AUTOR
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla, España
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is originally from Spain, but completed his high school at the Lycee Espagnol in Paris. He studied Art History at University College London where he was taught by Tamar Garb, Helen Weston and Briony Fer.After teaching at Duke University and gaining a Masters in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California Berkeley, Julian Daniel went to the University of Cambridge to pursue a PhD in the field of Spanish and Latin American Cinema under the direction of Paul Julian Smith. He obtained his PhD in 2005 and he remains grateful to the knowledge in Hispanic Studies, Film Studies and Queer Theory he acquired from his thesis director and from Jo Labanyi. Subsequently, he taught in the US from 2004 to 2007 before going to Newcastle University in the UK where he taught Spanish and Latin American Cinema. At Newcastle University, Julian Daniel worked very closely with colleagues in Film Studies and Latin American Studies. He remains very proud of his students in these two graduate programs. Julian Daniel has published a book on the cinema of Luis Bunuel, entitled: Queering Bunuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema, and numerous book chapters and articles in the field of Spanish and Latin American Cinema, including the cinema of Almodovar, Walter Salles or Lucrecia Martel. He is very interested in Feminist and Queer Studies and Psychoanalysis. Julian Daniel is currently working on a book on ethics, memory, and subjectivity in contemporary Spanish cinema and editing a book on women filmmakers in the Hispanic and Lusophone world and a Companion to Bunuel.