William J Nichols

His primary research interest focuses on exploring the perceptions of Spain's modern identity through the interrelation between politics, cultural production and capitalism in contemporary peninsular literature and film as well as other forms of cultural expression like music and museum expositions. He has published on diverse themes like detective fiction, corporate culture, tourism, food, genre, and globalization in such journals as the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Tabla Redonda, The Journal for the Study of Food and Society, and Symposium. His manuscript, Transatlantic Mysteries: Culture, Capital, and Crime in the ‘Noir’ Novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, was published with Bucknell University Press. In a related project, Dr. Nichols edited a special issue of the Revista Iberoamericana that focused on detective fiction in Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. titled "Crimen, Cadáveres, y Cultura: Siguiendo las pistas de la novela negra." He also co-edited a collection of essays titled "Beyond Madrid: Revisiting the Cultural Archives of La Movida," a special section for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, that re-evaluated the cultural impact of the Movida in Spain. He is currently finishing a book titled Commodified Ludic Spaces in Contemporary Spain:  The Rise of Urban Coastal Tourism that focuses on the urban history of coastal tourism in the late Franco years in Spain by looking at filmic and literary representations but, particularly, to postcards, television series, and photographs as they pertain to the construction projects established in Torremolinos (located in the Costa de Sol) and Benidorm (located in the Costa Blanca).www.williamjnichols.com
Address: Atlanta, Georgia, United States