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José Martínez Rubio is a titular professor in the Department of Spanish Literature at the University of Valencia . Previously, he developed his teaching and research activity in the University Degli Studi Di Bologna (2013-2016) and the University Jaume I (2017-2020).

its field of specialization is the Spanish and Latin American novel between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the field of historical memory. It has dealt in particular the forms of representation of memory (non -fiction, dusfiction, self -fiction, hybrid genres and journalistic and political discourse) in the Spanish and Latin American novel, intergenerational debates on the traumatic past in the twentieth and twenty -first century, decolonization processes in Africa and its literary representation, queer literature in Spanish literature throughout the 20th century.

is the author of the books :

• Francoism against Álvaro Retana. Unpublished writings (Renaissance, 2024)
• while the war lasts. Miguel de Unamuno and historical memory as a human right (Tirant lo Blanch, 2021)
• las forms of truth. Investigation,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 thirty works in international magazines or collective books , as can be consulted below,

As a writer he published in 2019 his first novel White women (smuggled editions) .  In the field of journalism he has published articles on politics and culture in the newspaper El País , Levante Emv and Throughout these years and in the different universities in which he has developed his teaching and researcher work, he has played tasks of research i + d + i in the following research groups:

• mnlab-advance. Development of digital tools for the investigation of novels on 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), financedfor the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana. (2024-2025)
• emerging project. Memory 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 Valencian. (2021-2022)
• Prometheus Project. Max Aub and the confrontations of historical memory (Prometau/2016/133), funded 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), financed by the European Commission. (2015-2016)
• project artelope. Database and arguments of the Theater of Lope de Vega (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. Spanish classic theater heritage. Research texts and instruments (CSD2009-00033), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. (2009-2014)