Professor Philip Swanson

BA PhD

School of Languages and Cultures

Hughes Professor of Spanish

Philip Swanson
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p.swanson@sheffield.ac.uk
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Professor Philip Swanson
School of Languages and Cultures
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Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
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Professor Phil Swanson studied as an undergraduate at the University of Liverpool and carried out postgraduate research at the University of Edinburgh. He also studied in Oxford, Lisbon and Seville. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and the USA. He has been a Senior Fulbright fellow in the USA, holder of a Leverhulme Fellowship, and grant holder from the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust and the Society for Latin American Studies.

Phil Swanson has held a number of chairs and is now Hughes Professor of Spanish in the School of Languages and Cultures at 91直播. His departmental teaching focuses on Latin American literature, Hispanic cinema, representations of Hispanic culture and Comparative Literatures and Cultures.

His areas of research centre principally on film and modern Latin American literature, with special reference to issues of identity, politics and popular culture, the nueva narrativa, the Boom and the Post-Boom. He also works on crime and fiction as well as on imaginings of 鈥楲atin鈥 identity.

Phil also has a keen interest in Spanish and Latin American theatre and has acted in produced and directed around twenty-five Spanish-language plays.

Research interests

Professor Swanson is one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on Latin American literature, especially the New Narrative of the Latin American Boom and Post-Boom. He is currently engaged in research projects on foreign representations and imaginings of Latin America and crime and fiction in Latin America.

Publications

Books

  • (2010) . Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2005) . Blackwell Publishing Ltd. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1995) The New Novel in Latin America: Politics and Popular Culture after the Boom. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1988) Jos茅 Donoso: The "Boom" and Beyond. Liverpool: Francis Cairns. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Swanson P (Ed.) (2014) Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Swanson P (2021) A Companion to Jose Enrique Rode. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW, 116, 514-516. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2020) . Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 53(2), 280-287. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zinato A, Collins MS, Dupont D, Deyros MM, Casanova RO, Filho CC, Boehm S, Swanson P, Thornton N & Ogden R (2019) . Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96(2), 217-231. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2018) . Hispanic Research Journal, 19(3), 250-264. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2018) . Review (New York, 1968): literature and arts of the Americas, 50(2), 162-169. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2011) Remember the Alamo? Texans, Mexicans and Americans in 1960s Hollywood. Iberoamericana(44), 85-100. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2010) A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties. REV ESTUD HISPAN, 44(3), 744-747. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2010) Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the Margins. B LAT AM RES, 29(4), 552-U149. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2010) Going Down on Good Neighbours: Imagining America in Hollywood Movies of the 1930s and 1940s (Flying Down to Rio and Down Argentine Way). B LAT AM RES, 29(1), 71-84. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2010) . Foro Hisp谩nico, 40, 263-279. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2009) GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ A Life. TLS-TIMES LIT SUPPL(5524), 28-28. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2008) . Bulletin of Latin American Research, 27(4), 600-602. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2007) Latin lessons for young Americans: Isabel Allende's fiction for children. REV ESTUD HISPAN, 41(2), 173-189. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2007) Latin Lessons for Young Americans: Isabel Allende's Fiction for Children. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos (St. Louis, MO), 41(2), 174-189. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2007) Cultural studies in the curriculum: Teaching Latin America.. MOD LANG REV, 102, 548-549. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2007) . Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 84(1), 141-141. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2006) . Romance Studies, 24(3), 265-277. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) . Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 82(3-4), 387-402. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) Jung, Alchemy and Jose Donoso's novel El 'obsceno pajaro de la noche'. B HISPANIC STUD, 82(3), 406-407. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) A companion to modern Spanish American fiction.. B HISPANIC STUD, 82(3), 398-399. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) The veracity of disguise in selected works of Jose Donoso: Illusory deception. B HISPANIC STUD, 82(3), 406-407. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) Cesar Vallejo: A critical bibliography of research.. MOD LANG REV, 100, 240-240. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2004) Manuel Puig and the spider woman: His life and fictions. B HISPANIC STUD, 81(4), 569-570. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2004) Assertive hispanisms: Tensions and affirmations in cultural identity. B HISPANIC STUD, 81(4), 566-567. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2004) The omnipresence of mimesis in the work of Manuel Puig. B HISPANIC STUD, 81(4), 569-570. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2003) . Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 9(1), 57-67. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2002) . South Atlantic Review, 67(4), 46-46. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2001) Back to the Boom? Recent Trends in Spanish American Literary Studies. Latin American Research Review, 36(2), 202-208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • SWANSON P (1999) . Forum for Modern Language Studies, XXXV(1), 95-106. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1999) Lost in a Spanish Garden: Exile and Anxiety in Jos茅 Donoso's 'Spanish' Narratives. Studi Ispanici, 24, 149-159. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1997) In Memoriam: Jos茅 Donoso (1924-1996). New Novel Review: Nueva Novela/Nouveau Roman Review, 4(2), 8-10. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1995) Only Joking? Gustavo Sainz and La princesa del Palacio de Hierro: Funniness, Identity and the Post-Boom. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 19(1), 101-115. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1994) . Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 71(2), 217-237. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1993) Boom or Bust? Latin America and the Not So New Novel. New Novel Review: Nueva Novela/Nouveau Roman Review, 1(1), 74-92. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Round NG, C谩rdenas AJ, Macpherson I, Wright R, Harvey LP, Harvey LP, Taylor B, Tate B, Rycraft P, Lomax DW , Cabr茅 L et al (1992) . Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 69(2), 179-216. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1987) . Contemporary Literature, 28(4), 520-520. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1986) . Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 63(3), 247-256. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1985) Binary Elements in El obsceno p谩jaro de la noche. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos (St. Louis, MO), 19(1), 101-116. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1983) Concerning the Criticism of the Work of Jos茅 Donoso. Revista Interamericana de Bibliograf铆a/Inter-American Review of Bibliography, 33, 355-365. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Martin GM & Swanson P (1982) Spanish-American Literature: The Twentieth Century. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 44, 492-509. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P () . Revista Iberoamericana, 53(141), 995-998. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Swanson P (2021) Fate and Free Will in Chronicle of a Death Foretold In Bell-Villada GH & L贸pez -Calvo I (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez (pp. 512-523). New York: Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2020) Borges and Popular Culture, JORGE LUIS BORGES IN CONTEXT (pp. 123-129). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2019) In Lange C & Peate A (Ed.), Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s (pp. 157-175). Oxford: Peter Lang. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2018) In Larke-Walsh GS (Ed.), A Companion to the Gangster Film (pp. 166-181). Wiley RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2014) Death in the Tropics: Alajuelita, 鈥楨l Psic贸pata, and Costa Rican Crime Fiction In Forero G (Ed.), V铆ctimas, novela y realidad del crimen Bogot谩: Planeta. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2014) Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, 1927-2014, Palabra Clave (pp. 253-257). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2013) , The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges (pp. 81-95). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2012) Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction In Anderson J, Pezzotti B & Miranda C (Ed.), The Foreign in International Crime Fiction (pp. 35-46). Bloomsbury Academic RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2012) Isabel Allende (1942- ), A Companion to Latin American Women Writers (pp. 159-167). Woodbridge, England: Tamesis Books. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2011) Unfinished Business: Lagartija sin cola, Donoso鈥檚 Lost Novel In Carpenter V (Ed.), A World in Words, A Life in Texts: Revisiting Latin American Cultural Heritage (pp. 161-184). Peter Lang Pub Incorporated RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2010) In Swanson P (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez (pp. 1-6). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2009) The Detective and the Disappeared: Memory, Forgetting and Other Confusions in Juan Jos茅 Saer's La pesquisa, Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction (pp. 277-294). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Brill/Rodopi. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2006) Isabel Allende y la marca del Zorro, La metamorfosis en las literaturas en lengua espa帽ola (pp. 328-334). Budapest, Hungary: E枚tv枚s J贸zsef K枚nyvkiad贸. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) , The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (pp. 81-102). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (2005) Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias, A Companion to Magical Realism (pp. 168-180). Woodbridge, England: Tamesis Books. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1993) Romancing the Stone with Carlos Fuentes: Reading and Writing La cabeza de la hidra, LA CHISPA '93: Selected Proceedings (pp. 240-247). New Orleans: Tulane UP. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P (1990) Jos茅 Donoso: El obsceno p谩jaro de la noche, Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (pp. 183-206). London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P () , The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel (pp. 110-123). Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P () Fate and Free Will in Chronicle of a Death Foretold In Bell-Villada G & L贸pez Calvo I (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P () In Swanson P (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garci谩 M谩rquez (pp. 57-63). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Swanson P () Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and Consumption In O'Bryen R & Davies C (Ed.), Transnational Hispanic Studies LUP RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Swanson P (2019) Postcolonial Borges: Argument and Artistry. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, 96(2), 228-229. RIS download Bibtex download

