David Campbell

David Campbell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He primarily works on poetry and film from 20th- and 21st-century Spain. His dissertation, Tracing the Symptom: Illness, Memory and the Limits of Historicism in the Spanish Post Dictatorship, explores representations of illness and questions of temporality in Spain’s cultural production arising since the nation’s democratic transition in the late 1970s. Informed by deconstruction, psychoanalysis and queer theory, his dissertation offers readings of poetry and visual material that propose models of temporality beyond those that structure historical time. He has also given talks and published on the filmmaker Luis Buñuel.