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Sarah Wright

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Professor Wright's research focuses on Spanish cinema, theatre and cultural studies.  She completed her PhD at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, before taking up a post at the University of Hull in 1999.  She moved to Royal Holloway as Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in 2005. The book The Child in Spanish Cinema, whose research was supported by an AHRC fellowship 2010-2011, was published in 2013 (paperback 2016) with Manchester University Press. Locating the Voice in Film: Critical Approaches and Global Practices (Oxford University Press), co-edited with Tom Whittaker, was published in 2017. Following the award of a grant from The Leverhulme Trust, from 2014-17 she was Principal Investigator of a project to establish a network of scholars working on 'Childhood and Nation in World Cinemas', (together with partners Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of New South Wales), Professor Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge) and Dr. Zitong Qiu (Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University). Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinemas (2017), co-edited with Stephanie Hemelryk-Donald and Emma Wilson, was published with Bloomsbury (paperback from summer 2018). More Info.

Deborah Martin

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Dr Deborah Martin specialises in Latin American cinema and is particularly interested in questions of gender, sexuality, childhood, touch and embodiment in cinema. She completed her doctorate at Cambridge University (2008) before being appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Bath (2008-2012). In 2012 she was appointed by the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University College London, where she is now a Senior Lecturer. Her most recent book The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2019) was supported by an AHRC Early Career Fellowship (2011-2012) and examines the representation of the child in relation to the historical, political and social contexts of several Latin American countries alongside the relationship between the cinematic presence of the child and the narrative and aesthetic tendencies of the films discussed. She is also the author of two further books, The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel (2016) and Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture 1940-2005: Of Border Guards, Nomads and Women (2012), as well as several articles and book chapters on Latin American cinema. With Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth University) she is co-editor of the book Latin American Women’s Film-making: Production, Politics, Poetics (2017). More Info

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