Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid. He specializes in American and Postcolonial Literatures and has published extensively on American short fiction. His field of research is American short stories and Postcolonial literary essays. Also he is concerned with the cultural and literary relations between America and Spain, and between postcolonial authors writing in English and Spanish.

Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan was a SAAS/Fulbright Fellow in 2005 in the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

“Realism and Narrators in Tobias Wolff’s Short Stories”. Short Story Theories. A Twenty-First-Century Perspective. Ed. Viorica Patea. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 271-280. To view or download document, click here.

Pioneros. Cuentos norteamericanos del siglo XIX. Edición e introducción Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Palencia: Menoscuarto, 2011.

“‘By his own thought and feeling’. La imaginación creadora de Wallace Stevens and José Ángel Valente.” A View from the South: Contemporary English and American Studies. Proceedings of the 34th International AEDEAN Conference Almeria 2010. Edited by José R. Ibáñez & José Francisco Fernández. Almería: Editorial Universidad de Almería, 2011. 75-79. To view or download document, click here.

“Un persistente recuerdo: la recepción de Poe en España”. Los legados de Poe. Edited by Margarita Rigal. Madrid: Síntesis, 2011. 145-174. 

“Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Critical Appreciation of Edgar Allan Poe”. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-2009). Doscientos años después. Edo Margarita Rigal Aragón y Beatriz González Moreno. Cuenca: Servicio de Publicaciones de Castilla-La Mancha, 2010. 177-184. 

“Poe's Poetry. Melancholy and the Picturesque”. A Descent into Edgar Allan Poe and His Works: The Bicentennial. Co-ordinated by Beatriz González Moreno and Margarita Rigal Aragón. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2010. 97-106.

“Imagen y palabra. Interacciones entre la pintura y la poesía norteamericana”. New Perspectives on English Studies. Edited by Marian Amengual Pizarro, María Juan Garau, and Joana Salazar Noguera, 2009. [In collaboration with Luisa Mª González Rodríguez and Dídac Llorens Cubedo].

“Edgar A. Poe's Poetry in Spain.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review. Volume X, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 49-56. To view or download document, click here.

“Melancholic Characters in E. A. Poe’s Fiction”. Atlantic Critical Review. Volume 7, no. 3 (2008): 102-116.

“Récit, story, tale, novella”. Romantic Prose Fiction. Edited Gerald Gillespie, Bernard Dieterle, and Manfred Engel. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins B.V., 2008. 364-382.

“Margaret Atwood: escritura canadiense”. Turia: Revista cultural, vol. 87 (2008): 18-30.

En torno a los márgenes: Ensayos de literatura poscolonial. Madrid: Minotauro Digital, 2008.

“Multiple Voices, Single Identity: T.S. Eliot's Criticism and Spanish Poetry”. The International Reception of T.S. Eliot, edited Elizabeth Däumer and Shyamal Bagchee. New York and London: Continuum, 2007. 141-153.

Antología del cuento grotesco. Edited by Juan López Morillas, Carmen Bravo-Villasante and Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A., 2007.

“Las varias caras de lo grotesco.” Antología del cuento grotesco. Edited by Juan López Morillas, Carmen Bravo-Villasante and Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A., 2007. 9-40.

“El punto de vista en 'El coloquio de los perros' y 'Benito Cereno': estrategias realistas en el cuento”. La huella de Cervantes y El Quijote en la cultura anglosajona. Co-ordinated by José Manuel Barrio Marco, Mª José Crespo Allué. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2007. 367-374.

“Melancholy and the Fantastic Short Story”. The Short Story in English. Crossing Boundaries. Edited by Gema Soledad Castillo García, María Rosa Cabellos Castilla, Juan Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, and Vicente Carlisle Espínola. Alcalá de Henares: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá, 2006. 756-764.

“Formas de expresión en el Caribe británico”. Cuadernos del minotauro, vol. 4 (2006): 35-44.

“Ensayo de autobiografía”. Cuadernos del minotauro, vol. 3 (2006): 67-76.

“Social Exiles and Language Refugees: The Case of Postcolonial Authors”. Journal of Caribbean Literature, vol. 4, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 75-84.

“Miguel de Cervantes, Eight Interludes.” Revista Hermeneus, no. 7, annual 2005, p. NA.

“Juan Goytisolo: Exiliado y refugiado de la lengua”. Cuadernos del minotauro, vol. 2 (2005): 79-88.

“Figuras del escritor”. Cuadernos del minotauro, vol. 1 (2005): 51-60.

