Dr Will Huddleston

Will is one of our Bye–Fellows, and is Director of Studies in Spanish for the academic year 2025/26.

Biography

Will graduated with First Class Honours in French and Spanish from University College London in 2017, during which he studied at the ENS de Lyon and the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago. At UCL, he was awarded the AA Parker Sessional Prize, the Eva Grunwald Memorial Prize, the Alcalá–Galiano Prize, and the Violet Hall Prize. Following his undergraduate studies, he worked as a teacher in Québec, Canada before completing the MPhil in Latin American Studies at Cambridge in 2020, for which he gained a distinction. His MPhil studies were supported by a Cambridge UK Masters Scholarship. His PhD project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Councils Open–Oxford–Cambridge Doctoral Training Programme and was completed in the Summer of 2025.

Teaching

Will supervises four undergraduate courses in Spanish language and the Spanish–speaking world, and one undergraduate course for the Faculty of History. He also lectures on the MPhil in Latin American Studies.

Research

Will's research explores the history and culture of Latin American sport and its imbrication with wider social, political, cultural and intellectual processes across the continent. His doctoral work focused on football in Uruguay during the first decades of the twentieth century, using the sport as a lens to examine questions of modernity, globalisation, mass culture and identity at a crucial moment in the formation of the Uruguayan nation–state. In popular and academic histories of football, these tournaments have been drastically overlooked, and thus he also aimed to demonstrate that, while football was essential to the invention of modern Uruguay, Uruguay in turn was also central to the sports emergence as the hyperglobal cultural object it is today.