Professor John King
Staff Contact Information:
Room 334
Telephone: 02476 523416
Email: j.p.king@warwick.ac.uk
Academic Profile
University of Edinburgh, MA 1972
University of Oxford, BPhil, 1974
University of Oxford, DPhil, 1983
Lecturer in Latin American Literature at Warwick since 1976 (Professor since 1996)
Undergraduate Modules Taught
Latin American Literature and Society
Comparative Literature of the Americas
Postgraduate Modules Taught
Contributions to Core Course in MA in Race in the Americas
Selected Publications
ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (CUP, 2004)
ed., An Argentine Passion: The Life and work of Maria Luisa Bemberg (London, 2000)
Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America (London, 2000)
Mario Vargos Llosa, Making Waves (ed & trans) (New York, 1998)
ed., Mediating Two Worlds (British Film Institute, 1993)
British-Argentine Relations (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1991)
Sur: An analysis of the Argetine Literary Journal 1931-1970 (CUP, 1986)
El Di Tella y el desarollo cultural Argentino (Editorial Gaglianone, Buenos Aires, 1985)
Research Interests
History, Literature and Cinema of Latin America, especially Argentina & Mexico
Recent Topics Supervised
Mexican Cinema
Argentine Cinema
Cuban Literary Magazines
Latina Literature in the United States
Mexican Intellectuals
Argentine Women Writers
Caribbean Literature in English, Spanish and French
