Girton College Huntingdon Road 海角社区 CB3 0JG United Kingdom
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Stuart Davis (personal pronouns: he/they) has been a college lecturer in Spanish at Girton College and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese since 2003. Currently Stuart is Deputy Senior Tutor (Teaching and Learning) at Girton College.
Before coming to 海角社区 Stuart completed his BA, MPhil by Research and PhD degrees at the University of Birmingham, where he studied after attending his local comprehensive school in Herefordshire and then Worcester Sixth Form College.
Stuart was delighted and privileged to be听awarded a University Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2018.
In 2025 Stuart was awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, in recognition of his leadership in teaching and education.听
Dr Davis听welcomes inquiries from potential听MPhil听and PhD students听with research interests relevant to听his听interests.
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Stuart is currently the co-ordinator for 听the final year Comparative Studies paper CS5 鈥楾he Body鈥�, on which he lectures and offer supervisions
Stuart supervises doctoral research on contemporary Spanish literature, film and culture. Prospective doctoral students are encouraged to get in touch by email with a provisional research proposal.
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Stuart鈥檚 research interests are varied. They have particular interests in memory, shame and other emotions in Hispanic literature, film and visual cultures, as well as long standing interests in canon theory, metacriticism, museum studies and representations of gender and sexuality. Their current research work includes a longitudinal study of pedagogical canonicity identified through syllabi in UK universities鈥� Spanish departments; an article on memory in the work of Pedro Almod贸var's latest film听Madres paralelas;听transmission of affect in the work of artist F茅lix Gonz谩lez Torres; an article on contemporary Spanish photographer Ouka Leele and her re-workings of canonical artworks. Stuart is the author of听听(Tamesis, 2012) and has published articles and book chapters on literary canon formation, queer theory, Juan Goytisolo, Jorge Luis Borges and the 'Generaci贸n X'. Stuart has co-edited two volumes of essays: (Peter Lang, 2007) and 听(Legenda, 2018).听
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Selected publications:
'Locating Effeminacy' Book Forum response to Richard Vytniorgu Effeminate Belonging. Gender Nonconformity Experience and Gay Bottom Identities听(Emerald Publishing, 2024) in Journal of Bodies, Sexualities and Masculinities. Forthcoming.
听听Bulletin of Spansh Visual Studies听(2024, 1-25):听
听in听Authoring Female Identities in Spanish and Latin American Art and Media听(Palgrave Macmillan),听eds. Fiona Noble and Nadia Albaladejo Garcia, 133-152听
'The Evolving Discipline of Iberian studies in Great Britain and Ireland' forthcoming in听Mapping Iberian Studies. Institutional Spaces and Interdisciplinary Dialogues听(Brill) eds. Esther Gimeno听Ugalde, Santiago听P茅rez听Isasi and Mario Santana.
'The Time of the (Orphan) Child: Viewing Carla Sim贸n鈥檚听Summer 1993/Estiu 1993听(2017) with Carlos Saura鈥檚听Raise Ravens/Cr铆a cuervos听(1976)鈥櫶�Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, 17 (2020), 117-136.
'The Golden Age in the Hispanic Studies classroom: the changing shape of what we teach our undergraduates in the UK鈥� in Spanish Golden Age Texts in the 21st Century: Teaching the Old through the New听in Puig and McLaughlin (eds.)听(Peter Lang, 2019).
The Modern Spanish Canon. Visibility, Cultural Capital and the Academy Co-edited with Maite Usoz de la Fuente (Legenda, 2018)
'The State of the Discipline: Hispanic Literature and film in UK Spanish degrees',听Journal of Romance Studies听18 (2018), 25-44
鈥楻eading beyond Cognitive Meaning: The Affective Turn in novels of the Spanish 鈥渕emory-boom鈥濃�� Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 94 (2017), 801-815.
'Constructing the Archive of Contemporary Spanish Culture'听Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies听21 (2015), 243-247.
Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain. The Imaginary Museum of Literature (Boydell & Brewer/Tamesis, 2012)
鈥楥lose encounters of the cultural kind: The peninsular Spanish canon in a pedagogical context鈥� Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 16 (2010), 107-126.
鈥樷�淪omething of a One-Man Generation鈥�: Understanding Juan Goytisolo鈥檚 Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative鈥� Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6/7 (2010), n.p.
鈥楴arrative Battles: War and Memory in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo鈥�, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 86 (2009), 521-536.
鈥楨l lugar de las novelas tard铆as en la obra completa de Juan Goytisolo鈥� in B. Adriaensen and M. Kunz (eds.) Pesquisas en la obra tard铆a de Juan Goytisolo (Rodopi, 2009) pp.23-42
Reading Iberia: Theory / History / Identity, Co-edited with Helena Buffery and Kirsty Hooper (Peter Lang, 2007)
鈥楺ue(e)rying Spain: On the Limits and Possibilities of Queer Theory in Hispanism鈥� in H. Buffery, S. Davis and K. Hooper (eds.) Reading Iberia: Theory / History / Identity (Peter Lang, 2007), pp.63-79.
鈥楻eading Author and Text: Juan Goytisolo and Makbara鈥� in S. Black (ed.) Juan Goytisolo: Territories of Life and Writing (Peter Lang, 2006) pp.41-61.
鈥楽pain is Different?: The 鈥淕eneration X鈥� in Spanish Literature鈥� in M. Hockx, G. Paizis and A. Gutman (eds.) The Global Literary Field, (海角社区 Scholars Press, 2006) pp. 41-57.
鈥楲ife, Death and the Name: The Case of Juan Goytisolo鈥�, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41 (2005), 365-374.
鈥楻e-Reading and Re-Writing Traditions: The Case of Borges鈥檚 La casa de 础蝉迟别谤颈贸苍鈥�, Romance Studies, 22 (2004), 139-148.
鈥業n Defence of an Institution: Approaches to the Peninsular Spanish Canon鈥�, Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies, 7 (2001), 129-142.
鈥業s there a Peninsular Spanish Canon in Hispanic Studies?鈥� Donaire, 16 (2001), 5-11.
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