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Professor Mercedes Camino
Professor of Hispanic and European Cultural History
Degree: PhD (University of Auckland, New Zealand with UCSD)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Dynamics of Memories
Current Teaching
- HIST230: Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War (1931-2010)
- HIST231: Mapping Terra Incognita: Exploration of the Americas and the Pacific 1492-1794
- HIST353: Out of the Ordinary: Film and Memory of Twentieth-Century Wars, Local Wars and Dirty Wars
- HIST414: Advanced Cultural History
Research Interests
I am currently embarking on a comparative study of the memorialisation of the resistance in occupied countries during WWII. This is a cultural history project which uses film as its primary source.
My last project concentrates on the use of women and children as points of identification in films dealing with the Spanish maquis of the 1940s. Besides films made during the Franco era, some productions studied in relation to this are: Days of the Past (1978), One, Two, Three ... Fire! (1975), Broken Silence (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006). This work, Memory, Film and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War: Resistance and Guerrilla 1936-2010 (Palgrave, 2011), deals with film on the anti-Franco guerrilla fighters during Spanish Civil War and its aftermath.
My previous book, Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794 (Manchester University Press, 2008), extends the research done for my third book, Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Pacific Exploration 1567-1606 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005), to include Spanish voyages to the Pacific during the eighteenth century. This book is interdisciplinary, using journals, ethnographic information, artifacts and maps in order to scrutinise the encounters between the voyagers and the indigenous peoples, emphasising cross-cultural interaction.
To complete my fourth book, I was awarded a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand from (2004-6) as part of a team with two anthropologists, Professor Dame Anne Salmond (University of Auckland) and Dr Amiria Henare (Cambridge University), as well as doctoral students. The project also benefited from fellowships and grants from the History of Cartography project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005), The University of Auckland and Lancaster University. For the completion of my previous book on early voyages, I obtained another Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand (2002-2003), as well as fellowships from the American Geographical Society (Milwaukee, 2000), National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, 2001), Newberry Library (Chicago, 1999), Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998) and University of Auckland.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a funding member and director of the research cluster, Dynamics of Memories (www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/dynamicsofmemories), which has been supported by HERA (2009), Lancaster University and the AHRC (1011-13)
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Memory Studies, Film Studies, Early Modern Exploration,Colonialism, History of Cartography, Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Grants
Major Grants:
2011-13 Arts and Humanities Research Council. Research Networking Grant £25,000. Principal Investigator.
2004-6 Marsden Grant from Royal Society of New Zealand. NZ$180,000 (60,000 per year for three years). Project with Anne Salmond and Amiria Henare (total $540,000 or $180,000 per year for three years).
2002-03 Fast Start Marsden Grant from Royal Society of New Zealand. NZ$100,000 (50,000 per year for two years).
2000 Early Career Research Excellence Award. University of Auckland. $30,000.
International Awards:
2008 HERA JRP Networking Grant for Dynamics of Memories (Principal Investigator) €3,000.
2008 British Academy Conference Grant
2004 Holzheimer-Woodward Memorial Fellowship. US$7000
2002 Scholarship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain). €3,600
2001 Short-Term Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), £4,500
2000 J. Best Fellowship. American Geographical Society at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. US$1,500
1998 Hermon Dunlap Smith Center Fellowship. Newberry Library (Chicago). US$1,600
1996 Scholarship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain) NZ$9,000.
1995 J. B. Harley Fellowship. British Library (London). £400
1993 Hermon Dunlap Smith Center Fellowship. Newberry Library (Chicago). US$2,400
Research Publications
Research Publications:
Books:
2011 Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War: Resistance and Guerrilla 1936-2010. London: Palgrave MacMillan
2008 Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2005 Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives (1567-1606). Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
2001 Practising Places: Lazarillo, Saint Teresa and the Early Modern City. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
1995 The Stage am I: Raping Lucrece in Early Modern England. Salzburg: University Studies 120. Salzburg/New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Refereed Journal Articles:
2011 '"Volvemos a empezar": Return Journeys of the Spanish Maquis'. Ed. Derek Flitter and Sally Faulkner. Special Issue of Journal and Iberian and Latin American Research 17.1 (2011): 27-39.
2010 '"Good luck with the strike'": Mining, Dancing and Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot'. Film International 8.5 (2010): 29-39.
2010 '"Vivir sin ti": Motherhood, Melodrama and Spanishness in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre (1999) and Volver' (2006). Bulletin of Spanish Studies 87.5 (2010): 625-42.
2010 'Blood of an Innocent: Guillermo del Toro's Laberinto del fauno (2006) and Montxo Armendariz's Silencio roto (2001)'. Studies in Hispanic Cinema 6.1 (2010): 45-64.
2007 'Negotiating Woman: Ana Caro's El Conde Partinuplés'. Tulsa's Journal of Women's Studies 26. 2 (2007): 199- 216.
