Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Undergraduate Studies 

Library Liaison for Modern Languages

Qualifications

1984 Honours degree in Spanish and Librarianship, University of Wales

1988 Masters degree in Spanish, University of Wales

1999 Ph.D in Spanish, King's College London, on 'Changing Gender Relations in Don Juan Plays'

Previous Positions 

Degree Programme Director, T900 Modern Languages 

Degree Programme Director, MA in Film Studies

Memberships

Membership Secretary, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)

Member of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (WISPS)

Research Interests

Spanish and Latin American cinema, particularly contemporary Spanish cinema, crime and horror
Landscape, space and place in Spanish culture
Spanish cultural studies
Gender in film and narrative
Generic narratives (Don Juan, Carmen, the vampire)
Spanish nationalisms and regional identities (particularly the Basque Country and Catalonia)

Current Work

Currently writing on landscape in Spanish culture (film and literature); Penélope Cruz; sound and visionscapes;

Theorisations of monster in both Hispanic and US films and TV.

Postgraduate Supervision

Supervised to competion PhD on contemporary Spanish film stars and PhD on theorisation of the auteur in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Willing to supervise work on Spanish and Latin American film, the vampire in film.

Esteem Indicators

External Examiner, Birkbeck College 

Member of AHRC Peer Review College

Funding

2006 AHRC Research Leave
2007 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant

Undergraduate Teaching

SML1021 Introduction to International Film
SML4099 Dissertation
SPA2005 Key Directors of Spanish and Latin American Cinema
SPA4003 Recent Spanish and Mexican Cinema
SPA4004 Spain After 1975

SPA4061 Level D Spanish Languages 

Postgraduate Teaching

FMS8357 Cinematic Others 

FMS8358 Screen Aesthetics

Office Hours

Wednesdays 11-12 and 4-5 (semester 1 only) 

• Davies A. All About Almodovar. A Passion for Cinema [book review]. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2011, 88(1), 137-138.
• Davies A. Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
• Davies A. Singing of dubious desire: Imperio Argentina and Penélope Cruz as Nazi Germany’s exotic Other. In: Shaw, L., Stone, R, ed. Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2012.
• Davies A, ed. Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Davies A. The Final Girl and Monstrous Mother of El orfanato. In: Davies, A, ed. Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.79-92.
• Davies A. Daniel Calparsoro. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
• Davies A. Criminality and the Left in Spanish Retro Noir Films. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2009, 15(1), 15-28.
• Davies A. Woman and Home: Gender and the Theorisation of Basque (National) Cinema. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2009, 10(3), 359-372.
• Davies A. Ana Díez: Basque cinema, Gender and the Home(land). In: Gutiérrez-Albilla, J.D., Nair, P, ed. Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Critical Discourses and Cinematic Practices. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. In Press.
• Davies A. Guillermo del Toro's Cronos: the Vampire as Embodied Heterotopia. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 2008, 25(5), 395-403.
• Davies A. The femme fatale of Spanish Retro Noir: the Recuperation of a Repressed Voice. In: O'Rawe, C; Hanson, H, ed. The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp.145-156.
• Powrie P, Babington B, Davies A, Perriam C. Carmen on Film : A Cultural History. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Davies A. Pedro Almodóvar. London: Grant and Cutler, 2007.
• Davies A. Spanish neo-noir. In: Spicer, A, ed. European Film Noir. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp.210-235.
• Davies A. Can the Contemporary Crime Thriller be Spanish?. Studies in European Cinema 2005, 2(3), 173-183.
• Davies A, Powrie P. Carmen on Screen: an Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2006.
• Davies A. High and Low Culture: Bizet's Carmen and the Cinema. In: Powrie, P., Stilwell, R, ed. Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.46-56.
• Davies A. Resurrecting Carmen: Sexual and Ethnic Identity in the Cinema. In: Wintle, M, ed. Image into Identity: Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp.211-222.
• Davies A. The Beautiful and Monstrous Masculine: the Male Body and Horror in El espinazo del diablo. Studies in Hispanic Cinema 2006, 3(3), 135-147.
• Davies A. Carmen. In: Marshall, B, ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History. Oxford/Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005, pp.214-215.
• Perriam C, Davies A. Carmen: from Silent Film to MTV. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
• Davies A. Roads to nowhere: How Basque terrorists cross space and place in cinema. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 2005, 82(3), 343-355.
• Davies A. The Male Body and the Female Gaze in Carmen Films. In: Powrie, Phil, Davies, Ann and Babington, Bruce, ed. The Trouble With Men: Exploring Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema. London: Wallflower Press, 2004, pp.187-195.
• Davies A. The Metamorphoses of Don Juan's Women: Early Parity to Late Modern Pathology. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 2004.
• Davies A. The Spanish Femme Fatale and the Cinematic Negotiation of Spanishness. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 2004, 1(1), 5-16.
• Davies A. Male Sexuality and Basque Separatism in Two Films by Imanol Uribe. Hispanic Research Journal 2003, 4(2), 121-132.
• Davies A. Don Juan and Foucauldian Sexual Discourse: Changing Attitudes to Female Sexuality. In: Batley, E; Bradby, D, ed. Morality and Justice: The Challenge of European Theatre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001, pp.159-170.
• Davies A. Hysteria: Female Desire and Male Rationality in Early Don Juan Works. In: Ginger, A; Hobbs, J; Lewis, H, ed. Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
• Davies A. Inés and Brígida: Sexual Presence and Absence in Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 1999, LXXVI(3), 327-336.
• Davies Ann. Who is the Model Reader of Miguel Delibes’s "Cinco horas con Mario"?. Modern Language Review 1999, 94(4), 1000-1008.