Fitxa persona

Assistant Professor at the Department of Spanish Philology, in the area of modern and contemporary Peninsular Spanish literature. He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology, a Master’s Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies and a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teaching from University of Valencia. He also obtained a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy in Spanish and Comparative Literature from Yale University in the United States. In 2018 he earned a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Valencia with the thesis Temblor ante el caos. Estética y subjetividad en la generación del 14, focused on the writings of José Ortega y Gasset between 1910 and 1916 and directed by Professor Joan Oleza. In May 2019 he received a second PhD in Contemporary Peninsular Literature and Comparative Literature (Minor) from Yale University, with a dissertation entitled Dissent and Melancholy. A Brief Intellectual History of Spain, directed by Noël Valis. In it he examined the Spanish intelligentsia of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through two key concepts: dissent and melancholy.

He is currently PI of the emerging research project Subjetividades en crisis en la literatura española contemporánea (1914-1975), funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (CIGE/2023/74). He is also part of the research group Memory Novels LAB: Laboratorio Digital de Novelas sobre Memoria Histórica Española (https://mnlab.toky.es/), based at the Universitat de València, under the direction of Luz C. Souto, which was also funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (GV/2021/183). He has also been part of two other research groups at the University of Valencia, both led by Joan Oleza: Artelope. Base de datos y argumentos del teatro de Lope de Vega (https://artelope.uv.es/), Consolider TC/12. Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español: Textos e instrumentos de investigación (CSD2009-00033), in which he worked on the configuration of a digital database on the theater of Lope de Vega (https://artelope.uv.es/) and on the digital edition of the most emblematic plays of the European theater of 16th and 17th centuries (https://emothe.uv. es/). And Prometeo project Max Aub y las confrontaciones de la memoria histórica (http://aubproyecto.uv.es/), in which he enjoyed a contract as Junior Doctoral Researcher and worked on the digital editions of Campo de sangre and Campo de los almendros, by Aub, to be published by Publicacions de la Universitat de València. He has also been involved in the project Prosa de ideas y ensayo en la transición cultural española (1966-1986), within the Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i and financed in part with FEDER funds from the European Union (PGC2018-095257-B-I00). Its principal investigators were Domingo Ródenas de Moya (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Jordi Ibáñez Fanés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

In addition to that, he has enjoyed teaching and research stays at the universities of Calabria (Italia), Oxford (United Kingdom), Stanford (United States) and Barcelona, where he carried out research entitled Against "Transition Culture", New Intellectual Ways to Face Spanish Recent History, which was financed by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

Among his main lines of research, he has specialized mainly in 20th century Spanish intellectual history. He has participated as a lecturer, speaker and communicator in more than twenty academic meetings organized both in Spain and abroad, and has published several articles in national and international journals and collective works. He authored also the monograph Disenso y melancolía. Breve historia intelectual de España (2022), in Publicacions de la Universitat de València. He has also co-edited, together with Mariela Sánchez (UNLP), the volume Memoria cultural y memorias periféricas de la Guerra Civil española y el franquismo (2024), in Peter Lang, and he is currently preparing, together with Joan Oleza and Federico Gerhardt, the edition of Luis Buñuel, novela, by Max Aub, to be published in Iberoamericana-Vervuert.