Rate My Professor Paul Bowker

At Monash, Bowker supervises PhD and honors projects on Spanish and Latin American literature and culture of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, particularly those examining the impacts of travel, migration, immigration, and transnational encounters on subjectivity and identity. He serves as an Associate Investigator on the faculty seed-funded project 'Decolonising and Indigenising European Languages at Monash University: Professional Development of Educators,' commencing August 2024, and coordinates honors in European Languages and Cultures. His key publications include 'The P.R.omised land: New Italians in Australia' (2023), 'Race, regeneration and the challenge to Spanish ideological imperialism in Jose Maria Albinana Sanz's Bajo el cielo mejicano' (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 2015), 'In Praise of the Melting Pot: Argentina as Transformative Space in the Travels of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' (2014, in Other Encounters: European Writers and Gender in Transnational Context), and 'Refiguring North and South: The Grotesque of Almería in Juan Goytisolo’s Campos de Níjar and La Chanca' (2011, in Encrucijadas históricas de la España contemporánea). He has supervised theses such as 'A Chorus of Laughing People: Bakhtin’s Subversive Voices in Tirant lo Blanch' (MA, Monash, 2016, co-supervisor).