Dr Stephen Wilkinson
Stephen Wilkinson, IISC Assistant Director
Stephen Wilkinson first visited Cuba in 1986 and has been traveling to and writing about the island ever since.
Now the IISC's assistant director, Stephen has a PhD on the subject of Cuban literature. He has written numerous articles on such questions as the history of US-Cuba relations, Cuban attitudes and policy towards homosexuals and the nature of the Cuban state.
Among his other commitments, Stephen is a contributor to Jane's Sentinel Reports on Cuba and has consulted on a number of documentaries about the island, including the recent Channel 4 documentary 638 Ways to Kill Castro.
Stephen's book: Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture was published in 2006 by Peter Lang. (Reviewed here) He frequently comments on Cuba issues on The Guardian newspaper's Comment is Free website: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephen_wilkinson/
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Stephen has recently completed research on the UK and European policy towards Cuba for an article to be published in the journal Diplomacy and statecraft in 2009.
He delivered a paper at a conference in Bochum in Germany on the subject of the US emabrgo policy.
An article on US Cuba Policy and the prospects for change after the next US presidential elections was published in the first edition of the International Journal of Cuban Studies.
An article by Stephen on the social and economic effects of tourism in Cuba was published in the July, 2008 edition of Third World Quarterly. A summary of this article is available on the id21 website HERE
A powerpoint slideshow of his lecture on this topic is available by clicking on the icon below:
Stephen has researched Cuban revolutionary ideology and the power structure within the Cuban state and presented the results of his work at a conference at CUNY, New York in March 2008.
Write to Stephen at:
stephen.wilkinson@cubastudies.org
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US Cuba Policy after Bush: Succession or transition?
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Presentation at Canning House, 2 Belgrave Sq., London, 10 July, 2007.
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Behind the Screen and into the closet: Reading homosexuality in the Cuban Revolution through Conducta Impropia, Antes que anochezca and Fresa y chocolat |
Published in Francisco Domínguez (ed) Identity and Discursive Practice Peter Lang, 2000 |
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Riding on a Wave of Change: the Elian Crisis and prospects for an End to the US Cuban Embargo
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Published in Soundings, a Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue 15, summer 2000. |
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Critiques of sexual and political intolerance in Leonardo Padura's novel Máscaras and the film Fresa y Chocolat |
Published in: Uxó, Carlos (ed.) The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006. ISBN: 1-870355-11-3 |
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Homosexuality and the Repression of Intellectuals in Fresa y chocolate and Máscaras |
Published in:
Volume 18 Issue 1 Page 17-33, January 1999 |
