Dr Lloyd H Davies, B.A., Ph.D.
Dr Davies' main research interests include women’s writing , the literary representation of Peronism and the New Historical Novel. He is supervising several Ph.D theses in related areas.
l.h.davies@swansea.ac.uk

Dr Elaine Canning, B.A, M.A., Ph.D.
Dr Canning’s principal research area is seventeenth-century Spanish drama, with particular focus on the metatheatrical properties of the comedia, the religious play and the concept of audience reception. She is also conducting research on the themes of adaptation and theatricality in Spanish cinema.
e.canning@swansea.ac.uk 

Dr Sian Edwards, B.A., Ph.D
Dr Edwards' principal research interest is contemporary Spanish Politics and History, including Culture, Politics and Diversity in Spain and the Politics of Identity in Spain.
s.e.edwards@swansea.ac.uk

Dr Luis Valenzuela, Licenciado, Ph.D.
Dr Valenzuela's main research interest is Social and economic history of Chile (19th & 20th Century).
l.valenzuela@swansea.ac.uk 


Dr Sarah Bowskill B.A., M.A., PhD. 
Dr Bowskill's research interests include twentieth-century Mexican literature and history, Mexico-U.S. borderlands literature, theory of the canon, canon formation and gender studies.
s.e.l.bowskill@swansea.ac.uk

Dr Geraldine Lublin, Licenciada, PhD. 
Dr Lublin's research interests focus on Patagonian culture and identity, the Welsh community in Patagonia, the construction of regional and national narratives in Latin America, diasporic groups in the American continent, Latin American diasporas in Europe, Ibero-American cinema, and teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
g.lublin@swansea.ac.uk 

Mrs Maria Antonia Babi, Licenciada Educ., Fil. y Let. 
Mrs Babí's main research interest is Language Acquisition. She is currently working on Language Production with specific emphasis on writing skills.
m.a.babi@swansea.ac.uk

Mrs Patricia Rodriguez-Martinez, Lic., Trad., Inter., M.Phil.
Mrs Rodríguez-Martínez's research interests focus on Afro-Latin American Studies - poetry in particular - and the application of Language Technology to literary research as well as Translation & Interpreting theory, teaching and material development.
p.e.h.rodriguez-martinez@swansea.ac.uk

Mrs Esther Santamaria-Iglesias, Lic. Fil., B.A.
Mrs Santamaría-Iglesias specialises in communicative and mediatic Spanish language skills in an academic and professional environment. She is the author of A Spanish Grammar Workbook (Blackwell, 2002), and co-author of En Activo: Practical Business Spanish (Routledge, 2008) and its interactive website www.enactivo.info.
e.santamaria-iglesias@swansea.ac.uk