
Marta Perez-Carbonell
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Romance LanguagesMarta Pérez-Carbonell focuses on contemporary Spanish cultural production. Her research studies novels and short fiction, which she approaches from a variety of frameworks, such as material culture studies, affect theory or urban studies.
Her first monograph, The Fictional World of Javier Marías - Language and Uncertainty (2016) was published by Brill/Rodopi in their series Foro Hispánico. She is interested in "crisis literature" memory, identity, and gender studies. She has published peer-reviewed articles on the works of Isaac Rosa, Juan José Millás, Rosa Montero, Nuria Labari and other contemporary Spanish authors in Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, among other publications. Her current project will provide a new interdisciplinary framework for Rosa Montero's oeuvre.
In 2020, she was awarded Professor of the Year by the national collegiate honor society Phi Eta Sigma.