Dr Stewart King - Researcher Profile

Biography

Originally from Sydney, I lived in India and Canberra, but grew up in Melbourne. My interest in Spanish language and culture dates from 1988 when I started learning the language privately before travelling throughout Spain in 1989-90. I became interested in Catalan culture through friends and, as part of my B.A. at La Trobe University, I studied history, Spanish and Catalan language and literature. Thanks to several grants from the Australian and Catalan governments, I was able to study in Barcelona, where I lived on and off for several years whilst completing my PhD. I returned to Australia in 1999 and since then have taught Spanish language, cultural and literary studies at La Trobe and Monash Universities.

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2003

Publications

Books

King, S. (ed), 2007, Beyond the periphery: narratives of identity in the Basque Country, catalonia and Galicia, Antipodas, Melbourne VIC Australia.

Browitt, J., King, S., Martinez Exposito, A. (eds), 2006, Introduction to the theme 'Masculinity and Violence in Spain and Latin America, Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, http://www.ailasa.org.

King, S., 2005, Escribir la Catalanidad: Lengua e Identidades Culturales en la Narrativa Contemporade Catalun, Tamesis, Woodbridge Suffolk UK.

King, S. (ed), 2005, La cultura catalana de expression castellana. Estudios de literature, teatro y cine, Reichenberger, Kassell: Germany.

King, S., Browitt, J. (eds), 2004, The Space of Culture. Critical readings in Hispanic Studies, University of Delaware Press, Newark, Delaware, USA.

Paredes, J., King, S. (eds), 1999, IXQUIC Revista hispanica internacional de analisis y creacion, Department of Hispanic Studies, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

King, S., 2012, Distopia y detectives: La ficcion criminal de Jordi de Manuel, in El Genero Negro: el Fin de la Frontera, eds Javier Sanchez Zapatero and Alex Martin Escriba, Andavira Editora, Santiago de Compostela A Coruna Spain, pp. 111-116.

King, S., 2012, 'Don't forget the Tejedor': Community and identity in the crime fiction of Rosa Ribas, in The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations, eds Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti, Continuum International, London United Kingdom, pp. 75-86.

King, S., 2012, Dystopia and detectives: Jordi de Manuel's crime fiction, in Noir Fiction: The End of Borders, eds Javier Sanchez Zapatero and Alex Martin Escriba, Andavira Editora, Santiago de Compostela Spain, pp. 111-117.

King, S., 2011, Catalan narrative 1970-2005, in Where the Rivers Meet: Jesus Moncada, eds Kathryn Crameri, Five Leaves, Nottingham UK, pp. 22-41.

King, S., 2011, Detecting difference/constructing community in Basque, Catalan and Galician crime fiction, in Iberian Crime Fiction, eds Nancy Vosburg, University of Wales Press, Cardiff Wales, pp. 51-74.

King, S., 2010, El otro 'boom' literario: Carme Riera y la narrativa catalana contemporanea (1970-2007), in Lire Carme Riera. A propos de La meitat d'anima / Llegir Carme Riera. A proposit de La meitat da??anima, eds Fabrice Corrons and Sandrine Frayssinhes Ribes, Editions de la Tour Gile, Perronas, France, pp. 43-63.

King, S., 2010, From literature to letters: rethinking Catalan literary history, in New Spain, New Literatures, eds Luis Martin-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini, Vanderbilt University Press, Tennessee, USA, pp. 233-244.

King, S., 2009, Articulating and disarticulating culture and identity in Vazquez Montalban's Serie Carvalho, in Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction, eds Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M Quinn, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 27-42.

King, S., 2009, The criminal past: violence, memory and community in the Basque Country in Jose Javier Abasolo's Nadie es inocente, in Guerra y Memoria en la Espana Contemporanea / War and Memory in Contemporary Spain, eds Alison Ribeiro De Menezes, Roberta Ann Quance and Anne L. Walsh, Editorial Verbum, Madrid, pp. 243-256.

King, S., 2006, "Fear and Fascination": women, ETA and the crisis of masculinity in contemporary Spain, in Violent Depictions: Representing Violence Across Cultures, eds Susanna Scarparo and Sarah McDonald, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle UK, pp. 47-66.

King, S., 2005, ?Un Problema de Identidad? La Cultura Catalana de Expresion Castellana [A problem of identity? The expression Castilian Catalan culture], in La Cultura Catalana de Expresion Castellana. Estudios de Literatura, Teatro y Cine, eds Stewart King, Edition Reichenberger, Kassel Germany, pp. 1-13.

