Associate Professor
| Name: | Javier Martín Párraga |  |
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| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Research group: | Texto, Ciencia y Traduccion HUM-947) | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 21 12 | |
| Email address: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Address: | Facultad de Filofía y Letras |
Javier Martín-Párraga is an associate professor at the Department of English and German Studies, University of Córdoba, Spain, where he obtained his PhD degree. His main fields of research focus on American literature, films, and cultural studies. He has been a visiting scholar at Wheaton College, United States, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, United States, the University of Toronto, Canada, and several Polish universities. Martín-Párraga has presented papers in more than fifty international conferences and seminars. His academic publications include five books and more than thirty book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is also the editor of two journals.
Main publications
Books:
- Fear, Trauma and Paranoia in Bret Easton Ellis's Oeuvre: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Roughing it in the Bush, de Susanna Moodie: Estudio Crítico y Traducción Anotada Comares, 2017.
- Joseph Addison y The Spectator. Estudio Crítico y Selección de Textos. Comares, 2015.
- New Medievalisms (co-editor y autor de un capítulo). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Journal Articles:
- "Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote and John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor: A Deconstructive Reading". Open Cultural Studies (De Gruyter Open), 1, 2017, pp. 333-341.
- "Kurt Vonnegut's Dual Roots". Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 70, 2015, pp. 143-155.
- "John Barth como paradigma de los problemas que plantea la traducción de la novelística postmoderna estadounidense". Entreculturas, 6, 2013, pp. 115-125.
Book Chapters:
- "The Myth of Nature in Canada: Margaret Atwood Revisits Susanna Moodie". Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries On Sappho's Website. Cmabridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 91-102.
- "Susanna Moodie, pionera de las letras en Canadá". Mujeres fuera y dentro de la universidad. Universidad de Salamanca, 2018, pp. 179-198.
- "En torno al concepto de ciencia ficción". Trivialidades literarias. Visor, 2013, pp. 275-287.
Research projects
Investigador participante en el Proyecto "WeinApp" (Ref. FFI2016-79785-R), financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad dentro del Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad