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 Patrick Wright FBA

'Heritage' and the power of tradition in British culture since 1890; the cultural dimensions of international relations since 1945; place and belonging in relation to globalisation

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Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan

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Professor Clair Wills FBA

20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration

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