Dr Elaine Canning is a lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Admissions Coordinator for Modern Languages. She joined the Modern Languages Department at Swansea in January 2005, having previously lectured at the University of Wales, Bangor. She teaches a range of modules on Golden Age and contemporary drama and Spanish cinema and is joint coordinator of the .

RESEARCH

Author of Lope de Vega’s Comedias de tema religioso: Re-creations and Re-presentations (Tamesis), she specializes in research into Spain’s Golden-Age theatre and Spanish cinema with an emphasis on adaptation and theatricality. In addition to her publications on Golden-Age theatre she has published on film adaptations of the plays of Lope de Vega. She is currently writing a monograph on the television, theatrical and cinematic works of Spanish director Pilar Miró, to be published by Manchester University Press in its series on Spanish and Latin American filmmakers. For further details on previous and forthcoming publications, please see the list below.
Together with Professor Rob Stone (Political and Cultural Studies), she is co-director of CRISS - Centre for Research into Iberian Stage and Screen at Swansea. She is also co-director with Dr Kate Griffiths (French) of the Swansea-based interdisciplinary research cluster ARTT (Adaptation and Re-creation: Textual Traffic).
She is editorial board member of Studies in European Cinema (Intellect), associate editor of Romance Studies (Maney) and a regular reviewer for Bulletin of Spanish Studies. She is also co-editor of the University of Wales Press’ series ‘European Visual Cultures’.

Forthcoming Publications:

• Canning, E., Pilar Miró (Manchester University Press, 2011)
• Canning, E., ‘Musical Idioms in Spanish Period Films: The Function of Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Forms’, in Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema, eds. Rob Stone and Lisa Shaw (Manchester University Press, 2011)
• Canning, E., ‘Adaptation as Subversion: Luis Buñuel’s Tristana’, in A Companion to Luis Buñuel, eds. Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez Albilla (Blackwell, 2012)

Previous publications include:

• Canning, E., Lope de Vega's comedias de tema religioso: Re-creations and Re-presentations (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, 2004)
• Canning, E., "'Not I, my shadow': Pilar Miró's Adaptation of Lope de Vega's The Dog in the Manger (1996)", Studies in European Cinema, 2.2 (2005), 81-92
• Canning, E., 'Lope de Vega', in The Literary Encyclopedia (August 2005)
• Canning, E., ‘Destiny, Theatricality and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema’, New Cinemas, 4.3 (2006), 159-71
• Canning, E., and Evans, O., Films Without Frontiers, Special edition of Studies in European Cinema, Intellect, 4.3 (2007)
• Canning, E., 'Identity and the Refashioning of Role in La buena guarda: the cases of Carrizo and Félix', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXIV:7 (2007), 859-69
• Canning, E, ‘Sacred Souls and Sinners: Abstinence and Adaptation in Lope’s Religious Drama’, in A Companion to Lope de Vega, eds. Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, 2008), pp. 147-58