Full Professor
| Name: | Julián Jiménez Heffernan |  |
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| Position: | Full Professor | |
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Full Professor of English Literature, Julián teaches English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. He was educated at the University of Granada. He received a Ph.D from the University of Bologna in 1994 with a doctoral dissertation on philosophy and rhetoric in the work of Giordano Bruno, supervised by Ezio Raimondi and Andrea Battistini. Visiting researcher at the Universities of Yale, Nottingham, Cambridge, Toronto and Munich; has written on deconstruction, Paul de Man, Renaissance philosophy and literature (Bruno, Vaughan, Hobbes, Donne, Herbert, Cervantes, Garcilaso, Marlowe, Juan de Valdés, Shakespeare), comparative literature, literary theory, narrative theory and the English novel (Richardson, Scott), Victorian literature and culture (Macaulay, Thackeray, Darwin, Eliot),modern and contemporary fiction (Wells, James, Beckett, Waugh, Gaddis, Coetzee, Murdoch, Gordimer, Naipaul, De Lillo, Pynchon, Auster), and is the author of translations and critical editions of works by Paul de Man, Fredric Jameson, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christopher Marlowe, Joseph Conrad, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Mark Strand, Geoffrey Hill and Jorie Graham. He has also published articles and books on Hispanic literatures, with a special focus on Renaissance and modern and contemporary poetry (García Lorca, Vallejo, Cernuda, Valente, Gamoneda, Gimferrer, García Valdés)
He is now engaged in work on different topics like Shakespeare, Samuel Richardson, Victorian fiction and García Lorca. He currently teaches courses on Anglo-American socio-political thought, Joan Didion, and Shakespeare. He has supervised doctoral research on a variety of topics: Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Lovecraft, Foucault and contemporary fiction (DeLillo, Coetzee, Franzen).
Member of the research team “English and Related Literature”: http://www.uco.es/writsofempire/index.html
Recent publications
Books
- Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2023.
- Unphenomenal Shakespeare: Pending Critical Quarrels. Leiden: Brill. 2023
- La dialéctica: Variaciones sobre un tema de Fredric Jameson. Madrid: Abada, 2021.
- Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Shakespeare's Extremes. Wild Man, Monster, Beast (Palgrave, 2015)
Critical editions
- Garcilaso de la Vega, Poesías completas. Edición de Julián Jiménez Heffernan e Ignacio García Aguilar (Akal, 2017)
Journal articles and essays
- "Un fantasma republicano: poesía y exilio de Antonio Machado a Tomás Segovia". Figuras. Revista académica de investigación UNAM 3.3 (2022): 86-104.
- “‘The Hard Worldly Basis’: History and Infrastructure in Henry James’s ‘Julia Bride’”. Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 77.4 (2021)
- “Las reliquias de Lorca: fetichismo positivista y adulteración hermenéutica”. Creneida: Anuario de Letras Hispánicas 9 (2021)
- "'A Paper-knife and an English Novel: Slitting Wuthering Heights". Afterword to Determining Wuthering Heights: Ideology, Intertexts, Tradition by María Valero Redondo. New York: Peter Lang, 2021. 317-357.
- "Una casa para Teresa: De vidas pobres de santas y de pícaros", Studi ispanici 46 (2021): 59-107.
- “La dialéctica” en Fredric Jameson: Una poética de las formas sociales, eds. Ariel Gómez Ponce y Pampa Arán, Córdoba: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 2020, 41-58
- “Cartesian Meditations: Descartes, Husserl, and the question du livre” en Rura Cano, Rurisque Deos: Homenade a José Luis Cantón Alonso, eds. Ramón Román y Mª Carmen Molina. Córdoba: UCOPress, 2020. 193-226.
- “‘Un balance mal urdido’: Diminutivo y plegaria en Olvido García Valdés”, Periódico de poesía (UNAM). 29 Julio 2019.
- “The Morphological Unconscious: Negative Prefixation and Determinate Negation in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa” en Studies in English Linguistics and Stylistics: In Honor of José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, eds. Rocío Gutierrez et al. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2019. 57-74
- “Playas donde evitar la vida. Lectura de la ‘Oda a Walt Whitman’ de Federico García Lorca. Studi ispanici 2019. 169-202.
- “La destrucción de Sodoma: Norma y diferencia en Federico García Lorca”. Ínsula 865-866. 2019.
- “ ‘Llegado el caso’: Valente convocado en Palais de Justice” en Prosemas: Revista de Estudios Poéticos 4 (2018)
- “‘The Stamp of Rarity’: Ancestrality and Extinction in Daniel Deronda”. Representations 144 (Fall 2018): 90-123.
Research projects
- PI Research Project I+D (PID2019-104409GB-100): "Henry James in Literary Contexts". 2020-2022.