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Professor Edward King
BA(Nott.), MPhil(Cantab.), PhD(Cantab.)
Expertise
Current positions
Professor of Latin American Studies
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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Research interests
I am a cultural theorist working on contemporary digital, visual and literary cultures. My research explores contemporary cultures of connectivity, with a particular focus on the use of speculative fiction and multi-media texts, from comics to artists’ books, to expose and contest the shifting power dynamics of the digital age.
My latest book, Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (UCL Press, 2017; co-authored with Joanna Page), explores the emergence of the graphic novel in Latin America as a uniquely powerful medium through which to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity and especially forms of embodiment or mediatization that bind humans to their non-human environment.
Other published works include Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture (Palgrave: 2013) and Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (Palgrave: 2015), an examination of techno-orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture.
I am currently completing a monograph titled Entwined Being: Twins in Digital, Visual and Literary Cultures that traces the ways in which twins have been used in different fields of knowledge and representational practices to map the increasingly intricate entanglements of human subjects and their technological and natural environments. The book is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic for publication in the ‘Explorations in Science and Literature’ series.
I am also leading a Newton-funded research project together with Marcelo Buzato (Universidade de Campinas) on the intersection between digital literacy and social inclusion in Brazil. We are particularly interested in the use of creative, collaborative and cross-disciplinary methodologies to explore these urgent issues.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Contesting Algorithmic Racism Through Digital Cultures in Brazil
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
01/10/2023 to 31/01/2025
Narratives and the Grapevine: New Modes for Literature and Storytelling
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
06/01/2020 to 31/07/2020
Addressing Culture and Inequality in Latin America
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
ACILA will build research partnerships investigating the role of culture in addressing development challenges around inequality.Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
01/03/2018 to 31/07/2018
Addressing Culture and Inequality in Latin America
Principal Investigator
Description
ACILA will put cultural work and creative methodologies at the centre of attempts to address development challenges around inequality. It will build on existing UoB expertise in this area, strengthening…Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
01/03/2018 to 31/07/2018
Publications
Recent publications
17/06/2024Navigating Physical and Digital Environments
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Autographic Selfies
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
Digital Comics and Unstable Interfaces
Bloomsbury Posthumanism Handbook
Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration in Photobooks from Brazil
Transnational Portuguese Studies
Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos in the Contemporary Photobook in Brazil
The Limits of the Human in Latin American Visual Culture