Dr Stuart Davis

Stuart’s research interests are varied. They have particular interests in memory, shame and other emotions in Hispanic literature, film and visual cultures, as well as long standing interests in canon theory, metacriticism, museum studies and representations of gender and sexuality. Recent writings have branched out into queer identity and visual cultures in non-Hispanic contexts. Their current research work includes a longitudinal study of pedagogical canonicity identified through syllabi in UK universities’ Spanish departments; an article on the Basque landscape and identity in contemporary film, transmission of affect in the work of artist Félix González Torres. Stuart is the author of Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain: The Imaginary Museum of Literature (Tamesis, 2012) and has published articles and book chapters on literary canon formation, queer theory, Juan Goytisolo, Jorge Luis Borges and the 'Generación X'. Stuart has co-edited two volumes of essays: Reading Iberia. Theory/History/Identity (Peter Lang, 2007) and The Modern Spanish Canon: Visibility, Cultural Capital and the Academy (Legenda, 2018). 

Published works: 

Selected publications:

Forthcoming 'Secret Archives: Sex and Spies in Onyeka Igwe and Huw Lemmey's Ungentle (2022)', Screen

Forthcoming  'Locating Effeminacy' Book Forum in Journal of Bodies, Sexualities and Masculinities

Forthcoming.'The Evolving Discipline of Iberian studies in Great Britain and Ireland' forthcoming in Mapping Iberian Studies. Institutional Practices and Disciplinary Crossings (Brill) eds. Esther Gimeno Ugalde, Santiago Pérez Isasi and Mario Santana.

In deep with Ouka Leele in Authoring Female Identities in Spanish and Latin American Art and Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), eds. Fiona Noble and Nadia Albaladejo Garcia, 133-152 

This Woman’s Memory Work: Futurity, Family and Photography in Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas (2021)  Bulletin of Spansh Visual Studies (2024, 1-25): 

'The Time of the (Orphan) Child: Viewing Carla Simón’s Summer 1993/Estiu 1993 (2017) with Carlos Saura’s Raise Ravens/Cría cuervos (1976)’ Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, 17 (2020), 117-136.

'The Golden Age in the Hispanic Studies classroom: the changing shape of what we teach our undergraduates in the UK’ in Spanish Golden Age Texts in the 21st Century: Teaching the Old through the New in Puig and McLaughlin (eds.) (Peter Lang, 2019).

The Modern Spanish Canon. Visibility, Cultural Capital and the Academy Co-edited with Maite Usoz de la Fuente (Legenda, 2018)

'The State of the Discipline: Hispanic Literature and film in UK Spanish degrees', Journal of Romance Studies 18 (2018), 25-44

‘Reading beyond Cognitive Meaning: The Affective Turn in novels of the Spanish “memory-boom”’ Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 94 (2017), 801-815.

'Constructing the Archive of Contemporary Spanish Culture' Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 21 (2015), 243-247.

Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain. The Imaginary Museum of Literature (Boydell & Brewer/Tamesis, 2012)

‘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.

‘“Something of a One-Man Generation”: Understanding Juan Goytisolo’s Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative’ Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6/7 (2010), n.p.

‘Narrative Battles: War and Memory in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 86 (2009), 521-536.

‘El lugar de las novelas tardías en la obra completa de Juan Goytisolo’ in B. Adriaensen and M. Kunz (eds.) Pesquisas en la obra tardía de Juan Goytisolo (Rodopi, 2009) pp.23-42

Reading Iberia: Theory / History / Identity, Co-edited with Helena Buffery and Kirsty Hooper (Peter Lang, 2007)

‘Que(e)rying Spain: On the Limits and Possibilities of Queer Theory in Hispanism’ in H. Buffery, S. Davis and K. Hooper (eds.) Reading Iberia: Theory / History / Identity (Peter Lang, 2007), pp.63-79.

‘Reading Author and Text: Juan Goytisolo and Makbara’ in S. Black (ed.) Juan Goytisolo: Territories of Life and Writing (Peter Lang, 2006) pp.41-61.

‘Spain is Different?: The “Generation X” in Spanish Literature’ in M. Hockx, G. Paizis and A. Gutman (eds.) The Global Literary Field, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006) pp. 41-57.

‘Life, Death and the Name: The Case of Juan Goytisolo’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41 (2005), 365-374.

‘Re-Reading and Re-Writing Traditions: The Case of Borges’s La casa de Asterión’, Romance Studies, 22 (2004), 139-148.

‘In Defence of an Institution: Approaches to the Peninsular Spanish Canon’, Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies, 7 (2001), 129-142.

‘Is there a Peninsular Spanish Canon in Hispanic Studies?’ Donaire, 16 (2001), 5-11.