“Salman Rushdie's version of Shakespeare's Hamlet”. Estudios de literatura en lengua inglesa de los siglos XX y XXI. Co-ordinated by José Manuel Barrio Marco, María Pilar Abad García. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid (Centro Buendía), 2005. 259-266. [In collaboration with Ana Sáez Hidalgo]

Daisy Miller, Otra vuelta de tuerca y otros relatos, by Henry James. Edited and translated by Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2005.

“¿Híbrido, postmoderno o simplemente cuento? Los relatos de Ben Okri. Creadores de evocación. Co-ordinated by José Francisco Fernández Sánchez, 2005. 163-174.

“Social and Artistic Roles in Black African Authors”. Estudios de literatura de la lengua inglesa del siglo XX y XXI. Co-ordinated by José Manuel Barrio Marco, María Pilar Abad García. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid (Centro Buendía), 2005. 261-270.

“Salman Rushdie and Severo Sarduy: convergencias estéticas”. ES. Revista de Filología, vol. 25 (2003): 203-210.

“Nostalgia en el cuento minimalista americano de finales del siglo XX”. Odisea. Revista de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 2 (2002): 95-106.

“Creating an Identity by Means of Culture: Stuart Dybek's Short Stories”. Evolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures: Literary Legacies of the New Americans. Co-ordinated by Laura Alonso Gallo and Antonia Domínguez Miguela, 2002. 169-176.

“Convergencias en la literatura ensayística de Salman Rushdie y Juan Goytisolo”. ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, vol. 23 (2001): 63-76.

“Two Approaches to British Romanticism in Spain: Rafael Argullol and Gabriel Albiac”. Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, vol. 37/38 (2001): 217-228. [In Collaboration with Mª Eugenia Perojo Arronte]

“Ngugi Wa Thiong'O's Materialistic Approach to Culture”. Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (2001): 443-452.

Cuentos insólitos. Relatos cortos en lengua inglesa. Edited by Luisa Fernanda Rodríguez Palomero and Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Valladolid: Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2000.

“Sueños de ausencia en la obra de Raymond Carver”. Estudios de literatura de la lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Co-ordinated by José María Ruiz, José Manuel Barrio Marco, and María Pilar Abad García. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid (Centro Buendía), 2000. 237-245.

“La voz narrativa en Raymond Carver”. ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, vol. 22 (1999): 91-98.

“La literatura fantástica: una revisión bibliográfica”. Babel Afial: Aspectos de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, vol. 8 (1999): 5-22.

“Idea de Edgar A. Poe en la obra crítica de Jorge Luis Borges”. ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, vol. 21 (1998): 163-174.

“Tipología temática amorosa en Rock Springs de Richard Ford”. Estudios de literatura de la lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Co-ordinated by María Pilar Abad García, José Manuel Barrio Marco, and José María Ruiz Barberán. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid (Centro Buendía), 1998. 247-252.

“¿Quién soy? El poeta ante el mundo: Robert Lowell y Jaime Gil de Biedma”. Estudios de literatura de la lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Co-ordinated by María Pilar Abad García, José Manuel Barrio Marco, and José María Ruiz Barberán. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid (Centro Buendía), 1996. 271-276.

Publications

"Anthologies as Tools of Literary Hospitality. The Case of Edgar Allan Poe in Spain (1850-1936)." Journal of World Literature, vol. 8 (2023): 313-336. [In collaboration with José R. Ibáñez].

"Introduction: Re-assessing Poe's Seductive Art". Retrospective Poe: The Master, His Readership, His Legacy. Ed. by José R. Ibáñez and Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xxi-xxxii. [In collaboration with José R. Ibáñez]. To view or download document, click here.

Retrospective Poe: The Master, His Readership, His Legacy. Ed. by José R. Ibáñez and Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

“Juan Ramón Jiménez's Reading of Edgar Allan Poe as a Source for a Cosmopolitan Modernista.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 37-54.

“Romantic Eliot: the Reception of T.S. Eliot in Spain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 85 (2022): 199-210.

Review of “El relato corto: Sean O'Faolain, edited by José Francisco Fernández, translated by Leticia de la Paz de Dios”, vol. 16 (2021): 232-235.

"Introduction: Hospitality in American Literature and Culture." The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in US Literature and Culture. Eds. Amanda Ellen Gerke, Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan & Patricia San José Rico. Leyden: Brill/Rodopi, 2020. 1-19. [In collaboration with Amanda Ellen Gerke and Patricia San José Rico].

