PhD supervision
I welcome working with students focusing their projects on the periods of Francoism, Republican exile and of post-Franco Spain and concerned with any aspects of the intersection of culture and politics in relation to urban spaces; Republican exile; state transformation from dictatorship to transition to democracy.
- Lee Watson, 2001-2007: “Representing Catalunya : Articulating an identity through media sports texts - nationalism to post-nationalism, from modernist tradition to post modern condition.”
- Nicola Mola, 2004-2012: “Antonio Muñoz Molina and the role of the modern man of letters”
- Peter Cooke, 2004-2009: “The liberalism in exile of Ocios de españoles emigrados (1824-27): An Hegelian perspective”
- Oscar Salgado, 2007-2012: “The poetics of Julián Ríos: A ‘generative’ work”. Recipient of an AHRC doctoral award.
- Mark Stuart-Smith, 2008-2012: “Juan Muñoz: Memory and silence”. Recipient of an AHRC doctoral award. Co-supervision with Prof. Simon Shaw-Miller, Birkbeck, History of Art.
- Eva Nieto, 2010- : “A mind of winter? The intellectual exile of Arturo Barea (1939-1957)". Recipient of an AHRC doctoral award.
- Francesc Salgado, 2007 May-September: External supervision while on research visit from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). “El periodismo de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, desde El Español hasta Triunfo” (1960-1978)”.
- Rosa Estruch Beltran, 2012 May-June: External supervision while on research visit from Universitat de Barcelona. “La figura de l’intel.lectual en la literatura catalana: Joan Fuster”.
Post-Doctoral Supervision
- Isaac Marrero 2011-2014 “Looking at/for the militant city: political space and audiovisual art in two postindustrial, Olympic cities -the case of Barcelona and London” Postdoctoral Research Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
