Staff Details
The Centre draws on the teaching expertise of lecturers across the university and its colleges. Three members of academic staff are based within the Centre itself: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris (the Director), Dr Joanna Page (Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies) and Dr Marta de Magalhães (Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies).
Director
Geoffrey Kantaris
E-mail: egk10@cam.ac.uk
Dr Kantaris is Director of the Centre and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He specializes in Latin American urban culture, in particular contemporary cinema. He is preparing a book provisionally entitled “Contemporary Latin American Cinema: The Urban Paradigm” and has published a wide range of articles in this area. He has also worked on Southern Cone literature, and is author of The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women's Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Teaching Staff
Steven Boldy
E-mail: srb1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Dr Boldy is Reader in Latin American Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a specialist in modern Spanish-American literature and the author of a number of books, including The Novels of Julio Cortázar (Cambridge University Press, 1980) and The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes: Family, Text, Nation (Durham Modern Languages, 2002).
Charles Jones
E-mail: caj26@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jones is Reader in the History of International Relations and a former Director of the Centre. He has worked extensively on the past and contemporary international economic relations of Latin America, especially the Southern Cone, and is author of E H Carr and International Relations (1998), El Reino Unido y América (Madrid, 1992) and The North-South Dialogue: A Brief History (London, 1983). His most recent book, American Civilization (University of London SAS 2007), deals with hemisphere commonalities and contests the illusions of United States exceptionalism.
Michael Kuczynski
E-mail: mgk1002@cam.ac.uk
Mr Kuczynski is a Fellow of Pembroke College and an authority on international economics and finance.
Sian Lazar
E-mail: sl360@cam.ac.uk
Dr Lazar is a University Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London, with a thesis on citizenship, personhood and political agency among rural-urban migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Her research interests include the state, corruption, rights and multiculturalism, and social movements in Latin America. See El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2008).
David Lehmann
E-mail: adl1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Lehmann is a Reader in Social Science in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and a former Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies. Since the late 1980's he has worked on religious movements, Catholic and Evangelical, particularly in Brazil. He is the author of Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-war Period (Polity Press, 1990) and Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America (Polity Press, 1996).
Marta de Magalhães
E-mail: msradm2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Magalhães is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies. She completed her PhD in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge with a thesis on cosmopolitanism, violence and sovereignty in contemporary Brazil (Salvador, Bahia). Her research interests include political and legal anthropology, critical theory, violence, memory, the anthropology of cities and space.
Rory O’Bryen
E-mail: rro20@cam.ac.uk
Dr O’Bryen is a University Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He completed his PhD with a thesis on La Violencia, and is the author of Spectres of La Violencia: Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture (Boydell and Brewer, 2008). His current research interests include post-Boom Spanish American literature, C19th Colombian history and Latin American cinema. See here for further information.
Joanna Page
E-mail: jep29@cam.ac.uk
Dr Page is a University Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at CLAS and Lecturer in Spanish at Robinson College. She completed her PhD thesis at Cambridge on politics and postmodernism in the work of Ricardo Piglia. Her research interests include Argentine literature and film. She is the author of Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Duke University Press, 2009) and the co-editor of Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Sarah A Radcliffe
E-mail: sar23@cam.ac.uk
Dr Radcliffe is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Geography, see here for further information.
Gabriela Ramos
E-mail: gr266@cam.ac.uk
Dr Ramos is Lecturer in Latin American History in the Faculty of History, and Fellow at Newnham College. She specializes in the colonial history of the Andes. Her research interests include religion, culture, and politics in Latin America.
Erica Segre
E-mail: es251@cam.ac.uk
Ms Segre is a Newton Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Trinity College. Her research is in 19th-century Latin-American literature and thought and 19th- and 20th-century visual culture in Latin America (film, photography, art) especially Mexico. She has published Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualization in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007).
Fabienne Viala
E-mail: fv233@cam.ac.uk
Dr Viala is Mellon Fellow in Postcolonial Caribbean and Latin American Studies, attached to the Faculty of English and the Centre of Latin American Studies. She has taught Comparative Literature at the University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and she has worked on the 20th century European and Latin American historical novel, contemporary Cuban detective novel and Caribbean female fiction. She is currently working on the representations of Christopher Columbus in contemporary Caribbean fiction (West-Indies, Spanish Caribbean, French Antilles). The purpose of this project is to explore the adaptability of postcolonial theory within a Pan-Caribbean context in order to elucidate the nature of such patterns in contemporary Caribbean literature.
Administrative Staff
The Centre's administrative staff are always pleased to respond to enquiries and requests from present and potential students and academic staff. Between them they can deal with enquiries in Spanish and Portuguese.
Clare Hariri, Administrator
E-mail: ch10018@cam.ac.uk
Julie Coimbra, Librarian
E-mail: jac46@cam.ac.uk