Christopher Perriam

Biography

• Born in Exeter, Devon and educated in Taunton (Somerset) and Oxford (Oxfordshire). Now lives in Central Manchester.
• Previous jobs: Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Durham and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Newcastle (Tyne and Wear) 
• Doctoral thesis, and first book, on Pablo Neruda''s poetry after 1958; in mid-career moved from poetry to cinema, and from Chile to Spain, as primary areas of specialism; is now returning to research on Spanish poetry in the context of social issues
• Member of the editorial collective of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and of the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas
• Member of the editorial board of Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, University of Liverpool Press and of the advisory board of Legenda Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
• Member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and the Anglo-Catalan Society (UK) 

Further information

Teaching Areas:

Undergraduate

• Spanish cinema
• World cinema
• Literature in Spanish

Postgraduate

• Cultural Studies
• Spanish and Mexican cinema
• Poetry in Spanish