Dr Christopher Hull
Programme Leader for BA Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; Senior Lecturer in Spanish & Latin American Studies
Biography
Dr Christopher Hull has been Senior Lecturer in Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Chester since 2013, and is programme leader for the Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies BA. Dr Hull leads and lectures on several undergraduate modules on Latin America at Chester, oversees Portuguese language modules at all undergraduate levels, and is Careers & Employability Link Tutor (CELT) for his academic subject area. He has travelled widely in Latin America, taught English as a foreign language for a year in Brazil, has studied at universities in Cuba and Portugal, and given academic conference papers in the UK, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States.
Teaching and Supervision
Dr Christopher Hull is module leader and lecturer on a first-year course that introduces students to Latin American society, culture, history, politics and the different language varieties of Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. He supervises extended essay and dissertation projects on Spain and Latin America and leads a final-year module on Revolutionary Latin America, with a particular focus on Cuba from 1898 until the present day. Christopher also teaches a double-weighted Beginners' Spanish language module for first year students. He shares teaching and supervision of postgraduate students on various language & culture evening modules at Chester.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Dr Hull’s doctoral research focused on Anglo-Cuban relations (1898–1964), and he continues to be interested in diplomatic (or international) history, especially Anglo-American interactions concerning Latin America. A current research project is the 8-month long kidnapping of the British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson by left-wing Tupamaros urban guerrillas in 1971. A recent project was British writer Graham Greene, particularly his visits to Cuba before and following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, his spy-fiction satire Our Man in Havana (published just 12 weeks before Fidel Castro's triumph), and the film version of this novel, partly filmed on location in Havana in the first months of 1959. Another ongoing interest is football. He recently published a non-fiction book about the first joint-management experience of Brian Clough & Peter Taylor at lower-league Hartlepools United in 1965-67. He is currently undertaking research on the first British/English footballer to play for Real Madrid (1979-82).