
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
My research explores digital cultures in Latin America, with a particular focus on the use speculative fiction and multi-media objects, from comics to video games, to expose and contest the shifting power dynamics of the information age.
My most recent monograph is Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures (Bloomsbury Academic: 2022), which 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.
Other published monographs include Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture (Palgrave: 2013); Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (Palgrave: 2015); and Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (UCL Press, 2017; co-authored with Joanna Page).
As PI on the AHRC-funded project ‘Challenging Algorithmic Racism Through Digital Cultures in Brazil,’ I am currently working on a monograph that explores intersections between video game cultures and racial capitalism in Brazil and co-producing a video game that raises critical awareness of algorithmic biases.
I am also co-director of the Centre for Creative Technologies, which collaborates with the Pervasive Media Studio to provide a community for colleagues across the Faculty of Arts working with or on creative technologies – whether analogue or digital – from film and print to gaming and VR.
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
13/03/2024Gaming Race in Brazil
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
Navigating Physical and Digital Environments
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Afrofuturismo and the Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil
Imagining AI
Speculative Black Digital Territories in Brazil
Modern Languages Open
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures