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
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Paul-Julian-Smith

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 Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism

Professor Elizabeth Boa FBA

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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