"The Contention for Jollity and Gloom: Hospitality in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Historical Short Fiction." The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in US Literature and Culture. Eds. Amanda Ellen Gerke, Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan & Patricia San José Rico. Leyden: Brill/Rodopi, 2020. 94-112.

The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture. Ed. Amanda Ellen Gerke, Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, and Patricia San José Rico. Leyden: Brill/Rodopi, 2020.

“'Make Visible': Paul Klee's Dictum and Wallace Stevens and José Ángel Valente's Essays on Poetry. Painting Words. Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text. Edited by Beatriz González Moreno and Fernando González Moreno. New York: Routledge, 2020. 161-173.

Días ejemplares, by Walt Whitman. Edited and translated by Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Valencia: Universitat de València, 2019.

"The Aristocratic Poet: Juan Ramón Jiménez's Reading of Walt Whitman." Complutense Journal of English Studies, 27 (2019): 317-330. To view or download document, click here.

"'El que toca esto, no toca un libro: toca un hombre:' The Whitmanian Roots of Unamuno's Poetics". A Critical Gaze from the Old World. Transatlantic Perspectives on American Studies. Eds. Isabel Durán G.-Rico, Rebeca Gualberto, Eusebio de Lorenzo, Carmen Méndez and Eduardo Valls. Peter Lang, 2019. 273-288. 

"The Beat Generation in Spain: Changes in the Underground Culture." Beat Literature in a Divided Europe. Eds. Harri Veivo, Petra James and Dorota Walczak-Delanois. Brill/Rodopi, 2019. 187-203.

"Review of Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens", edited by Bart Eeckout and Lisa Goldfarb”, Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Assocition of Anglo-American Studies, vol. 40 no. 1 (June 2018): 225-229.

“Review of Borges's Poe. The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America”, by Emron Esplin. Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 22 (2018): 335-337.

"The Rhetorics of Hospitality in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, vol. 58 (2018): 67-82. To view or download document, click here.

“The Fooler Fooled: Salman Rushdie's Hybrid Revision of William Shakespeare's Hamlet through 'Yorick'”. Native Shakespeares. Indigenous Appropiations on a Global Stage, edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia. London & New York: Routledge, 2016. 73-87. [In collaboration with Ana Sáez Hidalgo]

“Ekphrasis in American Poetry: Wallace Stevens, Harold Rosenberg and Action Painting”. Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21sth Century, edited by Sandra Lee Kleppe. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 2015. 81-99.

Fragmentos de realidad: Los autores y las poéticas del cuento en lengua inglesa, edited by Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Valladolid: Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2015.

“Poéticas del cuento poscolonial escrito por mujeres”. Fragmentos de realidad: Los autores y las poéticas del cuento en lengua inglesa, edited by Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Valladolid: Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2015. 191-201.

“Poéticas pictóricas. A propósito de los ensayos de John Ashbery y José Ángel Valente y el expresionismo abstracto”. Identidades en contexto y cultura posmoderna: ensayos críticos, co-ordinated by Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo, Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo. Oviedo: KRK, 2015. 127-137.

“Spanish Versions of a Modern Classic: Poe’s Poetry in Spain through the Twentieth Century.” Edited y Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale do Gato. Translated Poe. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2014. 289-298.

“Fragmentos de realidad: Los relatos de Alice Munro”. Turia. Revista cultural, vol. 109 (2014): 9-16.

"Review of A 21st. Century-Retrospective View about Edgar Allan Poe/ Una mirada retrospectiva sobre Edgar Allan Poe desde el siglo XXI”, edited by Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca, María Amparo Olivares Pardo, and Nicolás Estévez Fuertes. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, vol. 35.2 (December 2013): 187-193.

"Review of De la simple existencia: Antología poética, by Wallace Stevens, and: La roca by Wallace Stevens, and: Poemas tardíos by Wallace Stevens, and: Ideas de orden by Wallace Stevens, and: Las auroras de otoño y otros poemas by Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 37 no. 1 (2013): 119-122.

“Wallace Stevens y Antonio Colinas. Poesía y filosofía, los dos términos de una relación”. Revista de Filología de la Universidad de la Laguna, vol. 31 (2013): 159-172.

"The First Stage Of The Creative Process in the Work of Wallace Stevens and José Ángel Valente: "Notes on a Supreme Fiction" and "Cinco fragmentos para Antoni Tàpies." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, nº 16 (2012): 107-123. To view or download document, click here.

"Wallace Stevens and Antonio Colinas: Poetic recreation of a pictorial image and Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus”. Ars Longa 21 (2012): 451-462. To view or download document, click here.