Full Professor
| Name: | Paula Martín Salván |  |
| Position: | Full Professor | |
| Research group: | Research in English and Related Literature. HUM-682 | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 81 35 | |
| Email address: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Address: | Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Ala biblioteca oeste, 2ª planta |
I have been teaching at the University of Córdoba since 2005, having completed my doctorate at Córdoba in the same year. My teaching broadly covers literature, theory and cultural studies in the English speaking world. I have also been guest lecturer at the universities of Aalborg, Denmark (2006) and Ludwig-Maximilians at Munich, Germany (2010).
My research focuses on modern and contemporary literatures in English, with special but not exclusive emphasis on American fiction. I have published monographs on Don DeLillo (U. Of Cordoba, 2009) and Graham Greene (Palgrave, 2015), as well as essays on the work of J.M. Coetzee, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead, Amy Waldman, and Joseph Conrad.
Since 2010 I have been part of a research team involving researchers from the universities of Córdoba and Granada, devoted to the study of community and fiction. I have been the main researcher in two of the four projects we have developed together (Individual and Community in Modernist Fiction in English, 2013-2015 Democracy, Dissidence and Secrecy in Contemporary English Literature, 2020-2023, and the ongoing coordinated project Poetics and Politics of Transparency in Contemporary Literature in English, 2024-2027). As a team, we have organized conferences in 2014, 2018 and 2023, and we have produced three edited collections of essays: Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2013), New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (Routledge, 2017) and Secrecy and Community in 21st Century Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). Our current project focuses on the Poetics and Politics of Transparency in Contemporary Literature in English.
I am currently head of the research team “English and Related Literature” (HUM-682): http://www.uco.es/writsofempire/index.html
See other publications at Academia perfiles de Academia or Google Scholar.
Main publications
Books
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Juan Luis Pérez de Luque & Paula Martín-Salván, eds. Democracy in Contemporary Fiction in English. Peter Lang (forthcoming).
- Paula Martín Salván & Sascha Pöhlmann, eds. The Politics of Transparency: Fear, Secrecy and Exposure in Modern American Fiction. Camden House (Boydell), 2024. ISBN: 9781640141667.
- Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Paula Martín Salván and María J. López, eds. New perspectives on community and the modernist subject. Finite, singular, exposed. Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 9780815369622.
- The Language of Ethics and Community in Graham Greene’s Fiction. London: Palgrave, 2015. ISBN: 9781137540102.
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Paula Martín Salván, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Julián Jiménez Heffernan, eds. Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 9781137282835.
Articles and book chapters
- “The Politics of Re-Naming All-Black Towns in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt”. Spaces in Transit: Literary and Cultural Responses to Mnemonic Landscapes. Eds. L. López Ropero and M. Sokołowska-Paryż, eds. DeGruyter, 2024 (en prensa).
- “Self-Cancelling Narratives: Explicit Unreliability and Authorial (Ir)Responsibility in Toni Morrison’s Fiction”. Journal of Narrative Theory 54.1 (2024): 107-135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2024.a929264
- “(Un)grieving Celestial in Toni Morrison’s Love”. The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-) Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction. Eds. Susana Onega & Jean-Michel Ganteau. Routledge, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347811
- “The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection”. Troubling Houses. Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire. Eds. Cristina Alsina & Rodrigo Andrés. Brill, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004521117_015
- “A jail within a jail”: Concealment and Unveiling as Narrative Structure in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 2021, DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2021.1887074.
- “‘Where all is known and nothing understood’: Narrative sequence and textual secrets in Toni Morrison’s Love”. Secrecy and Community in Contemporary Fiction in English López, María J. & Pilar Villar-Argáiz, eds. Bloomsbury, 2021. 55-70. ISBN: 9781501365539.
- “Community, Scapegoating, and Narrative Structure in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes”. Journal of Narrative Theory 49.2 (2019): 169-192. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2019.0007
- “The Secret of Bride’s Body in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.5 (2018): 609-623. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2018.1470080
Research projects
- Poéticas y políticas de la transparencia en la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Universidad de Córdoba y Universidad de Granada
01/09/2024-31/08/2027
Investigador responsable: Paula Martín Salván
- Democracia, secreto y disidencia en la literatura contemporánea en inglés (PID2019-104526GB-I00)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Universidad de Córdoba y Universidad de Granada
01/06/2020-30/05/2022
Investigador responsable: Paula Martín Salván
- "Secreto y comunidad en la narrativa contemporánea en inglés" (FFI2016-75589-P)
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Universidad de Córdoba y Universidad de Granada
30/12/2016-29/12/2019
Investigador responsable: María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno
- "Individuo y comunidad en la narrativa modernista en inglés" (FFI2012-36765)
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Universidad de Córdoba y Universidad de Granada
01/01/2013-31/12/2015
Investigadora responsable: Paula Martín Salván
- "Comunidad e inmunidad en la novela contemporánea en inglés" (FFI2009-13244)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Universidad de Córdoba y Universidad de Granada
01/01/2010-31/12/2012
Investigador responsable: Julián Jiménez Heffernan