2007 'Women, War and Wounds: The Spanish Civil War in The Spirit of the Beehive and Soldiers of Salamina'. International Journal of Iberian Studies 20.2 (2007): 91-104.
2007 'A Spanish Mission in Tahiti: Coastal Views and Eighteenth-century Cultural Syncretism'. The Globe 58 (2007): 6-20.
2005 'Madrid me mata: Killing the Husband in Pedro Almodóvar's ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? and Alex de la Iglesia's La comunidad'. Forum for Modern Language Studies 41.3 (2005): 333-42.
2005 ''The War Is So Young': Journalism and Male Bonding in Welcome to Sarajevo and Territorio Comanche'. Studies in European Cinema 2.2 (2005): 115-24.
2004 'To eat or not to eat: Feasting and Fasting in Tirso's El burlador de Sevilla and Buñuel's El discreto encanto de la burguesía'. In Memoriam Paco Rabal. Estudios sobre el cine peninsular. Spanish Cinema Studies. Monographic Issue of Letras Peninsulares 16.1 (Spring 2003 [2004]): 249-61.
2004 '"¡Volviose en luto la boda!": Ritual and the Technologies of Power in Fuente Ovejuna'. Modern Language Review 99.2 (April 2004): 382-93.
2003 '"Las naves de la conquista"': Woman and the Fatherland in El burlador de Sevilla'. Bulletin of the Comediantes 55.1 (2003): 69-86.
2003 'Staging the Southern Continent'. The Globe 54 (2003): 13-22.
2003 ''Esta sangre quiero': Secrets and Discovery in Lope's El perro del hortelano'. Hispanic Review 71: 1 (Winter 2003): 15-30.
2002 'The Museum and the Forum: Greenwich's The Price of Tea and Te Papa's Virgin in a Condom. Te Ara: Journal of Museums Aotearoa 27.2 (November 2002): 26-31.
2002 '"En distintas cuadras": Engendering the Americas in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa'. Romance Studies 20.2 (2002): 155-64.
2001 'Transvestism, Translation and Transgression: Angela de Azevedo's El muerto disimulado'. Forum for Modern Language Studies 37. 3 (2001): 314-325.
2000 'Producing the City: Bird's-Eye Views and Social Control in Hapsburg Spain'. Cartographica 36.3 (Fall 1999): 17-30.
1999 'A Waxen World: Early Modern Women's Geographical (Un)Awareness'. Parergon 16.1 (1999): 101-32.
1997 '(Un)folding the Map of Early Modern Ireland: Spenser, Moryson and Bartlett'. Cartographica 34.4 (Fall 1997): 123-59.
1996 'Ficción, afición y seducción: Ana Caro's Valor, agravio y mujer'. Bulletin of the Comediantes 48.1 (Summer 1996): 37-50.
1994 '"Spindles for Swords": The Re/Dis-covery of María de Zayas' Presence'. Hispanic Review 62 (1994): 39-51.
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Sections in books:
2011 'Ceremonial Encounters: Spanish Perceptions of Austrialia'. Perceptions of Terra Australis. Ed. Alfred Hiatt, Anne Scott and Chris Wortham (Farnharm: Ashgate). 117-39.
2011 'Ceremonial Encounters: Spanish Perceptions of Austrialia'. Perceptions of Terra Australis. Ed. Alfred Hiatt, Anne Scott and Chris Wortham (Farnharm: Ashgate). 117-39.
2009 'Mission to Tahiti: Maps and Narratives 1772-75'. Ed. Lisa Bailey, Lindsay Diggelmann and Kim M. Phillips. Old Worlds, New Worlds: European Cultural Encounters, c. 1100 - c. 1750. Brepols. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies Series. 183-210.
2009 'Ser mujer, ni estar ausente': Sor Juana's Silence in María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas/ I, The Worst of All (1992). Identity, Nation and Discourse: Latin American Women Writers and Artists. Ed. Claire Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 191-206.
2007 'Cross-cultural Engagements in the South Pacific: Quirós' Austrialia 1606'. Pedro Fernàndez de Quiros et le Vanuatu: Découverte mutuelle et historiographie d'un acte fondateur, 1606. Ed. Angleviel Frédéric. Port Vila (Vanuatu): Délégation de l'Union européenne au Vanuatu & Groupe de Recherche en Histoire Océanienne, 2007. 57-83.
2001 'Maps, Traffic and Representation: The Iberian Pacific from Magellan to Queirós'. Crossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics. Ed. Rudolphus Teeuwen and Shu-Li Chang. Taipei: Bookman. 203-25.
2001 'Representaciones del Pacífico 1519-1606'. Imperios y Naciones en el Pacífico. Ed. Mª Dolores Elizalde, Josep M. Fradera and Luis Alonso. Madrid: AECI-CSIC, 2000. 154-76.
