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BRIEF CV

BRIEF CV

PRESENT OCCUPATION:

 

Chair of: Department of English Studies, Linguistics and Literature
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph. D. – English Philology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 
Master's in English –  Stanford University
 
Credential of Teaching Aptitude – School of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 
Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura) in English Philology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

RESEARCH:

Research interests:

  • Contemporary American Poetry
  • Experimental Literature and the Avant-Garde
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Shakespeare
  • Power, Ideology and Literature in the Modern Age
  • Subjectivity and Authorship
  • Art and Literature
  • History and Literature
  • Geopolitics and Literature
  • Law and Literature
 
Doctoral Dissertation
Dissertation: “Traces of Sylvia Plath: The Politics of the Secret and the Poetics of the Ghost.” Director: Félix Martín, English Literature. Deconstructs the image of Plath as a confessional writer, proposing instead new historical readings that relocate Plath’s texts as icons of gothic style that responds to Cold War hysteria and consensus.
PREMIO EXTRAORDINARIO DE DOCTORADO / PhD THESIS AWARD

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GROUPS:

 

Director of UCM Research Group: “Literary Contexts of Modernity.” Co-Director: Eduardo Valls. Founder: Dámaso López García.
 
2016-2018 Participant in Research Project funded by Bank of Santander-UCM: “Thought and Literary, Artistic and Digital Representation of the European and Mediterranean Crisis”. Dir. Eduardo Valls Oyarzun, Luis Deltell (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
 
2013-2014 Participant in Research Project funded by Benjamin Franklin Institute of American Studies (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid). "Space, Gender and Identity in American Literature and Visual Arts: Trans-Atlantic Approaches". Dir. Carmen Méndez García.
 
2007-2010 Participant in Research Project funded by Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.
“Contemporary Anthropology of Myth.” Dir.  José M. Losada, French Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
 
2007-2008 Participant in Research Project funded by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Bank of Santander. “Ideology and Literature in the Origins of the Avant-Garde.” Dir. Dámaso López García.
 
2007-2008 Participant in Research Project funded by Madrid Regional Government. “Content Language Integrated Learning in Higher Education.” Dir.  Emma Dafouz, Linguistics.

 

RESEARCH GRANTS:
 
Visiting Scholar. Smith College, Massachusetts.
Visiting Scholar. Indiana University
 
Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies. 1997-1999. Master’s at Stanford University.
Master's Thesis: “Secrecy and Absence: The Construction of Sylvia Plath.” Dir. Marjorie Perloff.
 
PUBLICATIONS / LECTURES / CONFERENCE PAPERS:

 

-Recent and forthcoming editions:
  • De Lorenzo, E.; Braga, J. (editors). Shakespeare and the Representation of Political Power: Readings for the Twenty-First Century. Edition Reichenberger. Kassel, Germany, forthcoming 2024.
  • Howe, Susan. Frame Structures. A Selection of Essays. Preface by Marjorie Perloff. Introduction and translation by Eusebio De Lorenzo. Guillermo Escolar Editor, forthcoming 2024.
  • Durán, I; Gualberto, R.; De Lorenzo, E.; Méndez, C.; Valls, E. (editors). A Critical Gaze from the Old World: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on American Studies. Peter Lang, 2018. BIANNUAL RESEARCH AWARD 'JAVIER COY' — SAAS TO THE BEST EDITED VOLUME, 2017-18.
-Recent papers:
  1.  “Destroying the Body, Building the Work: Denise Levertov vs Robert McNamara”.  Williams/Levertov, Levertov/Williams. 1923–2023: Confluences. International Conference. Univ. Complutense de Madrid, 26-27 October 2023.
  2.  "Sylvia Plath’s Domestic Macabre as a Site of Subversion". 16th SAAS International Conference: "A Return to (What Never Was) Normal: Discourses of (Ab)normalcy in US Culture, Literature, Arts and Politics. Past, Present, Future." Universidad de Granada, 28-30 March 2023.
  3.  "Zaniness and the Avant-Garde: Experimental Fiction as Social Commentary in Isabel Waidner’s Writing”. International Conference: "BrexLit: Writing the British Border in Times of Crisis". Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 6-7 July 2023.
  4. "La tempestad" and "El cuento de invierno". Entries in Diccionario de la recepción teatral en España (DRTE) Dir: Javier Huerta Calvo. Ed. Antígona, 2020.
  5. “El duelo del Holocausto al otro lado del océano: Primo Levi y la literatura de los EE.UU.” Congreso Internacional Primo Levi (1919-2019): Memoria y escritura. Fac. de Filología UCM.
24-25 and 28 October 2019.
  6. “Poesía de vanguardia y cine experimental: diálogo sobre el duelo y el dolor de la guerra”. Seminario "Terror y temblor: variaciones literarias", Fac. de Filología UCM.
6 May 2019.
  7. “Woody Allen”. CONFERENCE PANEL CONVENOR. 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (SAAS). Universidad de Salamanca, 9-11 April 2019.
  8. “Writing as Trace, Writing as Memory: Susan Howe’s Chris Marker”. 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (SAAS). Universidad de Salamanca, 9-11 April 2019.

 

-Other publications and conference papers 2001-2019 on the following topics:

  • Shakespeare
  • Marlowe
  • P. B. Shelley
  • Authorship construction
  • Mythologized authors
  • Contemporary American poetry
  • Confessional poetry
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Poetic Avant-Garde
  • Susan Howe

 

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS:

  • Assitant Editor of journal Estudios de Traducción (2015-2017). e-ISSN 2254-1756  |  ISSN-L 2174-047X
  • Editorial Board: Thélème: Revista de Estudios Franceses. e-ISSN 1989-8193 | ISSN-L 1139-9368
  • Editorial Board: Amaltea: Revista de Mitocrítica. e-ISSN 1989-1709/ISSN-L 1989-1709.