Federico Bonaddio

Federico Bonaddio is Senior Lecturer in Modern Spanish Studies at King’s College London. He has published on a range of subjects in the area of modern Spanish culture, most notably on the poetry of Federico García Lorca as well as popular Spanish cinema. He is author of Federico García Lorca: the Poetics of Self-Consciousness (Tamesis, 2010) and editor of A Companion to Federico García Lorca (Tamesis, 2007). His essays include ‘Idealizing Lola: Two film Adaptations of the Machado Brothers’ play, La Lola se va a los puertos’, (2003); ‘Dressing as Foreigners: Historical and Musical Dramas of the Early Franco Period’ (2004); ‘Grammar and Poetic Form: Limits and Transcendence in Juan Ramón Jiménez’s “Una a una, las hojas secas van cayendo”’ (2006), ‘Being Good: Manliness and Virtue in Gonzalo Delgrás’ El Cristo de los faroles (1957)’ (2011), ‘San Manuel Bueno, mártir and the Art of Hagiography’ (2011), Being Good: Manliness and Virtue in Gonzalo Delgrás’ El Cristo de los faroles (1957), ‘”The Unsuspected Truth”: Silence and Trauma in Carmen Laforet’s Nada’ (2013) and ‘Reflections on Lorca, Quevedo and the Sonetos del amor oscuro’ (2014).