1996 '"My honour I'll bequeath unto the knife": Public Heroism, Private Sacrifice, and Renaissance Lucretias'. Imagining Culture: Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Jonathan Hart. New York: Garland Press, 1996. 95-107 and 203-08.
1996 '"That map which deep impression bears": The Politics of Conquest in Lucrece'. Shakespeare: World Views. Ed. Robin Eaden, Madge Mitton and Heather Kerr. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1996. 124-45.
1993 'Mapping terra incognita: The Reification of America in the Works of Hernán Cortés, Amerigo Vespucci, and Thomas More'. Travellers' Tales, Real and Imaginary, in the Hispanic World and Its Literature. Ed. Alun Kenwood. Melbourne and Madrid: Voz Hispánica, 1993. 7-22.
LECTURES and PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
Funded and Keynote Lectures:
2010 'El melodrama fascista y la memoria cinematográficas de los maquis de Dos caminos (1954) a El laberinto del fauno (2006)'. (St Andrews)
2009 'Return Journeys of the Spanish Maquis: Film and Memory' (Exeter)
2009 'Mapping Terra Australis Incognita: the Spanish Pacific 1519-1794' (Keynote Speaker at University of Western Australia)
2009 'Memory Wars and Guerrillas: The Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain' (Exeter)
2008 'La guerrilla de los enlaces en el cine, de Dos caminos (1953) de Arturo Ruiz-Castillo a El laberinto del fauno (2006) de Guillermo del Toro (Barcelona)
2008 'Sangre de un inocente' Guillermo del Toro's Laberinto del fauno (2006) and Montxo Armendariz's Silencio roto (2001) (Santa Cruz de Moya). Partly funded (subsistence and internal travel)
2006 'Torres, Quirós and Austrialia del Espíritu Santo 1606'. Spanish Mariners: Commemoration of Torres' Anniversary (Melbourne).
2003 'Performing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Sixteenth-Century Exploration'. 'Conceptualising the Pacific'. Huntington Library (San Marino).
2000 'The Iberian Pacific: Maps and Narratives 1519-1606'. National Sun Yat-sen University, (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
1999 'The City and the Book: Urban Representation from Christine de Pizan to the Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. Nebenzahl Lectures (Chicago).
1999 'Representaciones del Pacífico 1519-1606'. Asociación de Estudios del Pacifíco (Madrid). Partly funded.
1998 'Rich in Silver, Rich in Gold: Iberian Explorers' Mapping the Oceanic Island 1519-1640'. Vasco da Gama Congresso (Lisbon).
Invited Lectures (including Plenaries):
2009 Historical Memory in Spain (Seminar History Department, Perth)
2009 'Only a Woman': The (In)Visibility of Women's Resistance in Spain: War and Guerilla in Film (Lisbon)
2008 'Blood of an Innocent: Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Montxo Armendariz's Broken Silence (2001)' (Kent).
2008 'Guerrilla, Gender and 'Spanishness' in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006), (Denton, Texas)
2008 Maquis Without Weapons: Women in Silencio roto (2001) and El laberinto del fauno (2006) (Cardiff)
2007 Ofelia in Wonderland: Women and the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth (2006). WISPS (Manchester)
2007 'Exploring the Explorers: Mapping Spaniards in Oceania, 1567-1794' (Auckland)
2007 War, Wounds and Women: The Spanish Civil War in Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive and David Trueba's Soldiers of Salamis (Lancaster, DELC)
2007 '"Ser mujer, ni estar ausente": Sor Juana's Silence in María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas/ I, The Worst of All (1992)'. (Liverpool).
2006 'Exploring the Explorers: Mapping Spaniards in Oceania, 1567-1794' (Lancaster, History Department)
2006 'Women, War and Absence: The Spanish Civil War in The Spirit of the Beehive and Soldiers of Salamina'. Conference on Spanish Civil War (Bristol)
2006 'Strike Back: Daldry's Billy Elliott and Loach's Bread and Roses'. European Cinema (Swansea)
2005 'Viceroy Amat's Tahiti: Maps and Narratives 1772-75'. Australian Map Circle (Melbourne)
2005 'Viceroy Amat's Tahiti: Maps and Narratives 1772-75'. ANZAMEMS (Auckland).
2005 'Poverty and Picaresque'. Forum at ANZAMEMS (Auckland).
2004 'Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration 1595-1789'. New World Societies Seminar (History Department, University of Auckland)
2004 'Madrid me mata: Killing the Husband in Pedro Almodóvar's ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? and Alex de la Iglesia's La comunidad'. AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia) (Adelaide)
2003 'Europe, Imagination, Prostitution: Almodóvar's All About My Mother'. European Studies (Auckland)
2003 'War Souvenirs: Mapping Sarajevo 1992-95'. Plenary. History of Cartography (Boston).
