Dr Geoffrey Maguire
Geoffrey is one of our Bye–Fellows, as Director of Studies in Spanish. He is also a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College.
Biography
Geoffrey studied for his first degree in French and Spanish at both the University of St Andrews and the Paris–Sorbonne. He then returned to St Andrews to complete an MLitt in Spanish and Latin American, and came to Cambridge for his PhD in Latin American Studies. He sits on Steering Committee of Cambridge Reproduction and the Management Team of the lgbtQ+@Cam programme, which promotes research, outreach and network building related to queer, trans and sexuality studies across the University. He is also the Project Co–Lead of the Queer Conceptions research network. Beyond the University, he is a Trustee of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) and of the Cambridge Film Trust, which runs the annual Cambridge Film Festival.
Teaching
Geoffrey teaches and lectures broadly on undergraduate papers for the Section of Spanish and Portuguese, as well as on the MPhil courses in MMLL, Film Studies, Gender Studies and the Centre of Latin American Studies. He also supervises Year Abroad Projects, Optional Dissertations, MPhil essays and theses on a broad range of topics in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema, literature and visual art. He is currently the Director of Postgraduate Studies in Latin American Studies (CLAS). Geoffrey welcomes questions from prospective MPhil and doctoral students in any of the areas of his research interests.
Research
Geoffrey specialises in contemporary Latin American film, literature and visual art, with particular interests in cultural memory, queer representation, and sexuality and gender. His current research project, Un/Natural: Marine Sexualities and the Queer Ecological, draws contemporary queer theory into dialogue with the blue humanities and marine biology through a range of contemporary literary, cinematic and artistic texts. He is the author of Bodies of Water (2024), The Politics of Postmemory (2017) and, with Rachel Randall, New Visions of Adolescence (2018). In 2024, he was the Hunt–Simes Visiting Chair in Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney.