16 Rodriguez Salas - ma in english literature and linguistics

Dr. GERARDO RODRÍGUEZ SALAS
Profesor Titular de Universidad
Sexenios ANECA: 1
Research:
Literature in English and Gender.
An approach to Literature written in English from a gender perspective:
French feminism (Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva), Gynocriticism, Postmodernist
Feminism (Braidotti, Butler, Haraway), Masculinity Studies.
Community and the English Novel.
Redefinition of the notions of community and immunity as theorized in
continental, post-phenomenological philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Blanchot,
Agamben, Esposito) in the interests of the interpretation of narrative
discourse.
RECENT AND / OR RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
1. Hijas de la Diosa Blanca. Ginocrítica y feminismo restaurador en la narrativa de Katherine
Mansfield. Oviedo: Septem ediciones (2007). ISBN: 84-96491-31-5. 224 pp.
2. The Aesthetic Construction of the Female Grotesque in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia
Woolf: A Study of the Interplay of Life and Literature (co-author: Isabel María
Andrés Cuevas). Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press
(2011). 150 pp.
3. “The Tide That Rifles Back: Spiral Femininity in Carmel Bird's Cape Grimm”.
Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature 19.1
(Columbia, Carolina del Sur, EEUU): 85-90. ISSN: 0893-5580.
4. “E.G.E. Bulwer-Lytton‟s Covert Anti-Feminism in The Coming Race”. FEMSPEC
6.2 (Cleveland, Ohio, EEUU) (2005): 87-100. ISSN: 1523-4002.
5. “No More Lullabies For Foolish Virgins. Angela Carter and „The Erl-King‟”.
English Studies (ES): Revista de Filología Inglesa 31 (2010): 223-231. ISSN: 02109689.
6. “Femininity and Vampirism as a Close Circuit: „The Lady of the House of Love‟
by Angela Carter”. Estudios de Mujeres: Sites of Female Terror. En torno a la mujer y el
terror (Volumen VI). Eds. Ana Antón-Pacheco, Isabel Durán, Asunción LópezVarela, Carmen Méndez, Joanne Neff Van Aertselaer, Ana Laura Rodríguez y
Beatriz Villacañas. Navarra: Editorial Aranzadi, 2008, pp. 121-128. ISBN: 97884-8355-876-8.
7. “„My Insides Are All Twisted Up‟: When Distortion and the Grotesque Became
the Same Job in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf” (co-autora: Isabel
María Andrés Cuevas). Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (Serie
Historicizing Modernism). Eds. Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Sue Reid.
Londres y Nueva York: Continuum, 2011. 139-148.
8. “„When it‟s dark outside‟: Secrecy, Death and the Unworking of Community in
Janet Frame‟s The Lagoon and Other Stories” (co-author: Julián Jiménez
Heffernan). Chasing Butterflies: Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories. Ed.
Vanessa Guignery. París: Editions Publibook Université, 2011. 73-96.
9. De habitaciones propias y otros espacios conquistados. Estudios sobre mujeres y literatura en
lengua inglesa en homenaje a Blanca López Román (Co-editors: Margarita Carretero
González & Mª Elena Rodríguez Martín). Granada: Universidad de Granada,
2006. ISBN: 84-338-3946-2. 285 pp.
10. “A Dream-Temple of Collective Imagination: Exploring Community in Carmel
Bird‟s Cape Grimm”. Australian Literary Studies (May 2012). In press.
OTHER:
External reviewer for the following academic journals: Journal of Katherine Mansfield
Studies, IJES (International Journal of English Studies), ES (English Studies, Valladolid),
The Grove, Greta.
I+D Research Project: Community and Immunity in the Contemporary Novel in English.
PhD Special Mention (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado).
Director of the following MA theses:
Verónica Pérez Rodríguez: “„The Church Sometimes Attempted to Reform
Stranded Mermaids‟: Female Responses to Religion in Carmel Bird‟s
Fiction” (2009). A+.
José María Prados Fernández: “„Teaching Cultural Elements Through Fairy
Tales: Cronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S.
Lewis” (2011). A+.
José Alberto Arias Pereira: “„When Holden Left Neverland: Literature and
Adolescence” (2011). A+.