On sabbatical leave – will return Michaelmas term 2024
Geoffrey Maguire is a Fellow in Spanish at Gonville & Caius College and a College Lecturer at Emmanuel College. He specialises in contemporary Latin American film, literature and visual art, with particular interests in cultural memory, queer representation, and sexuality and gender.
Geoffrey is the author of The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture (2017) and, with Rachel Randall, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2018). His current monograph explores the filmic representation of queer sexualities through theories of temporality and embodiment, and is entitled Bodies of Water: Queer Trends in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. More broadly, Geoffrey is interested in the intersections of politics and culture in contemporary Latin America, as well as in theoretical debates surrounding performance, masculinities and post-conflict cultural memory, particularly the Falklands/Malvinas conflict.
Geoffrey teaches and lectures broadly on undergraduate papers for the Section of Spanish and Portuguese, as well as on the MPhil courses in MMLL 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 is currently the PhD Director for the Centre of Latin American Studies, and he welcomes questions from prospective doctoral students
Teaching interests:
Hispanic film, literature and visual art; film theory; gender and queer theory; cultural memory; theatre and performance.
Research interests:
Latin American 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 (forthcoming).
- 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
- ‘The Queer Art of Feeling: Futurity, Fin de siglo and New Queer Realism’, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (forthcoming, 2023).
- ‘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.
Department/Section:
Spanish & Portuguese
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
College:
Emmanuel College
Gonville & Caius College
Location:
P15, Tree Court
Gonville & Caius
Trinity Street
CB2 1TA
United Kingdom
