You will find here original materials directly published online, excepting the self-translations of work published in print; see for these the sections Chapters in Books, Articles in Journals) and the e-books (see Books).
Paper series: TELLC (Teaching English language, Literature and Culture)
Sara Martín Alegre (ed.), Sharing Teaching Experiences, papers presented in the TELLC (Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture) Workshops (2014-).
Teaching materials
What You Need to Know about… Contemporary Anglophone Literature. An introduction to the background and the literature in English, 1990-2024, with timelines, notes and lists (BA in English Studies, subject Contemporary Anglophone Literature). 2025.
“Del cine al teatro pasando por Shakespeare”, materiales del seminario “Shakespeare al cinema” (Máster en Estudis Teatrals, UAB). 2018.
Articles
“Decolonizing the Mind, Writing Outside the Identity Box: Vandana Singh’s Complex Speculative Fiction“, 2020.
“In bed with Dickens: Questioning the neo-Victorian codes of representation in Ralph Fiennes’s film The Invisible Woman (2013)”, 2017-18. Versión en castellano: “En la cama con Dickens: La mujer invisible de Ralph Fiennes y la problemática masculinidad del genio”, 2017-18.
“Between Brownlow and Magwitch: Sirius Black and the Ruthless Elimination of the Male Protector in the Harry Potter Series”, 2016. Versión en castellano: “Entre Brownlow y Magwitch: Sirius Black y la implacable eliminación del protector masculino en la serie Harry Potter“. 2016.
“Fabulant el monstre masculí: La ficció de detectius i la ciència-ficció a la novel·la de Richard Morgan Black Man (2007)”. NOTE: The document includes an English translation. 2007.
“The Ceremony of Crying: The Novel of Sensibility as Theatrical Performance, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771)”, post-grad paper (1992, revised in 2015).
“Walking on Common Ground: The Shared Cultural Background in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Gabriel García Márquez’s Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada”, post-grad paper (1991, revised in 2015).
“The Mistress of the House and her Master: The Double Narrative in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House”, post-grad paper (1992, revised in 2015).
“The Neurotic Ritual: The Metafictional Discourse in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife”, post-grad paper (1992, revised in 2015).
“The Picaresque Adventure of the Jewish Immigrant: Aspects of the Picaresque Plot in Abraham Cahan’s The Rise of David Levinsky,” post-grad paper (1992, revised in 2015).
“Women from Another World: Lily Bart and Ellen Olenska, Two of Edith Wharton’s Heroines”, post-grad paper (1992, revised in 2015).
“Richard K. Morgan’s Black Man/Thirteen: A Conversation”, interview, 2015.
“Scottish Masculinity and the Failure of the Utopian Tower Block in David Greig’s Play The Architect and Andrew O’Hagan’s Novel Our Fathers”, 2014. Versión en castellano: “Obras de demolición : la masculinidad escocesa y el fracaso de la utopía arquitectónica según David Greig y Andrew O’Hagan”, 2014.
“Leisured Utopia: Re-imagining the Role of Work and the Generation of True Culture”. Versión en castellano: “Ocio y utopía: Los límites del trabajo y la generación de auténtica cultura”. 2003.
“Freaks: Strategies for the Textual Representation of the Uncommon Other” (2005, 2013), academic article. Versión en castellano: “Freaks: Estrategias para la representación textual del cuerpo del Otro”. 2013.
“Heathcliff’s Blurred Mirror Image: Hareton Earnshaw and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Masculinity in Wuthering Heights“. Versión en castellano: “El reflejo borroso de Heathcliff : Hareton Earnshaw y la reproducción de la masculinidad patriarcal en Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë”. 2006.
Conference presentations and lectures
“Bellatrix Black Lestrangre, la mala bruja”, charla presentada en el WitchMarket, 2 diciembre 2023, Barcelona.
“Merope Gaunt, madre de Voldemort: la narrativa como castillo de naipes“, charla ofrecida en el WitchMarket, 26 de noviembre 2022, Barcelona.
“Father Soldier Son: American Masculinity and the Impact of the Patriarchal War Machine on the Family”, conference presentation, Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature, UAB, 2021.
“Collaborative authorship : publishing e-books on fantasy and science fiction with BA and MA students”, narrated PowerPoint, conference presentation, Born-digital Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom (online), 2021.
“Sex and the Humaniform Robot: Between Science Fiction and Robosexuality”, conference presentation, 2 October 2018. NOTA: inclou l’enllaç a la versió en català, presentada a la CatCon, 2018.
“Severus Snape: héroe secreto”, conferencia en el WitchMarket, 25 noviembre 2018, Barcelona.
“The Case of Vandana Singh: Reading Indian Science Fiction, with a Warning about Wrongs”, extended conference presentation, Writing/Righting Wrongs: Misrepresentation, Discrimination, Inequality, UAB, 2017. 2018.
“Obrint les Humanitats: Les ficcions populars i el que els estudiants ens podeu ensenyar”. Conferència inaugural, curs acadèmic 2017-18, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. English version: “Opening Up the Humanities: Popular Fictions and What Students Can Contribute”, 2017.
“El cuerpo y los cuerpos: Contra el universalismo en la aplicación de la Teoría de los Afectos al cine de horror”, comunicación de congreso, III Congreso Internacional Visiones de lo Fantástico : “El horror y sus formas”, UAB. 2017.
“Re-Imagining Apartheid: Making Guilt Visible in Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City (2010)”, conference presentation, I International Conference Relations and Networks in Indian Ocean Writing, UAB, 2015.
“¿La memoria ninguneada?: La presentación de la emigración económica española hacia Cataluña en el Museu d’Història de Catalunya y el Museu d’Història de la Immigració de Catalunya”, comunicación de congreso, ‘New Typologies of (E/Im)Migration: Mobility and Transcultural Spaces, Culture and Power International Conference’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2015.
“Failing to mainstream the gay man before Brokeback Mountain (2005): Richard Condon’s Gods and Monsters (1998) and the problem of ageism”, conference presentation, comunicación de congreso, XIL Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 2015.
“Space Opera Beyond Space: Iain M. Banks’ The Hydrogen Sonata and the Politics of Subliming”, extended conference presentation, 16th International Culture & Power Conference: Spaces, Universidad de Murcia, 2013. 2015.
“Expediente X: el culto que persiste”, conferencia, Festival de Sèries de Sabadell, 2015.
“Los estudios culturales en España: Más allá de la filología”, conferencia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2009.
“Teaching gender studies as feminist activism : still struggling for recognition“, conference presentation, Gender Spring Conference, Setting a New Agenda for Equality Policies, At Gender: The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, 2014.
“La Ciència i la ficció a la ciència-ficció: Tecnofòbia i tecnofília a les humanitats (una aproximació comparativa)”, conferència, cicle “Rellevància de la Literatura Comparada”, UPF, 2014.
“Oblique Politics: The Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of The X-Files“, conference presentation, 7th Conference European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), 2004.
“La Humanización del robot en El Hombre del Bicentenario: Del relato de Isaac Asimov a la adaptación cinematográfica de Chris Columbus y Nicholas Kazan”, presentación, Seminario Tecnología y Posthumanidad: La Artificialidad del Ser, 2002.
“Teaching Politically Incorrect Contemporary Gothic Fictions: Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991) and Stephen King’s Misery (1987)”, conference presentation, XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, AEDEAN Universidad de León, 1999.
“Rewriting the Writer: Hemingway in Love and War according to Richard Attenborough”, conference presentation, Millennium Film Conference, University of Bath, 1999.
“The Man Behind the Mask: Looking at Men’s Faces in Films”, conference presentation, Screen Studies Conference, 1999.