Teaching
I currently teach three courses at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: two at the undergraduate level and a graduate seminar in the MA in English Literary Studies.
Literature and Culture of English-Speaking Countries: Modernism Undergraduate
An introduction to Anglo-American literary modernism in the early twentieth century. The reading list combines critical and contextual essays (Marshall Berman, Matei Calinescu) and programmatic texts of the avant-garde (Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, Pound’s Imagist principles) with primary works of fiction and poetry: short stories and novels by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, alongside poetry by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle. Specific sessions are devoted to the role of female editors and modernist literary magazines such as The Little Review.
Literature and Film Criticism in English Undergraduate
The course approaches mass cultural phenomena from the mid-twentieth century to the present from the combined perspectives of literary, film and media studies. It is organized into four blocks: Marshall McLuhan and the idea of the global village; Alfred Hitchcock’s work in television and cinema, with case studies of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Vertigo and Psycho; the political and aesthetic dimensions of the Disney industry; and questions of reality, simulation and surveillance approached through Peter Weir’s The Truman Show and selected episodes of Black Mirror.
Language and Representation in English Literature Graduate
A seminar in literary theory. The course covers the trajectory from Aristotle’s Poetics through Saussure’s relational paradigm, Russian Formalism (Shklovsky, Eikhenbaum, Tynianov), the Bakhtin Circle, the Marxist criticism of György Lukács, and the structuralism of the Prague School (Mukařovský, Jakobson). Closing units are devoted to four individual theorists of the second half of the twentieth century: Susan Sontag, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida.
My teaching has been evaluated under DOCENTIA-UAM, the institutional programme for the assessment of teaching quality at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In the most recent evaluation cycle, covering the academic years 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23, I obtained a score of 94.51 out of 100 and was placed in Category A, the highest of the four possible categories. The certification is valid through the 2027-28 academic year.
As a member of ITEM (Instituto del Teatro de Madrid), I am also a faculty member of the Ph.D. Program in Theatrical Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where I contribute to two workshops for first- and second-year doctoral students.
For a complete record of courses taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the University of Cincinnati, Indiana University and the University of Toronto, see my CV.