Santiago Fouz Hernández

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• Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University

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Santiago Fouz Hernández is Professor of Iberian Studies and Film Studies at Durham University. His research explores issues of gender, the body, sexualities and national identities in contemporary Spanish cinema. He is the author of the books The Films of Bigas Luna (Manchester University Press, 2025), Cuerpos de cine (Bellaterra, 2013), and (with Alfredo Martínez-Expósito) Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2007). He has also edited five books including Spanish Erotic Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Mysterious Skin. Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2009), and three special journal issues, including, most recently, an issue on Ventura Pons for Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas (21.3).

Since 2015 he coordinates (with Betty Bigas) 'The Bigas Luna Tribute', a series of retrospectives, exhibitions and other events to help promote internationally the work of the late Spanish filmmaker. He also produces and co-presents the podcast 'El legado cinematográfico de Bigas Luna', title of the book he edited in 2020 for Tirant lo Blanch publishers.
He is currently working with Alfredo Martínez Expósito on a new co-authored volume entitled Second Skins: Male Bodies in Crises in 21st C Spanish Cinema, under contract with Bloomsbury, and a co-edited special journal issue which is part of the same project. The project has received funding from the CASS Foundation and the British Academy.

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• 1999–present Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University

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