Assistant Professor

Name:	Juan Luis Pérez de Luque
Position:	Assistant Professor
Research group:	Research in English and Related Literature (HUM-682)
Telephone:	+ 34 957 21 84 26
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Address:	Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Plaza del Cardenal Salazar, 3 Primera planta, junto al aula XV

Juan L. Pérez de Luque was born in Cordoba (Spain) in 1980. He got his degree in English Studies at the University of Cordoba, and a MA on English as Tool for Intercultural Communication at the University of Jaen (Spain). His PhD dissertation (2013) focused on a Žižekian approach to the ideological background found behind H.P. Lovecraft’s narrative work.

He currently works at the University of Cordoba as assistant professor at the Department of English and German Studies, where he has lectured assorted subjects, among them Discourse Analysis, Popular Literature and Text and Discourse, and he is particularly concerned with the usage of lyrics as a tool for teaching literary contents at the university.

He has been visiting scholar at Trinity College (Ireland), the University of Nottingham (UK), Brown (EE.UU.) and Wheaton College (EE.UU.), and has published several articles and book chapters on H.P. Lovecraft and E.A. Poe. His main fields of interest are ideological and communitarian readings of horror fiction, witchcraft and fantasy literature in general, and he is currently involved in a collective research project that deals with the connections between secrecy and contemporary fiction, where he is focusing his attention on the narrative oeuvre of Jeanette Winterson.

Website: http://www.uco.es/writsofempire/team-members/members/perez-luque-juan-luis.html

Main publications

• “Secrecy, invisibility and community in Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate”. Secrecy and community 21^st century fiction. Ed. María J. López and Pilar Villar-Argaiz. London: Bloomsbury. 2021: 139-154. (In press)
• Ideology and scientific thought in H.P. Lovecraft. Granada: Comares. 2020 (In press)
• “H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’ – Weird Fantasy”. Sci-Fi: A Companion. Ed. Jack Fennell. Bern: Peter Lang. 2019: 17-24.
• "Ghostly presences in H.P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air" and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". Visitors from the Grave: Ghosts in World Literature. (2019)
• "Tebeos". Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina, Vol. XII. (2021): In press.
• "Unspeakable Languages: Lovecraft editions in Spanish". Lovecraft Proceedings 2 (2017): 109-118.
• "Descending Spirits: ideological implications of the vertical movements in Poe and Lovecraft." The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Transformation and Interpretation. Ed. Sean Moreland. USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017: 89-106.
• "Gothic Mythology: "The Moon-Bog" and the Greek Connection." Lovecraft Annual 8 (2014): 186-204.
• "Fish you can't leave behind: Deep ones and other creatures as symbols of corruption in the narratives of H.P. Lovecraft." Monstrous Manifestations. Realities and Imaginings of the Monster. Ed. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska and Karen Graham. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013. 129-138.
• "Lovecraft, Reality, and the Real: A Žižekian Approach." Lovecraft Annual 7 (2013): 187-203.

Research projects

• “Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Literature in English” (PID2019-104526GB-I00)
  Ministry of Science and Innovation
  University of Córdoba and University of Granada
  06/01/2020-05/30/2022
  Main researcher: Paula Martín Salván

• "Secrecy and community in contemporary narrative in English" (FFI2016-75589-P)
  Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
  University of Córdoba and University of Granada
  30/12/2016-29/12/2019             
  Main researcher: María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno