Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.
Teaching and research staff within Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.
Academic staff
Dr Ignacio Aguiló
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Latin American literature, visual culture and music; race in contemporary Latin America; racial capitalism and Marxist theories of race; digital humanities; critical whiteness studies.
Ms Mayte Álvarez-Madrigal
Senior 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 Mariana Casale
Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Dr Luis Castellví Laukamp
Senior 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 Lecturer 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 Lecturer 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.
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.
Prof James Scorer
Professor in Latin American Studies
Specialisms: Latin American cultural studies; Latin American literature and visual culture; Latin American comics work; urban imaginaries and urban history.
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.