Sánchez-Pardo González Esther
La Dra. Esther Sánchez-Pardo González es Catedrática de Literatura Inglesa Norteamericana y Teoría Literaria . Sus líneas de investigación son: Literaturas en lengua inglesa siglo XX, Estudios Modernistas, poesía y poéticas, Estudios de género, teoría y crítica psicoanalítica.
Dr. Esther Sánchez-Pardo González is Full Professor of English Studies. Her research interests focus on 20th-century literatures in English, Modernist studies, poetry and poetics, gender, psychoanalysis, critical and cultural theory
Research abstract
Within the sphere of critical theory, those of us who advocate the absolute necessity to interweave literature and criticism are nowadays immersed in an ongoing academic discussion on the future of theory (started in 2003-2004 in the U.S.) Is theory spent? Which direction should it take? This discussion in itself leads us to research its fundamentals, to revise and to innovate. Central to my research interests is the problem of representation in literature and the visual arts –especially in painting– from 1890 until today. I am also interested in the contemporary debates on: the transformations of the individual and of the kinship system in western societies, trauma (Trauma Studies), ethics and alterity, the question of class, universalism, exile and diaspora, globalization. Starting with a broad concept of culture, discourse and “discursive struggle” (Stuart Hall), I am interested in exploring alternatives to GlobaLit (global literature), and whether we can still speak of minority literatures (even in English), of minority canons, and of texts of resistance. The rupture of the equation between text of resistance and marginality confronts us with a myriad of canonical texts which are also texts of resistance. The way texts from the 20th century increasingly present the problematic of late capitalism, and the possibilities of utopia as a genre to discuss difference and the future, constantly permeate and inform my thinking and research.The relations among literature, psychoanalysis and philosophy –and especially the thinking of Simone Weil, Benjamin, Klein, Foucault, Deleuze and Irigaray– also play an important part in my work.In recent years, my research revolves around the avant-gardes and modernism, in all its richness and diversity, from “high modernism” up to its non-hegemonic versions (peripheral, saphic, non-western modernisms) and around its interactions with other cultural contemporary texts. Psychoanalysis, in itself a modernist phenomenon “par excellence,” has occupied an important part of my work, starting with Freud and, from the period that opened with the “Controversial Discussions,” the British school of object relations (Melanie Klein, W. Bion, H. Segal). Main issues in this field have been: symbolization, fantasy (unconscious, and its relations with fantasy in literature), melancholia, fetish, masquerade, psychosis, identification and empathy. The texts studied are narrative or poetic, covering a wide range of authors, both canonical and non-canonical, always from a transatlantic perspective: from London to New York, Berlin, Tangiers, Montreal or Kingston. Ethnic, racial and identity questions have a very clear presence in literary history prior to their burgeoning in the last decades of the 20th century. My research has always been driven by an interest for understanding the cultural and ideological status of these questions within their contemporary society, parallel to their literary expression.Finally, I have an overriding interest in the potential for social change implicit in literature as a “pedagogic” discipline, aimed towards the achieving of peace and the overseeing of respect for human rights in our world.
Publications
Selected Books, Critical and Annotated Editions :
Sánchez-Pardo, E. Cultures of the Death Drive. Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia. Durham: Duke U.P., 2003. Post-contemporary interventions series. (Premio de Investigación Enrique García Díez, Aedean, 2003) ISBN: 0-8223-3009-1.
Sánchez–Pardo, E. Ed. & Intro. Mina Loy. Antología Poética (Versión bilingüe). Madrid: La Rama Dorada, 2009. ISBN : 978-84-8374-760-5.
Sánchez-Pardo, E. Prólogo, Ed. Introd. La Última Generación. Prosa y Poesía. Cherríe Moraga. Madrid: Horas y horas, 2007. ISBN: 84-96004-09-0.
Doolittle, Hilda [H.D.} Píntalo Hoy. Escenas de la Vida de la Artista. Trad. Pról. Ed. anotada. Madrid: Huerga y Fierro, 2002. ISBN: 84-8374-322-1.
Translations
Correspondencia Completa entre Sigmund Freud y Ernest Jones, 1908-1939 . Madrid: Síntesis, 2001.
Articles in Journals (recent):
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « The Desire Called Utopia : Re-Imagining Collectivity in Moraga and Castillo, » Estudios Ingleses de la U. Complutense. Vol.17 (2009), pp. 75-114. ISSN : 978-84-95215-48-2.
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « Who will Carry the Word? The Threshold Between Unspeakability and Silence in Ch. Delbo and J. Semprun Narratives oft he Holocaust, » European Journal of English Studies. Vol.14, n.1, April 2010, pp.37–48. ISSN : 1382-5577.
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « Avatars of the Speaking ‘I’ : Denise Riley’s Meditations on Poetry and Identity, » Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. 60 (April 2020) Issue (Re)Defining Contemporary British Poetry. Ed. M. del Pino Montesdeoca. pp.47-60. ISSN : 0211-5913.
Book Chapters (recent) :
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « Confession, Resistance and the Vicissitudes of Black Masculinity, ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ » Richard Wright at 100. Paula Elyseu Mesquita Ed. Lisboa : Ediçoes Colibrí, 2009. 65–77. ISBN : 978-972-772-939-5.
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « Bruno Schulz and Djuna Barnes : Border-crossing and Artistic Practice, » (Un)masking Bruno Schulz. Dieter de Bruyn & Kris van Heuckelom Eds. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009. 267-288. ISBN : 978-90-420-2694-0.
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « Carpentier’s Marvellous Real : Modernity and its Discontents in the Tropics, » Europa! Europa? The Avant-garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent. Sascha Bru et al. Eds. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010. Pp.446-463. ISBN : 978-3-11-021771-1.
Sánchez-Pardo, E. « Critical Response, » Visual Cultures. James Elkins ed. Bristol & Chicago: Intellect, 2010. ISBN : 97-110.978-1-84150-307-3.
Sánchez-Pardo, Esther, “Henry James’s Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique,” in Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding, Dennis Tredy (eds.), Henry James and Europe: Heritage and Transfer. Cambridge: Open Book, 2011, pp. 39-50.
Sánchez-Pardo, Esther, “Poetries for a Plural Country: Canada’s Poetry Cultures for the 21st Century,” in Klaus-Dieter Ertler, Stewart Gill and Susan Hodgett (eds.), Multidisciplinary Aspects in Canadian Studies, 30 Years of ICCS, 2011.
Ph D. dissertations (of University faculty) supervised:
Dr. Mª Pilar Sánchez Calle. “Raza y Género en la Obra de Audre Lorde.” 1995.
Dr. Inmaculada Cobos Fernández. “Parodia y Experimentación en la Obra de Djuna Barnes.” 1995.
Dr. Asunción López-Varela Azcárate. “Embers of Time.. A Multidisciplinary Exploration of the Crisis of Representational Time in Science and Narrative.” 2002.