Dr Xon de Ros
Dr Xon de Ros
University Lecturer in Modern Spanish Literature,Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Lecturer at Somerville College
Address: Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, OX2 6QA
Email: xon.de-ros@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Research
Spanish literature of the modern period (C19th and C20th), especially modernismo, poetry, cinema, music and the visual arts. More recently my interests have extended to questions of gender and sexual difference in representation. Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/ ), University of London (Birkbeck), and of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW: http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CCWW.htm ) at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London (IGRS). Member of the editorial committee of HiPLAM (Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Monographs Bristol, and of FEDRO. Revista de estética y teoría de las artes (www.institucional.us.es/fedro ) of the University of Seville.
Publications
Monographs and edited books:
Primitivismo y modernismo: El Legado de María Blanchard, Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas (Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2007)
Words in Action: Essays in Honour of John Butt, edited with Federico Bonaddio, Special Issue Bulletin of Spanish Studies, lxxxiii, 1 (Glasgow: BHS/ Routledge, 2006)
Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture, edited with Federico Bonaddio (Oxford: Legenda/ EHRC, 2003)
A Companion of Spanish Women's Studies , edited with Geraldine Hazbun (London: Boydel & Brewer, 2011) http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=13512
Chapters in books and articles in Journals:
‘Metamorphic Imagination in Antonio Machado ‘El Poeta’, Hispanic Research Journal, vol 11, n.4 (Sept 2010) 291-307.
‘'El Público de García Lorca y el carnaval del cine’, in Literatura y compromiso. Estudios sobre Federico García Lorca y Miguel Hernández. Coords: Remedios Sánchez García y Ramón Martínez López (Madrid: Visor, 2011), 176-87
'La de Bringas, c’est moi’: Galdós’s debt to Mesonero Romanos’ Festschrift in Honour of Professor Alex Longhurst, eds. James Whiston and Julia Biggane, Special Issue Bulletin of Spanish Studies , vol. 88, ns. 7-8 (2011) 73-84.
'The Mother and the Nation: Reading Contemporary Women's Autobiographies' in Xon de Ros and Geraldine Hazbun (eds), A Companion of Spanish Women's Studies (London: Boydel & Brewer, 2011) 201-16
'Et in Arcadia ego: La melancolla en el jardin modernista' in: Paisaje y Melancolía, Diego Romero de Solis and I Murcia Serrano (eds) (Sevilla: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2011) 319-42
‘Tácticas de incursión de la mujer en la vanguardia: el caso de Blanchard’, chapter commissioned by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, for the exhibition catalogue Maria Blanchard edited by Carmen Bernáldez (UCM) forthcoming 2012
''Cinema in Lorca’', in: A Companion to Federico Garcia Lorca, ed. Federico Bonaddio (London: Tamesis/Boydell & Brewer, 2007), 101-14.
'Reflexiones sobre el rojo: a propósito de María Blanchard.', in: Variaciones sobre el color, Diego Romero de Solis, J. Lopez Lloret, I Murcia Serrano (eds) (Sevilla: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2007), 314-30
'Sánchez Mejías’s Blues', in: Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture, Federico Bonaddio and Xon de Ros (eds.) (Oxford: Legenda, 2003), 81-91
'Science and Myth in Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías’', The Modern Language Review, vol. 95.1 (January 2000), 114-26
'Lorca's El Publico: An Invitation to the Carnival of Film', in Changing Times in Hispanic Culture, ed. Derek Harris (Aberdeen: Centre for the Study of the Hispanic Avant-Garde, 1996), 110-20
'El Espíritu de la colmena.', in: The Cinema of Spain and Portugal, ed. Alberto Mira (London: Walflower Press, 2005), 138-45
'Victor Erice's voluntad de estilo in El espiritu de la colmena', Forum for Modern Languages Studies, 5 (1997), 114-26
'Vacas and Basque Cinema: The Making of a Tradition', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 5 (1997), 225-34
'Gonzalo Suarez's Epilogo', in: Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition, Peter Evans, ed. (Oxford: OUP, 1999), 210-25
'Inocence Lost: Sound and Silence in El espíritu de la colmena', in Sound on Vision: Studies on Spanish Cinema, ed. Robin Fiddian and Ian Michael, Special Issue Bulletin of Spanish Studies, lxxxiv, 1 (Glasgow: BHS, 1999), 27-37
'Buñuel’s Miracles: the Case of Simón del desierto.', in: Buñuel : Siglo XXI, Isabel Santaolalla and Peter Evans (eds.) (Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza., 2004), 72-78
'The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: High Art and Popular Culture.', in: Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice, Jo Labanyi, ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2002), 280-93
Articles in press:
'Poets under the Influence: Machado and Borges' Bulletin of Spanish Studies(forthcoming 2011)
Contributions to encyclopaedias:
Encyclopaedia of European Cinema, ed. Ginette Vicendeau (London: Cassell/BFI, 1995), 104,179,317. 410.
Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture, ed. Eamon Rodgers (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), 11 entries on cinema and the visual arts: 136,163-4, 190, 326, 376-7, 39