Full Professor
Name: | Paula Martín Salván | |
Position: | Full Professor | |
Research group: | Research in English and Related Literature. HUM-682 | |
Telephone: | + 34 957 21 87 65 | |
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Address: | Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Anexo junto a Salón de Actos Planta 2ª, despacho nº 2 |
I have been teaching at the University of Córdoba since 2005, having completed my doctorate at Córdoba in the same year. My teaching broadly covers literature, theory and cultural studies in the English speaking world. I have also been guest lecturer at the universities of Aalborg, Denmark (2006) and Ludwig-Maximilians at Munich, Germany (2010). Since 2016 I have been guest lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Granada.
My research focuses on modern and contemporary literatures in English, with special but not exclusive emphasis on American fiction. I have published monographs on Don DeLillo (U. Of Cordoba, 2009) and Graham Greene (Palgrave, 2015), as well as essays on the work of J.M. Coetzee, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Amy Waldman, and Joseph Conrad.
Since 2010 I have been part of a research team involving researchers from the universities of Córdoba and Granada, devoted to the study of community and fiction. I have been the main researcher in two of the four projects we have developed together (Individual and Community in Modernist Fiction in English, 2013-2015 and the ongoing project Democracy, Dissidence and Secrecy in Contemporary English Literature, 2020-2022). As a team, we have organized conferences in 2014 and 2018, and we have produced three edited collections of essays: Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2013), New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (Routledge, 2017) and Secrecy and Community in 21st Century Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). Our current project focuses on Democracy, Dissidence and Secrecy in Contemporary English Literature.
I am currently head of the research team “English and Related Literature” (HUM-682): http://www.uco.es/writsofempire/index.html
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Main publications
- “‘Where all is known and nothing understood’: Narrative sequence and textual secrets in Toni Morrison’s Love”. En Secrecy and Community in 21st Century Fiction. Ed. María J. López and Pillar Villar-Argaiz. Bloomsbury, 2020. 55-70.
- “Community, Scapegoating, and Narrative Structure in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes”. Journal of Narrative Theory 49.2 (2019), pp. 169 - 192.
- "The Secret of Bride's Body in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child". Critique 59.5 (2018): 609-623.
- Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Paula Martín Salván and María J. López, eds. New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject. Finite, Singular, Exposed. London: Routledge, 2017.
- "'The best of a seaman's care': Community and Forced Hospitality in Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus"". English Studies 96.8 (2015): 891-912.
- The Language of Ethics and Community in Graham Greene's Fiction. London: Palgrave, 2015. ISBN: 9781137540102.
- "The Writer Begins in the Towers: don DeLillo, 9/11 and the Ethics of Testimony". En The Future of Testimony. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Ed. Antony Rowland. London: Routledge, 2014. 216-225. ISBN: 9781135010010.
- Paula Martín Salván, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas y Julián Jiménez Heffernan, eds. Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 9781137282835.
- Paula Martín Salván y Julián Jiménez Heffernan. "The Stricken Community: Recidivism and Restoration in American 9/11 Fiction". The Arizona Quarterly 69.2 (2013): 145-169.
- "'All designed from the outside': Distorted Communication and Communal Structures in William Gaddis' Carpenter's Gothic". EJES. European Journal of English Studies 16.2 (2012): 43-53.
Research projects
- Democracy, Dissidence and Secrecy in Contemporary English Literature (PID2019-104526GB-I00)
Ministry of Science and Innovation
University of Córdoba and University of Granada
01/06/2020-30/05/2022
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 - "Individual and community in modernist narrative in English" (FFI2012-36765)
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
University of Córdoba and University of Granada
01/01/2013-31/12/2015
Main researcher: Paula Martín Salván - "Community and immunity in the contemporary novel in English" (FFI2009-13244)
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
University of Córdoba and University of Granada
01/01/2010-31/12/2012
Main researcher: Julián Jiménez Heffernan