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Professor of Hispanic Studies

Email: k dot hooper at warwick dot ac dot uk
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Arts Building
University of ÌÇÐÄTV
Coventry CV4 7AL

Please note: My normal working days are Wednesday-Friday

About

I joined ÌÇÐÄTV in September 2012, after eight years at the University of Liverpool. Between 2012 and 2015, I was holder of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2017, I was elected a Membro Correspondente of the Real Academia Galega, in 2022 a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2026 a . From September 2020 - August 2023 I held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for the project Hispanic London: Culture, Commerce and Community in the Nineteenth-Century CityLink opens in a new window, which has become the book .

Research interests

I'm a specialist in Spanish, Anglo-Spanish, and Galician cultural history since 1800, with interests including the global nineteenth century, mobilities, genealogies, and microhistories. I have particular expertise in Anglo-Spanish connections and in the histories and legacies of Hispanic communities in the United Kingdom.

Encountering Spain

From 2022-2025 I gave a series of talks for the Instituto Cervantes Manchester-Leeds looking at what nineteenth-century British visitors had to say about different areas of Spain (spoiler: some of them were not impressed!). You can watch and listen on YouTube:

Books

• . London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2027.
• . Polity Books, 2022. Co-authored with Jo Labanyi, Elena Delgado, Helena Buffery, and Mari José Olaziregi.
• . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
• Mondariz-Vigo-Santiago: A Brief History of Galicia's Edwardian Tourist BoomLink opens in a new window [FULL TEXT!]. Mondariz: Fundacion Mondariz Balneario, 2013.
• . New York: MLA, 2011. Co-ed. with Manuel Puga Moruxa.
• . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011.
• . Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.

Selected Essays and Book Chapters

• 'Introduction' to Sofía Casanova, . Ed. and Tr. Méghan Elizabeth Hodges. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2026.
• '.' Modern Languages Open. October 2025.
• 'Echoes of the Spanish Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century London.' In Akiko Tsuchiya and Aurelie Vialette, eds. . Albany: SUNY Press, 2025: 40-72.
• 'Rios, fontes, peiraos, and océanos: Hydropoetics and the Galician Cultural Imagination.' In Benita Sampedro Vizcaya and José Losada-Montero, eds. . New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017: 73-89.
• ‘Liverpool and the Luso-Hispanic World: Negotiating Global Histories at Empire’s End.’ In Akiko Tsuchiya and William Acree, eds. . Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2016: 34-59.
• ' [FULL TEXT] Modern Languages Open. October 2014. .
• (2012) '' [FULL TEXT]. Galicia21 Vol. D (2012): 44-56.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Genealogy, Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, 2025
• PGCert in Genealogy, Palaeography, and Heraldry, Strathclyde University, 2023
• PGCert in Digital Humanities, University College London, 2015
• PGCert in Higher Education, University of Liverpool, 2009
• DPhil in Modern Languages, University of Oxford, 2003
• MSt in Slavonic Studies (Polish), University of Oxford, 1998
• BA (Hons) in Modern Languages (Spanish), University of Oxford, 1997