2003 '"To eat or not to eat: Feasting and Fasting in Tirso's El burlador de Sevilla and Buñuel's El discreto encanto de la burguesía". AULLA (Wellington, New Zealand)
2002 'Staging the Southern Continent'. Australian Map Circle (Cairns)
2001 'The Sea Explorer and His City: From Columbus to Drake'. 'The Sea and the City' (London)
2001 'La última invención: Quirós y el Pacífico'. Plenary.History of Cartography (El Escorial, Madrid)
2000 '"En distintas cuadras": Engendering the Americas in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa'. Modern Language Association (Washington)
1999 'The City and the Book: Urban Representation from Christine de Pizan to the Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. (Auckland)
1999 'Bird's-eye Views and Social Control in Habsburg Spain'. AILASA (Melbourne)
1999 'The City's Story: Urban Representation from Christine de Pizan to Saint Theresa of Avila'. Women and Society 1550-1700 (Melbourne).
1999 'Representing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives 1519-1606'. Plenary. (Chicago Map Society)
1999 'Producing the City: Bird's-Eye Views and Social Control in Hapsburg Spain'.(Newberry Library Colloquium (Chicago).
1997 'Collecting City Views: Visions of Exile of the Spanish Baroque'. Art History Department's Collectors and Collecting Series (Auckland)
1997 'Teresa of Avila and the Poetics of Spatial Isolation' AILASA (Auckland)
1997 'Urban Views of the Spanish Early Modern Age". NZ Map Society (Helensville)
1995 "Parienta o amiga': Ana Caro, María de Zayas and the Zest of Female Friendship in the Golden Age'. Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (New York)
1994 'Besieging Lucretia: The Body, the Place and the City of Early Modern Rape'. Modern Language Association (San Diego)
1994 '"My honour I'll bequeath unto the knife": Public Heroism, Private Sacrifice, and Renaissance Lucretias'. International Comparative Literature Association (Alberta)
1993 '"Methinks I see an evil lurk unespied": Visualizing Conquest in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland'. (Renaissance Society of America, Kansas City)
1993 '"This helpless smoke of words": The Voicing of Discourse and Shakespeare's Lucrece' Shakespeare Association of America (Atlanta)
1992 '"Spindles for Swords": The Re/Dis-covery of María de Zayas' Presence' (Auckland)
1992 ''That map which deep impression bears': The Politics of Conquest in Hernán Lucrece'. Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (Adelaide)
1991 '"A pair of maiden worlds unconquered": Spenser's Map, Shakespeare's Lucrece, and the Renaissance Codpiece'. Women's Studies (Auckland)
1991 'Mapping terra incognita: The Reification of America in the Works of Cortés, Amerigo Vespucci, and Thomas More' (Monash University, Melbourne)
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
2006-2007 Reader in Spanish, Lancaster University
2003-2006 Associate Professor in Spanish, University of Auckland
1998-2003 Senior Lecturer in Spanish, University of Auckland
1995-1998 Lecturer in Spanish, University of Auckland
1994 Tutor in Spanish, University of Auckland
1994 Assistant Lecturer in English, University of Auckland
1989-1993 Teaching Fellow in English, University of Auckland
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Mercedes Camino has 6 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Camino, Mercedes (2009) ‘Ser mujer, ni estar ausente’: Sor Juana’s Silence in María Luisa Bemberg’s Yo, la peor de todas/ I, The Worst of All (1992). In: Identity, Nation and Discourse: Latin American Women Writers and Artists. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1443803472
Camino, Mercedes (2007) A Spanish Mission in Tahiti: Coastal Views and Eighteenth-century Cultural Syncretism. The Globe, 59. pp. 6-20. ISSN 0311-3930
Maroto Camino, Mercedes (2005) ‘The war is so young’:masculinity and war correspondence in Welcome to Sarajevo and Territorio Comanche. Studies in European Cinema, 2 (2). pp. 115-124. ISSN 1741-1548
Maroto-Camino, M. (2005) Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567-1606). Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-1994-8
Maroto-Camino, M. (2003) 'Esta Sangre Quiero':Secrets and Discovery in Lope's El Perro del Hortelano. Hispanic Review, 71 (1). pp. 15-30.
Maroto-Camino, M. (2001) Practising Places: Saint Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City. Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-1344-3
Other Interests and Hobbies
Fellwalking
Associated Keywords: Cross-cultural encounters, Early modern culture, Early modern women's writing, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, European, European identity, European languages, Exploration, Film studies, Media, Memory, Sixteenth-century literature, Spanish, Twentieth century history, Voyages, Women's studies
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Contact Details
Tel: (5)94936
Room: Bowland, B151
Office Hour: Tuesday 11:00-1:00