Dr. Stewart King
Convenor/Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Studies
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
2000 PhD, La
Trobe University.
1995 Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and
Catalan with First Class Honours, La Trobe University.
Teaching qualifications
2002 Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Monash University.
Subjects Taught
- Spanish Language (beginners)
- Spanish Language (intermediate)
- Spanish Language (advanced)
- Culture and Civilisation of the Hispanic World (second year)
- Dictatorship and Democracy in Contemporary Spanish Fiction (third year)
- Contesting Cultures and Identities in Modern Spain (third year)
- Women's Writing from the Hispanic World (third year)
- Literary Theory and Critical Practice in the European Languages (third year)
- Writing Worlds: The Novel from Cervantes to Calvino (fourth year)
Research Interests
Catalan Studies (for a description of Catalan Studies at Monash, please click here)
- Cultural/national identities and Catalan narrative
- postcolonialism
- Catalan crime fictions
- Castilian-language writers from Catalonia
Spanish literary and cultural studies
- Spanish crime fictions
- Gender, violence and crime in contemporary Spanish culture
- Spanish masculinities
Current Research Projects
My current research focuses on several on-going projects. First, a joint project funded by the British Academy with Dr Shelley Godsland (Manchester Metropolitan University) entitled Crime and Gender in Spain: A Study of Stereotypes in Contemporary Culture . Second, with colleagues from the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics I am researching the representation of violence in popular culture, particularly as it relates to contemporary Spanish narratives. I am continuing my research into Catalan postcolonial studies and Catalan crime fictions.
In 2004 I organised a conference on Mediterranean crime fiction, entitled "Murder and Mayhem in the Mare Nostrum: Contemporary Configurations of Mediterranean Detective Genres" at the Monash Centre in Prato (Italy). For further information on the conference, please click here. Since 2002 I have organised the annual Hispanic Studies Symposium at Monash. For details on the up-coming symposium, please click here. I am also the coordinator of the Hispanic Studies Research Seminar series, which run monthly during semester. The seminars are open to staff, students, and interested individuals. If you would like to present or attend the seminars, please contact me via email or phone (see below for contact details).
Click here for a listing of Dr. Stewart King's publications.
Contact Details
Menzies Building, Room W508
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2118
Fax (School): +61 3
9905 5437
E-mail: Stewart.King@arts.monash.edu.au