Research
Research lines
Our analytical framework examines formal structures, linguistic features, and stylistic innovations in texts spanning the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. The primary research trajectories focus on:
- Historical and generic evolution,
- Textual typologies and the relevance –and pressure– of classification systems,
- Intertextual relationships and their implications,
- Theoretical questions that establish connections between literary studies and related disciplines within the humanities and social sciences,
- World Literature, minor literatures, peripheral sites,
- Digital Humanities, AI and cyberconstructs, and
- Environmentalism and the violence of climate change.
Central to our investigation is the examination of the dynamic relationship between literary texts and the social, political, and intellectual contexts that inform their production, reception, editorial processes, and circulation patterns. This contextual approach recognizes literature as both a product of and contributor to broader cultural discourse. Comparative literary and cultural studies are always foregrounded in our work.
Our research methodology is consistently informed by metaliterary reflection, critical analysis, and systematic assessment of textual reception within various national literary traditions, encompassing multiple linguistic and cultural contexts. Of particular significance is our commitment to comparative, transnational, and global perspectives on literary phenomena, with specialized attention devoted to interpretive communities, diverse readerships, comparative poetics, and cultural contexts. Our commitment to the impact in Literature of the current world crises leads us to embrace perspectives on: biopower, neocolonialism, narratives of resilience and hope, the relations among the human and the more-than-human (plant and animal ecosystems), precariousness in culture, sexualities and their discontents, necropolitics, travelling concepts within the Humanities, the neoGothic, digitalization and AI in Literature and human life, Narratives of illness, pain and reparation, violence and technofascism, and beyond.
Furthermore, our research incorporates a practical dimension through its emphasis on the promotion and facilitation of creative writing and translation studies, thereby bridging the gap between theoretical inquiry and literary production. This integrated approach ensures that our work contributes not only to academic discourse but also to the broader ecosystem of contemporary literary culture.
Areas of concentration
- World and global literatures
- Postcolonial studies and decolonial projects
- Literary translation
- Comparative literature (esp. attention to poetry and poetics)
- Modernist studies
- The novel in transition
- The graphic novel, comics and new intermedial forms
- Genres of the gothic
- Indigenous peoples literatures
- African, Caribbean and Black diasporic literatures
- Feminism and gender in literature and cultural studies
- Literature and psychoanalysis in the 21st century
Research projects (current)
- ANDRÓMEDA-CM: Mito y representación: actividades teórico-prácticas de innovación en mitocrítica cultural. IP: J.M. Losada. Comunidad de Madrid PHS-2024/PH-HUM-76. 01/01/2025 – 31/12/2027.
- Resisting the Capitalocene: Narratives of Hope in the 21st Century (PID2023-147494NB-I00). IP: C.M. Gámez Fernández. 1/9/2024 - 31/8/2028.