Fitxa persona

Álvaro López Fernández holds a PhD in Spanish Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid (2019) and is currently a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valencia. His main lines of research are the analysis of the grotesque and the fantastic in contemporary Spanish culture, especially in relation to memory, and the study of current Spanish poetry. In this regard, he is the author of the monograph El esperpento durante la Guerra Civil: propaganda y revolución (Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2020), and co-editor of the volumes Creadoras de monstruos. Lo fantástico en la ficción española actual: cine, televisión y cómic (Shangrila, 2024, with David Roas and Enrique del Rey), Figuras olvidadas en la cultura de la Guerra Civil (Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2022), Lecturas del desierto. Antología y entrevistas sobre poesía actual en España (Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, 2018, with Raúl Molina Gil and Ángela Martínez Fernández), and the critical editions Raimundo Salas Mercadal. Poesía reunida (Universidad de Zaragoza, 2024, with Raúl Molina Gil) and Checas de Madrid de Tomás Borrás (Escolar y Mayo, 2016, with Emilio Peral Vega). He has also coordinated several monographs in high-impact journals.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo fantástico and is linked to the research groups "GEF: Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico" (UAB) and "CREGEL: Crítica, edición y géneros literarios" (VIU). 

Before taking up his current position, he was a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2022-2023), Master's lecturer at the Universidad Internacional de Valencia (2021) and lecturer at the American university foundation IES Abroad Madrid (2019-2021).

He has carried out teaching and research stays at the University of Texas at Austin, the Università degli Studi di Pavia and the University of Buenos Aires.

Since 2023 he has co-directed the poetry and essay collection La Guerra Chimpancé.