Professor Paul Julian Smith FBA

Spanish and Latin American cinema, television, and visual culture; literature in Spanish from the Renaissance to the present
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Distinguished Professor, City University, New York

Past appointments

City University, New York Distinguished Professor

2010 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Spanish, University of Cambridge

1991 - 2010

Queen Mary University of London Lecturer; Reader

1984 - 1991

Publications

Spanish Practices: Literature, Cinema, Television 2012

Amores Perros: Modern Classic 2003

Spanish Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television 2009

Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar [2nd revised and expanded edition] 2000

The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture 2000

Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet 2006

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Simon Shepherd FBA

The cultural history of theatre practices and dramatic forms in Britain, including theories of performance, from the early-modern to the present day; the theatrical avant-gardes of melodrama and modernism

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Professor Leslie Hill FBA

French Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Textual Studies Film and Media History Philosophy

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Professor Jonathan Culler FBA

Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century

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