Girton College University of Cambridge

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Stuart Davis

Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages

Stuart Davis Stuart Davis is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Girton.  He has taught here since 2003 and previously had studied and taught temporarily at the University of Birmingham. His broad research and teaching interests lie in the contemporary periods of both Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. He has an interest in museum and memory studies and literary theory, especially in literary canon, metacriticism, reader-response, gender and sexuality.
His current research is tying together many of these areas in to a book-length study entitled Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain. The Imaginary Museum of Literature.

College Activities

Personal Interests

I enjoy good food (Mexican, Italian), good music (Björk, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor), good places to visit (Ely Cathedral, Anglesey Abbey) and chasing after my children.

Information of Selected Publications

Edited Collections
2007 Co-editor with Helena Buffery and Kirsty Hooper of Reading Iberia: Theory/History/Identity, Peter Lang, 2007.

Articles in refereed journals
2010 ‘“Something of a One-Man Generation”: Understanding Juan Goytisolo’s Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative’ Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism (Online Journal), 6/7 (2010), n.p.
2010 ‘Close encounters of the cultural kind: The peninsular Spanish canon in a pedagogical context’ Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 16 (2010), 107-126.
2009 ‘Narrative Battles: War and Memory in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 86 (2009), 521–536.
2005 ‘Life, Death and the Name: The Case of Juan Goytisolo’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41 (2005), 365–374.
2004 ‘Re-Reading and Re-Writing Traditions: The Case of Borges’s La casa de Asterión’, Romance Studies, 22 (2004), 139–148.
2001 ‘Is there a Peninsular Spanish Canon in Hispanic Studies?’ Donaire, 16 (2001), 5–11.
2001 ‘In Defence of an Institution: Approaches to the Peninsular Spanish Canon’, Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies, 7 (2001), 129–142.

Chapters in Books
2009 ‘El lugar de las novelas tardías en la obra completa de Juan Goytisolo’ in Pesquisas en la obratardía de Juan Goytisolo, eds. Adriaensen and Kunz (Rodopi), 23–42.
2007 Reading Author and Text: Juan Goytisolo and Makbara’ in Juan Goytisolo: Territories of Life and Writing, ed. by Black (Peter Lang), 41–61.
2007 ‘Que(e)rying Spain: On the Limits and Possibilities of Queer Theory in Hispanism’ in Reading Iberia: Theory/History/Identity ed. by Buffery, Davis and Hooper, 63–80.
2006 ‘Spain is Different?: The “Generation X” in Spanish Literature’ in The Global Literary Field, ed. by Hockx, Paizis and Gutman, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 41–57.

Book Reviews
2011 Idoya Puig (ed.) Tradition and Modernity: Cervantes's Presence in Spanish Contemporary Literature Bulletin of Spanish Studies 88 (2011), 612-3.
2010 Noël Valis (ed.) Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 87 (2010), 390-2
2010 Samuel Amago True Lies. Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel Bulletin of Spanish Studies 87 (2010), 133-4
2008 Christine Henseler and Randolph D. Pope (eds.) Generation X Rocks. Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 85 (2008), 592–4
2008 M. Mar Langa Pizarro Del franquismo a la postmodernidad: la novela española (1975–1999). Análisis y diccionario de autores, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 85 (2008), 156–7.
2008 Kathleen M Glenn and Janet Pérez (eds.) Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 85 (2008), 157–8.
2007 Alison Ribeiro de Menezes Juan Goytisolo: The Author as Dissident Modern Language Review 102 (2007), 545–6.
2006 Wadda C. Ríos-Font The Canon and the Archive. Configuring Literature in Modern Spain, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7 (2006), 171–3.

Translations
2007 ‘To Cervantise. Homing Instincts, Heritage and Queer Ethics in Goytisolo’s Carajicomedia: A Mestizo and/or Dis(s)identifying Essay (Parts Academic, Queer and Ironic) Concerning Novels and Lives of Little Exemplarity’ (original by Ángel Sahuquillo) in Juan Goytisolo: Territories of Life and Writing, ed. Black, (Peter Lang), pp. 146-78..