Dr Geoffrey Maguire

Gonville and Caius College
  • Fellow in Spanish, Gonville & Caius College
  • Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies, Emmanuel College
  • Director of Postgraduate Studies, Centre of Latin American Studies
Available to supervise doctoral students
Available to supervise masters students
Dr Geoffrey Maguire

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  • G1a St Michael's Court Gonville & Caius Trinity Street CB2 1TA

About

Geoffrey specialises in contemporary Latin American film, literature and visual art, with particular interests in cultural memory, queer representation, and sexuality and gender. His current research project, Un/Natural: Marine Sexualities and the Queer Ecological, draws contemporary queer theory into dialogue with the blue humanities and marine biology through a range of contemporary literary, cinematic and artistic texts. He is the author of Bodies of Water (2024), The Politics of Postmemory (2017) and, with Rachel Randall, New Visions of Adolescence (2018). In 2024, he was the Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair in Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney.

Geoffrey teaches and lectures broadly on undergraduate papers for the Section of Spanish and Portuguese, as well as on the MPhil courses in MMLL, Film Studies, Gender Studies and the Centre of Latin American Studies. He also supervises Year Abroad Projects, Optional Dissertations, MPhil essays and theses on a broad range of topics in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema, literature and visual art. Geoffrey welcomes questions from prospective MPhil and doctoral students in any of the areas of his research interests.

Geoffrey sits on Steering Committee of Cambridge Reproduction and the Management Team of the lgbtQ+@Cam programme, which promotes research, outreach and network building related to queer, trans and sexuality studies across the University. He is also the Project Co-Lead of the Queer Conceptions research network. Beyond the University, Geoffrey is a Trustee of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) and of the Cambridge Film Trust, which runs the annual Cambridge Film Festival.

Research

Research interests

  • World film
  • Queer studies
  • Sexuality and gender studies
  • Cinematic time and embodiment
  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Postmemory and cultural memory

Published works: 

Books

  • Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2024).
  • New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, co-edited with Rachel Randall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  • The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

 

Special Issues  

  • House or Home? Domestic Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, co-edited with Rachel Randall and Paul Merchant, Journal of Romance Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer 2018).

 

Articles and Book Chapters  

  • 'Queer Adolescence and Fluidity in Contemporary Brazilian Film', The Oxford Handbook of Brazilian Cinema, ed. by Maite Conde and Gustavo Procopio Furtado (forthcoming).
  • ‘The Queer Art of Feeling: Futurity, Fin de siglo and New Queer Realism’, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (June 2024).
  • ‘Proiettando il passato: riflessività, repitizione e spettatore in Minefield/Campo minado di Lola Arias’, Stratagemmi, No. 41 (Summer 2021), pp. 47-66.
  • ‘Slow Waters: Marco Berger’s Taekwondo and the Queer Erotics of Boredom’, Screen, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer 2020), pp. 191-206.
  • ‘Screening the Past: Reflexivity, Repetition and the Spectator in Lola Arias’ Minefield’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Autumn 2019), pp. 471-486.
  • ‘Of Hideouts and Heterotopias: Children, Violence and the Safe House in Contemporary Argentine Cinema’, Journal of Romance Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 181-204.
  • ‘House or Home? Domestic Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Cinema’, Journal of Romance Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 143-157.
  • ‘Visual Displeasure: Adolescence and the Queer Male Gaze in Marco Berger’s Ausente’, in New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, ed. by Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 33-59.
  • ‘Visualising Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Gender, Class and Politics’, in New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, ed. by Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 1-33.
  • ‘Playing in Public: Domestic Politics and the Child’s Gaze in Paula Markovitch’s El premio’, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 3-12.
  • ‘Entre la memoria y la imaginación: la politización de la niñez y la conciencia cinematográfica en Infancia clandestina’, in El pasado inasequible. Desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y literatura del nuevo milenio, ed. by Jordana Blejmar, Mariana Eva Perez and Silvana Mandolessi (Buenos Aires: EUDUBA, 2016), pp. 249-276.
  • ‘Bringing Memory Home: Historical (Post)Memory and Patricio Pron’s El espíritu de mis padres’, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, (Spring 2014), pp. 211-228.

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students
Available to supervise masters students

Teaching interests: 

Hispanic film, literature and visual art; film theory; gender and queer theory; cultural memory; theatre and performance.

 

Supervisor of: 

Daniela Meneses-Sala