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Dr Miguel Garcia Lopez
BA, MA, MA, PhD
Expertise
I'm a Lecturer and Researcher of contemporary Spanish literature, film, and culture, interested in Hispanic understandings of queerness and critical studies of gender and non-normative sexualities and identities.
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Biography
I graduated from a BA in English from University of Murcia in 2009, and subsequently completed an MA in Hispanic Studies and Teaching Foreign Languages from West Virginia University (USA), where I worked as Graduate Teaching Assistant from 2009 to 2011.
I hold a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, where I lectured from 2013 to 2020. My PhD thesis focused on Federico García Lorca's late poetic, graphic and filmic works from a queer critical perspective. I also completed an MA by Research in Hispanic Studies (2012-2013) at Royal Holloway on the early poetic works of Federico García Lorca.
I moved to University of Bristol in 2020, where I was appointed Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the School of Modern Languages.
Research interests
My research interests include contemporary Spanish poetry, theatre and film from the critical perspectives of Gender and Queer Studies.
My recently published monograph Queering Lorca’s Duende: Desire, Death, Intermediality (Legenda, 2022) proposes a queer reading of Federico García Lorca’s later poetry, theatre, drawings and film script. My current research project examines the representation of adolescents and young adults in twenty-first-century Hispanic film, focusing on queer identities and on emerging Spanish and Argentinian filmmakers. Its aim is to map millennial Hispanic film and digital television within global screen cultures, assessing its unique critical position vis-à-vis the intersection of gender, sexual and national identities.
My wider research interests are Hispanic queer and LGBTQ+ literature, intermediality and word-image relations in Hispanic and World Literature and Visual Culture, and contemporary Hispanic cinema with a focus on queer filmmaking. My expertise ranges from twentieth-century Hispanic poetics, queer writings and multimedia artists to twentieth-century and contemporary Spanish cinema.
I teach courses on Hispanic literature, cinema, language, translation and culture. My teaching practice provides a link between Spanish literary and visual cultures, queer theory and translation in the Hispanic Studies and World and Comparative Literature areas, also offering great opportunities for intercultural and transnational awareness, critical thinking, interdisciplinarity and interaction within the academic community and beyond.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Queer Screen Cultures in the 21st Century: Embedding Diversity, Inclusivity and Representation in Audio-Visual Media
Principal Investigator
Description
This project seeks to increase the visibility, inclusion, and agency of LGBTIQA+ people and minoritized communities (racialised people, people with disabilities, people with non-hegemonic bodies) in audio-visual media. This is…Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
14/02/2024 to 14/08/2024
The Wounds We Keep: Youth, Trauma And Otherness In The 21st Century
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
20/02/2023 to 31/10/2023
Publications
Recent publications
26/01/2023Queer Memory in Contemporary Spanish Digital TV
Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America
Millennial Screen Cultures in Spain: Queering the Mainstream
Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
Functional Literacy: the What, the Why and the How
Pedagogical Dialogue
The Poetics of Heterodox Desires in Federico García Lorca's Late Poetry
Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies
Queering Lorca's Duende: Desire, Death, Intermediality
Queering Lorca's Duende: Desire, Death, Intermediality
Teaching
I am Careers and Employability Lead for the School of Modern Languages.