University of Cambridge

Post-Doc, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Associate

About

Samuel Llano is a cultural historian who specialises in the theatre, music and performance cultures of Spain. His work explores how these genres help to articulate a variety of social discourses and forms of identification, as well as Spain’s relations with other countries. His current research deals with stage representations of wrongdoing in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spain. More particularly, his work addresses how the intersection of crime and deviance with notions of sexuality, race, gender and class has served to define and control various social groups, including gypsies and women, during Spain's process of modernisation. His research covers representations of Don Juan and donjuanismo in theatrical and musical parodies, as well as the image of gypsies and women on the Spanish stage at the turn of the twentieth century.

Llano’s previous work deals with representations of Spanish music and culture in early-twentieth century Paris, and questions of identity in Spanish Republican exile. Llano has published on these subjects in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana and various collective volumes. His monograph Whose Spain?: Music, Identity and the Hispanistes in Paris, 1909-1929 will be published by Oxford University Press in 1912.

Since 2002, I have collaborated in the online music journal Mundoclasico.com, to which I have contributed concert reviews and articles.

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