King, S., 2005, Escritores en Castellano y la Literatura Catalana: Una Vision Multiculturalista [Writers in Castilian and Catalan literature: a multicultural vision], in La Cultura Catalana de Expresion Castellana. Estudios de Literatura, Teatro y Cine, eds Stewart King, Edition Reichenberger, Kassel Germany, pp. 31-46.

King, S., 2005, 'Timido, reprimido o simplemente torpe' : la masculinidad parodiada en El misterio de la cripta embrujada, El laberinto de las aceitunas y La aventura del tocador de senoras, in La Verdad Sobre el caso Eduardo Mendoza, eds Jose V. Saval, Fundamentos, Madrid Spain, pp. 195-208.

King, S., 2004, Catalonia and the postcolonial condition, in The Space of Culture: Critical Readings in Hispanic Studies, eds Stewart King and Jeff Browitt, Associated University Presses, Cranbury USA, pp. 39-53.

King, S., 2003, 'Condenada a la modernidad': memoria e identidad cultural en la novela criminal gallega ('Condemned to Modernity': Memory and Cultural Identity in Galician Crime Fiction), in Memorias y olividos: autos y biografias (reales, ficticias) en la cultura hispanica (Memory and Forgetting: auto/biographies (real, fictitious) in Hispanic Culture, eds J Perez Magallon, R de la Fuente Ballesteros and K M Sibbald, Universitas Castellae, Valladolid Spain, pp. 183-193.

Journal Articles

Godsland, S., King, S., 2008, Detecting discontent: contemporary crises in Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Los pajaros de Bangkok, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol 9, issue 1, Routledge, London UK, pp. 1-17.

King, S., 2007, Peripheral detectives and detectives on the periphery: crime fiction in the nacionalidades historicas, Antipodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, vol 18, Antipodas, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 265-285.

King, S., 2007, Preface, Antipodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, vol 18, Antipodas, Melbourne, VIC, pp. 1-4.

King, S., 2007, Reconstructing the nation and the detective novel: Carlos G. Reigosa's Crime en Compostela, Galician Review, vol 5-6, Centre for Galician Studies, University of Birmingham, Centre for Galician Studies, Queen's College, United Kingdom, pp. 82-96.

King, S., 2006, Catalan literature(s) in postcolonial context, Romance Studies, vol 24, issue 3, Maney Publishing, Leeds UK, pp. 253-264.

Godsland, S., King, S., 2006, Crimes present, motives past: a function of national history in the contemporary Spanish detective novel, Clues: A Journal of Detection, vol 24, issue 3, Heldref Publications, USA, pp. 30-40.

King, S., 2005, 'Un personaje genuinamenta espanol': national discourses in Jorge Martinez Reverte's Galvez en Euskadi, Hispanic Research Journal, vol 6, issue 1, Maney Publishing, UK, pp. 29-38.

King, S., 2002, Un acento propio? Cultural difference in Castilian-language literature from Catalonia, Letras Peninsulares, vol 15, issue 2, Davidson North Carolina USA, pp. 287-301.

King, S., 1999, Desempe?ar papeles y la desmitificacion cultural en El amante bilingue de Juan Marse, JILAS ~ Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, vol . 5 no.1, Assoc. of Iberian & Latin American Studies (AUS), Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 73-85.

King, S., 1999, Transformando el Estado espa?ol: los discursos centripeto y centrifugo en la literatura catalana de expresion castellana, IXQUIC Revista hispanica internacional de analisis y creacion, vol 1, Department of Hispanic Studies Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 23-36.

Other

King, S., 2011, Barcelona in literature, World Literature in Spanish, vol 1, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 84-87.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A Spanish-language abridged version of Michael Parenti's Contrary Notions. A translation and exegesis of a scholarly book in the social sciences..

Supervisors:

Wilson, R (Main), King, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

El Rei, L'Heroi i El Captaire: Les Veus Multiples de Tirant lo Blanc..

Supervisors:

King, S (Main), Mcdonald, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

No Ordinary Woman - Dolores Garcia Negrete.

Supervisors:

King, S (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Lewis, P.

Program of Study:

Trans/figurations: gender crossing in contemporary Latin American written and visual narratives. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Nelson, B (Main), King, S (Associate).

Student:

Lopez Castellano, R.

Program of Study:

The writing of Leopoldo Maria Panero: subjectivity and multiplicity. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

King, S (Main), Anderson, P (Associate).