Other

  • Swanson P (2016) 笔谤贸濒辞驳辞. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Supervised topics include: Magical Realism, Latin American Poetry, Manuel Puig, Psychoanalysis and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa, Dulce Mar铆a Loynaz, Zo茅 Vald茅s, Cristina Peri Rossi, The Absurd in Virgilio Pi帽era, Spanish Women Writers, Luc铆a Etxebarria, Nation and Region in Spanish Cinema, Humour and Fiction in Latin America, Body Modification in Mexican Visual Culture, Banditry in Mexico and the Southern US, Naturalism in Argentina, Race and Sexuality in Angola, Paolo Coelho and the Global Market, Mexican Drug Culture, Mining in Latin American Literature, Menstruation in Hispanic Culture, Disability in Spanish Culture.

Teaching activities

Spanish language at all levels

Spain: Courses on Spanish civilization and modern Spanish history. All periods of Spanish literature. Specialist courses on Lorca, Buero Vallejo, poetry, modern drama, film, sexuality and culture.

Spanish America: All periods. Specialist courses on theatre, poetry, fiction 1900-60, fiction 1960 to present day, film, civilization versus barbarism, reality and fantasy, notions of the 鈥渕odern,鈥 politics and popular culture, sexual politics, women鈥檚 writing, Latin American identity, representations of Latin America.

Brazil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture.

Other:

Theory, practical criticism and approaches to Hispanic Studies. Interdisciplinary courses on poetry, film and the detective. Research training.

Professional activities and memberships

Phil Swanson is past President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and member of the Advisory Board for the UK鈥檚 Institute of Latin American Studies.

He has been an RAE panellist and served on a wide range of international professional and cultural organisations and institutions, grant-awarding bodies, editorial boards and review panels. He has been an assessor for a vast number of journals, publishers, universities and other academic bodies.

He was named Man of the Year by the American Bibliographical Institute Board of International Research. He has made numerous appearances on radio, television, in the print media and in public lectures.

Has been External Examiner in around fifteen universities and has externally examined about fifty PhDs across five continents. He is a well-known figure in the Spanish-speaking world and has appeared as a character in a novel by one of Spain鈥檚 leading writers, Luc铆a Etxebarr铆a.