Bryan Cameron
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Office: Thomas Hall 247
610-526-7959
bcameron01@brynmawr.edu
Bryan Cameron is currently at work on two book-length projects on the fin-de-siècle novel. The first, entitled Paternity Tests: Destabilized Authority in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel, explores the metaphor of literary parentage employed by a number of liberal writers (Alas, Blasco Ibáñez, Oller, Pérez Galdós, Sawa) in the wake of the failed liberal program initiated by the Revolution of 1868. The second project, Fractured Identities and Transgressive Practices in the Fin-de-Siècle Novel, is an edited collection that centers on coded representations of lurid textual figures in fin-de-siècle narrative (the flâneur, the dandy, the femme fatale, and the new woman) while scrutinizing the often-overwrought representation of reality in works by a number of European novelists. Professor Cameron is also developing article-length essays on censorship in Francoist cinema by examining the experimental works of understudied Spanish directors such as Pere Portabella, Carlos Durán, Jacinto Esteva, Gonzalo Suárez, and Joaquim Jordà.