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Bernard P E Bentley, Senior Lecturer

Bernard P E BentleyContact Details

bpeb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462967
Office: Quad 37

Full research profile

Research and Teaching

I have now focused my research on the Golden Age comedia, especially Calderón's cloak and dagger plays, and Spanish cinema, especially the development of narrative techniques, narratology.

In my time I have had to teach most aspects of a Spanish degree, from language for beginners to final year specialised translation, from the history of the language to contemporary cinema. At present I contribute to all core undergraduate Spanish modules, and to the following:

  • SP5124/26 Spanish Cinema (co-ordinator)
  • SP5201 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film
  • ML5105 Europe and America: dialogues and identity formation in text, film and theory
  • ML5201 Film and Issues of European Identity (co-ordinator)

Annually, I supervise PG MLitt/Phil dissertations on Golden Age Literature and Cinema, and currently one PhD: J R Holmes/Rutherford "Sites of Struggle: Representations of Family in Spanish Cinema (1996-2004)"

PhD Supervision

Vera Burgos-Hernandez

Publications

Bentley, BPE 2012, ' “The ‘Ars vivendi’ of Laura Mañà’s Morir en San Hilario/To Die in San Hilario (2005)” ', Studies in European Cinema .
Bentley, BPE 2012, ' “Joan Bosch’s Bahía de Palma (1962) and Jordi Grau’s La trastienda (1976): mucho ruido y pocas nueces” ', Studies in Hispanic Cinemas .
Bentley, BPE 2012, ' “Antonio Román’s Fuenteovejuna in 1947: the Prisms of the Present” ', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies .
Bentley, BPE 2008 , A Companion to Spanish Cinema, Tamesis.
Bentley, BPE & Cerrillo Torremocha, P 2006 , The Interconnections of the Only Connect Project: translating, mediating and sharing children's literature throughout Europe, CEPLI (UCLM).