Fitxa persona

José Martínez Rubio is a Full Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universitat de València. Previously, he developed his teaching and research activity at the Università degli Studi di Bologna (2013-2016) and the Universitat Jaume I (2017-2020). He has carried out research stays at Yale University within the Fulbright Program (2025), Universidad de Alcalá (2022) or Universidad Nacional de La Plata (2013), or teaching stays at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale (2024, 2021), the Università degli Studi di Torino (2023) or the National University of La Plata (2024). 

His field of specialization is the Spanish and Latin American novel between the 20th and 21st centuries in the field of historical memory. He has dealt in particular with the forms of memory representation (non-fiction, docufiction, autofiction, hybrid genres and journalistic and political discourse) in the Spanish and Latin American novel, intergenerational debates about the traumatic past in the 20th and 21st centuries, the processes of decolonization in Africa and their literary representation, gay and queer literature in Spanish literature throughout the 20th century.

He is the author of the books:

• Franquism against Álvaro Retana. Unpublished writings (Renacimiento, 2024)
• Whilethe war lasts. Miguel de Unamuno and historical memory as a human right (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021)
• The forms of truth. Research, docufiction and memory in the Hispanic novel (Anthropos, 2015)
• The future was this. Crisis and rematerialization of Modernity (Orbis Tertius, 2014)

In addition, has published more than seventy works in international magazines or collective books, as can be seen below.

As a writer he published his first novel in 2019 White Women (Ediciones Contrabando). In the field of journalism he has published articles on politics and culture in the newspaper El País, Levante EMV and Valencia Plaza.

Throughout these years and in the different universities where he has carried out his teaching and research work, he has carried out R + D + i research tasks in the following research groups:

• Sexual dissidence and public morality in the Franco era (PID2024-158715OA-I00), financed by the Ministryof Science, Innovation and Universities, within the Knowledge Generation Program. (2025-2028)
• MNLAB-ADVANCE. Development of digital tools for researching novels about War(UV-INV-AE-3672384). Research and Technology Promotion Program. Research Service of the University of Valencia. (2025.2026)
• Emerging Project. Subjectivities in crisis in contemporary Spanish literature (1914-1975) (CIGE/2023/74), financed by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana. (2024-2025)
• Emerging Project. Memory Novels Lab. Digital Laboratory of Novels on Spanish Historical Memory (GV/2021/183), funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana. (2021-2022)
• Prometheus Project. Max Aub and the confrontations of historical memory (PROMETEU/2016/133), financed by the Generalitat Valenciana. (2016-2019)
• Project EMOTHE. European theater of the 16th and 17th centuries: heritage and database(FFI2016-80314), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. (2016-2019)
• European Project. TEMPUS-IDELE. Innovation and Development in Spanish as a Second Language(530459-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-ES), funded by the European Commission. (2015-2016)
• Project Artelope.Database and arguments of Lope de Vega's theater(FFI 2009-12730 (2010-2012), FFI 2012-3434). (2013-2016)
• Microcluster Culture and Society in the digital age of the VLC Campus. (2013-2016)
• Consolider Project. TC / 12. Classic Spanish theatrical heritage. Texts and research instruments (CSD2009-00033), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. (2009-2014)