Paul Julian Smith is a specialist in cinema, television and visual culture of Spain and Latin America and has been a professor of Spanish Philology at the University of Cambridge since 1991. He is the author of 14 books and some 50 academic articles. He has been a visiting professor at numerous international universities, including Stanford and Berkeley in the United States and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. He is currently a visiting professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute, and Film Quarterly, and a co-founder of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Among his works translated into Spanish are: Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film (Las leyes del deseo: la homosexualidad en la literatura y el cine español, Barcelona, Tempestad, 1997) and Amores perros (Barcelona. Gedisa, 2005). In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Paul Julian Smith is a specialist in cinema, television and visual culture of Spain and Latin America and has been a professor of Spanish Philology at the University of Cambridge since 1991. He is the author of 14 books and some 50 academic articles. He has been a visiting professor at numerous international universities, including Stanford and Berkeley in the United States and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. He is currently a visiting professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute, and Film Quarterly, and a co-founder of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Among his works translated into Spanish are: Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film (Las leyes del deseo: la homosexualidad en la literatura y el cine español, Barcelona, Tempestad, 1997) and Amores perros (Barcelona. Gedisa, 2005). In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
