José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez
Master's Programme in English Studies: Professional Applications & Intercultural Communication
Position/ Status
Lecturer
E-mail address
Phone number
(+34) 950 015 404
Office
Humanities Building II, 2.26
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Modern Languages (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)
Licenciatura in English Philology (University of Murcia)
Membership of Academic Associations
Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
Poe Studies Association (PSA)
The Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association (EAPSA)
Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS)
Websites
Profile
José R. Ibáñez earned a licenciatura in English Philology at the University of Murcia. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. in Modern Languages at Wayne State University, one of Michigan's largest academic institutions. His teaching career began in 1993 in the Department of Romance Languages at Wayne State University, where he worked as a Teaching Assistant and an Adjunt Faculty from 1993 to 1998. Since 2002, he has been teaching language and literature courses in the Department of Philology at the University of Almería.
His research is focused on American Literature, and he has a particular interest in Edgar Allan Poe, twentieth- century American hyphenated authors (e.g. Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri), Jewish American short fiction, and Southern Literature. He currently serves on the editorial board of The Edgar Allan Poe Review and and as Vice President of the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association (EAPSA). In April 2021, he was appointed as Treasurer of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS). In February 2020, he organized the 2nd International Conference of the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association at the University of Almería. Together with Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, he is preparing the edition of a volume on Edgar Allan Poe.
Research Topics
Edgar Allan Poe
American short story
Hyphenated American authors
Southern Literature (Literature of the American South)
Studies in American culture and society
Translation Studies
Courses taught in the Master's Programme
British & American Cultures and Societies (Module 1)
Landmarks in Contemporary English and American Literatures (Module 2)
Professional Translation Techniques (Module 3)
The British Presence in Andalusia: New Needs in Professional Communication (Module 3)
Latest academic publications (updated information can be found on Lindisfarne Research Group)
Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, Santiago & José R. Ibáñez. "Anthologies as Tools of Literary Hospitality: The Case of Edgar Allan Poe in Spain (1850-1936)." Journal of World Literature, 8 (2023): 313-336.
Ibáñez, José R. "Identity and Religious Traits in Jewish-American Literature. A Hansenian Reading of the Short Fiction of Bernard Malamud and Nathan Englander." Brno Studies in English, 47.2 (2021): 69-86.
Ibáñez, José R. "(In)hospitable languages and Linguistic Hospitality in Hyphenated American Literature: The Case of Ha Jin." 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. 77-93.
Ibáñez, José R. "In the Footsteps of the ‘Goldsmith of Magical Wonders.’ Revisiting the Popular Poe in Pío Baroja’s Early Tales.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 20, no 1 (Spring 2019): 96-109.
Tsokanos, Dimitrios & José R. Ibáñez. "‘Such as might have arisen only out of hell': A Note on Poe's Hellenic Motifs in ‘The Black Cat.’” Complutense Journal of English Studies, 26 (2018): 111-120.
Ibáñez, José R. "Poe's Unity of Effect Called into Question: Revisiting Cortázar's Translation of 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'" The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 76-87.
Ibáñez, José R. “'All the Guns Must Have the Same Caliber': A Kachruvian Study of Ha Jin's Chineseness in 'Winds and Clouds over a Funeral.'” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 42, 2 (September 2016): 195- 220.
José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez
