José Carlos Redondo Olmedilla
Master's Programme in English Studies: Professional Applications & Intercultural Communication
Position/ Status
Full Professor
E-mail address
Phone number
(+34) 950 015 506
Office
Humanities Building II, 2.11
Qualifications
Ph.D. in English Studies (University of Granada)
Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities (University of Almeria)
Licenciatura in Spanish Philology (UNED)
Licenciatura in English Philology (University of Granada)
Membership of Academic Associations
Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning
Sociedad Española para el Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literature (SEDLL)
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS)
Websites
Grupo de Investigación HUM-859– Lengua Inglesa: Lingüística Aplicada y Estudios Literarios
Teaching Innovation Groups
Aplicaciones transversales para el estudio de la identidad en las literaturas en lengua inglesa
Profile
José Carlos Redondo is Ful Professor of English Literature in the Departament of Philology at the University of Almeria. He is head of the research group HUM-859–Lengua Inglesa: Lingüística Aplicada y Estudios Literarios. He holds a Ph.D. in English Studies (University of Granada, 1995) and a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities–Spanish and American Literature (University of Almeria, 2013). He has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and Research Scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
He currently works on new literatures in English and Spanish as well as issues involving transnationality, multiculturality, and new and emerging cultural flows. He actively collaborates with the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) and with the European Association for Studies of Australian Literature (EASA) and with publications and research on Indian and Latin American Studies.
Research Topics
Comparative Studies
Literatures in English Language
New Directions in English Literature
Transnational and Multicultural Narratives
Courses taught in the Master's Programme
New Trends in the Literature of the English-Speaking Countries (Module 2)
Latest academic publications
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. “Finitud y episteme en la narrativa latinoamericana: Jorge Volpi y la Trilogía del siglo XX.” Romance Studies, vol. 38, no. 1 (2020): 48-61.
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. "Historia y ficción en la narrativa latinoamericana: la Trilogía del siglo XX, de Jorge Volpi". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 25.2 (2019): 141-156.
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. “Historia y cognición en la narrativa de Latinoamerica: Jorge Volpi y la Trilogía del siglo XX”. Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria latinoamericana, vol. 6, nº 10 (2018): 127-149.
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. “La ciudad en Jorge Volpi: dimensión simbólica y rituales del caso en la Trilogía del siglo XX, Romanische Forschungen, vol. 128, nº 4 (2016): 481-497.
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. “El crack y su generación: exégesis de la fisura”, Confluencia, 31.2 (Spring 2016): 72-84.
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. “Les Murray: Sensing Poetry through Place” in Australian Literature. Paradigms, Praxis and Theory. Ed. Shiv Govind Puri. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2016. 1-17.
Redondo Olmedilla, José-Carlos. “Tours of Identity in V. S. Naipaul's The Writer and the World.” Lotus Wine. Critical Responses to Indian Literature in English. Eds. Binod Mishra, et al. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers and Distributors, 2015. 15-24.
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