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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Prof Geoffrey Kantaris

Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Position(s): 
Professor of Latin American Culture
Fellow of St Catharine's College
Director of Studies, St Catharine's College
Department/Section: 
Spanish & Portuguese
Centre of Latin American Studies
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details: 
Telephone number: 
+44 (0) 1223 338312
College: 
Location: 

St Catharine's College ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ CB1 2NZ United Kingdom

About: 

Geoffrey Kantaris is Professor of Latin American Culture. He specializes in modern Latin American filmÌýand literature, with particular interests in urban film (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil), women's writing, popular culture, and the cultures of globalization. He teaches a graduate-level seminar on the spatial turn and spatial theory and another on theories of power, hegemony and post-hegemony. He has published many articles and book chapters on urban film,Ìýpostmodernity, women’s writing and dictatorship, and on the theory ofÌýLatin American Popular Culture. ÌýHe is author of The Subversive Psyche (Oxford University Press, 1996) and co-editor of Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect (Boydell and Brewer, 2013).

ProfÌýKantarisÌýwelcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to hisÌýinterests.

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