Seeing in Spanish ― From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee-22 Essays on Hispanic Visual Cultures

Ryan Prout is a graduate of the University of St Andrews. He completed his PhD at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. At Cardiff University's School of European Studies he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on film, literature, and translation. His recent publications have been on adoption and identity, disability in Spanish cinema, and on short films. His book on Hispanic cultural studies is forthcoming as is a journal dossier on endism in film from Europe and the Americas. His work has appeared in Third Text, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, TLS, Film International, and The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. He is a member of the advisory board for Film Matters. Tilmann Altenberg is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Cardiff University and general editor of the journal New Readings. He has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Latin American literature, including a monograph on the Cuban-Mexican poet Jose Maria Heredia. His critical edition of Heredia's complete poetry is forthcoming (UNAM). He has co-edited a multi-disciplinary cross-media volume on Don Quijote and contributed two chapters of a volume on the European Picaresque Novel (La novela picaresca: Concepto generico y evolucion del genero). Current research projects focus on executions during the Mexican Revolution and on the representations of the conscience in Hispanic literature and film.