On Wednesday, May 16, at 4 PM, the closing ceremony of the Master’s Degree in Language and Literature Research will take place in the Salón de Actos of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication.
Dr. José María Armengol Carrera, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, will be presenting the closing lecture, titled “No Country for Old Men? Aging Men in Contemporary Literature and Film.” Dr. Armengol will undertake a cultural studies approach to the notion of aging as a developing critical paradigm in current aesthetic and cultural manifestations.
Josep M. Armengol Carrera obtained his Ph.D. in English (with Honors) from the University of Barcelona, with the thesis Gendering Men: Theorizing Masculinities in American Culture and Literature (2006). He has published on literary representations of masculinity in prestigious academic journals such as Signs, MELUS, Critique, Men and Masculinities, the Hemingway Review, Journal of Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, among others. His latest books include Debating Masculinity (Men’s Studies Press, 2009), Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities (the winner of the 2010 AEDEAN literary scholarship prize), Queering Iberia (2012), Embodying Masculinities (2013), Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), aMasculinities in Black and White (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, awarded with the ‘Javier Coy’ prize for best monograph by SAAS), and Masculinities and Literary Studies (Routledge, 2017). He is also one of the main Editors, Literary and Cultural Studies, of the academic journal Men and Masculinities (Sage Publications), as well as co-editor of the “Masculinity Studies” series at Peter Lang. Currently, he is Senior Lecturer in American literature and Gender studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where he coordinates a funded research project on masculinities and aging in contemporary U.S. literature and culture:
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