News

This section presents my publications and academic activities in the last twelve months. I use English, Spanish, and Catalan depending on the news item’s area of interest. Find here the complete list of my publications, organised by topic and with the corresponding links.

Septiembre 2023

The new annual volume corresponding to the blog ‘The Joys of Teaching Literature’ is now available, in English and Spanish.

July 2023

May 2023

Just published: American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask, Routledge 2023.

Recién traducido “The Renewed Cult of Manhood: Bringing Nuclear Warfare Home in Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (1959)”, The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature, David Owen & Cristina Pividori (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. 20-34. Versión en castellano: “La renovación del culto a la hombría : la regeneración nacional tras la guerra nuclear en Alas, Babylon (1959) de Pat Frank“

Abril 2023

Recién traducido “A Celebration of Mature Love: Posthuman Sexuality, Gender, and Romance in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312”, Science Fiction Studies, #148 = Volume 49, Part 3 = November 2022, 459-475. Versión en castellano: Una celebración del amor maduro : sexualidad posthumana, género y amor en 2312 de Kim Stanley Robinson (abril 2023).

Recién traducido: “In the Shadow of the Culture: The Ethics of Intervention, AI Rights, and Utopia in Iain M. Banks’s The Algebraist”. Extrapolation 62.2 (2021): 181-197. Versión en castellano: A la sombra de la Cultura: la ética de la intervención, los derechos de la IA y la utopía en El algebrista de Iain M. Banks (abril 2023).

Recién publicado: De Hitler a Voldemort: retrato del villano. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2023. Ver la entrevista en Cazabaret.

Recién traducido: “‘There’s Always a Bright Side’: Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls”. Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic Subverting Gender and Genre, Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart (eds.). Brill-Rodopi, 2020. 116-126. Versión en castellano: “‘Siempre hay un lado positivo’ : Poppy, un modelo a valorar en Trols”.

March 2023

New edited volume, co-edited with M. Isabel Santaulària: Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men (Palgrave).

New book chapter: “Let the Little Children Come to Me: Fred Rogers, the Good Man as TV Educator”. Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men , eds. Sara Martín and M. Isabel Santaulària. Palgrave, 2023. 267-282. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22144-6_16

Marzo 2023

“Ser el otro, el otro ser: inseguridades masculinas en Los humanos de Matt Haig y Materia Oscura de Blake Crouch“. Ofrezco mi propia traducción de “Being the Other, the Other Being: Masculine Insecurities in Matthew Haig’s The Humans and Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter”, SFRA Review, Vol 52, no. 4 (otoño 2022), simposio Conflicting Masculinities in SF, Michael Pitts (ed.), junto al texto original.

February 2023

“Decoding Masculinity in 21^st Century Science Fiction by Men: Two Case Studies in Reconceptualizing Patriarchy”. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, eds. Lisa Yaszek, Sonja Fritzche, Keren Omry and Wendy Gay Pearson. Routledge, 2023. 87-94.

Desembre 2022

“La traducció i la ciència-ficció: tancant un (primer) cicle d’articles i tornant al tema.” El Biblionauta, 7 desembre 2022.

Novembre/noviembre 2022

Just published: “Being the Other, the Other Being: Masculine Insecurities in Matthew Haig’s The Humans and Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter“. SFRA Review, Vol 52, no. 4 (Fall 2022), Symposium: Conflicting Masculinities in SF, Michael Pitts (ed.).

Just published: review, “SF as Historical Allegory: Apocalypse and Democracy in Spain. Dale Knickerbocker. Spain is Different?: Historical Memory and the “Two Spains” in Turn-of-the-millennium Spanish Apocalyptic Fictions.” Science Fiction Studies #148, Volume 49, Part 3 (November 2022): 574-576.

Recién publicado: “Merope Gaunt, madre de Voldemort: la narrativa como castillo de naipes“, charla ofrecida en el WitchMarket, sábado 26 de noviembre 2022.

October 2022