Faculty of Humanities
P. Valdivia Martin
dr. P. (Pablo) Valdivia Martin
Capaciteitsgroep Romaanse talen en culturen University of Amsterdam


Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam

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Dr Pablo Valdivia (Assistant Professor in Spanish Literature)

A. Degrees:

  • BA Hons in ‘Filología Española/Hispanic Studies’ (University of Granada)
  • BA Hons in ‘Teoría de la literatura y Literatura Comparada/Literary Theory and Comparative Literature’ (University of Valladolid)
  • MA in European literature and theater (UNED)
  • PhD in Philosophy of Hispanic Studies (University of Nottingham) PhD obtained with distinction.




B.Present Post:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, University of Amsterdam (2010-    )
  • Member Advisory Board, University of Nottingham, International Consortium for the Post-Conflict Cultures (2011-   )
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham (2010-    )








C. Previous Posts:

  • Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham (2007–2010)
  • Lecturer course Spanish and Spanish-American Culture, Literature and Society. Villiers Park Trust, Cambridge (2005-2010)
  • Teaching Assistant. Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham (2004–2007)





D. Work in progress and future projects:


  • Co- Researcher International Project " RECONSTRUCCION DE LOS LIBROS DE POESIA DE JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ (QUE QUEDARON INEDITOS A LA MUERTE DEL POETA) A PARTIR DE LOS DOCUMENTOS DE SUS ARCHIVOS (CONTINUACION)./ RECONSTRUCTION UNPUBLISHED POETRY BOOKS WRITTEN BY JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ"  Ref.: FFI2011-26180 Spanish Ministry of Education. Universidad de Valladolid, Yale University, Copenhague University and University of Amsterdam. From 2012-2015. http://www5.uva.es/plityteo/main_proy.php?id=7 
  • Director. International Project “Hispanic and European exile: diaspora, memory and identity after 1939”. Based at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, University of Newcastle, Escuela de Artes de Granada, Universidad de Málaga. Funded by Banco Santander. From 2010 to 2015.

  • Co-researcher International Project “Conceptos e ideas en la prosa española del siglo XVI”. Based at the Universidad de Granada, Université Sorbonne (Paris), Yale University, Universidad de Valladolid, University of Nottingham and Universiteit van Amsterdam. Funded by Spanish Government (Proyecto I+D) Project number: FFI2010-19117. From 2011 to 2014.

  • Academic edition of Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina for the collection “Letras Hispánicas”, Cátedra. Funded by Cátedra. Based at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. From 2011 to 2012.

  • Research Fellow. International Project “The library of the Count-Duke of Olivares: a mirror ofpower, patronage, and Baroque culture in Golden Age Spain”. Based at University of Nottinghamand University of Oxford. Funded by the AHRC From 2009 to 2012.

     D.1. External academic and professional research activities:
    
     External evaluation European PhD 
 


  • External referee PhD thesis "El concepto de generación en la actividad crítica y teórica de Oreste Macrí"by Tommaso Testaverde, Universidad de Granada (Spain).

  • External referee PhD thesis "Poética de la brevedad. Teoría literaria del microrrelato español e hispanoamericano" by Rosa María Navarro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

  • External referee PhD thesis "Poesía y deixis: hacia una poética gestual en la obra de César Vallejo y de Antonio Gamoneda" by Carlota Fernández-Jauregui Rojas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

  • External referee PhD thesis "Fábulas de la traducción. Sobre la propiedad y su economía" by Fabio Vélez Bertomeu, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

  • External referee PhD thesis “El dibujo del califa de Wyndham Lewis” by Yolanda Morató Agrafojo, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). 

  • External referee PhD thesis "La crítica de la literatura española en el semanario Destino (1939-1968). La novela" by Blanca Ripoll Sintes, Universidad de Barcelona (Spain).







E.Invited Papers:

  • "José Ricardo Morales: the never-ending exile", Newcastle University, Hispanic Research Seminars, (6 May 2011).

  • "José Ricardo Morales' Complete Works: the legacy of the Spanish Exile", Centro Cultural de España, Santiago de Chile, Chile, (12 April 2011).

  • "Antonio Machado y la búsqueda del Volksgeist español", International MA in Pensamiento Filosófico Español, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (23 March 2011).

  • "El viaje y la memoria en la prosa tempranade Federico García Lorca", International MA in Literatura de la memoria, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (23 March 2011).

  • “Antonio Muñoz Molina and the dark night of Europe”, International Research Seminars Centre for the Study of Post Conflict Cultures, University of Nottingham, (Willoughby Hall, 24 February 2011).

  • “José Ricardo Morales: identidad, destierro y ‘postumidad’”, Beta Congreso Internacional Asociación Jóvenes Doctores en Hispanismo, (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9 February 2011).

  • “Poliacroasis, memoria e identidad en la articulación de los discursos de poder: el caso de Sefarad de Antonio Muñoz Molina”, Congreso Internacional de Retórica Política,   (Universidad CEU San Pablo de Madrid, 20-21 January 2011).

  • “El viaje hacia la literatura de Federico García Lorca: la escritura como proyecto interdiscursivo”, Seminarios de investigación de la Autónoma en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada /Autónoma’s Research Seminars in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 14 January 2011).

  • “Sefarad de Antonio Muñoz Molina y la oscura noche de Europa”, Seminario  Literaturas europeas, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 10 January 2011).

  • “Poder, mercado y recepción: el espacio del poeta en el gobierno del Conde-Duque de Olivares y su actualización en la ‘Edad de Plata’”, The Republic of Letters, (International Conference in the Graduate Center of New York, Hispanic Society of America and Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York 14-16 September 2010).

  • “Cinema, art and sport in the Spanish Avant-garde literature”, Sport in Conflict and Post-Conflict Cultures Nottingham 19-21 May 2010, (International Conference in the Centre for the Study of Post Conflict Cultures. University of Nottingham. Nottingham 21 May 2010).

  • “La noción de las ‘tres culturas’ en la obra de de José Ricardo Morales” José Ricardo Morales: el teatro del exilo español en Chile, (Annual International Conference, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, King’s College, London 12-14April 2010).

  • “La noción de ‘Españolada’ en Ardor con ardor se apaga de José Ricardo Morales” (International Symposium in the Centre for the Study of the Hispanic Exile. University of Birmingham. Birmingham 25 March 2010).

  • “Juan del Encina: author and reader” (International Research Seminars Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham 11 November 2009).

  • “Spanish Post-War Posters: The case of Josep Renau” (International Seminars Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham 18 March, 2009).

  • “Juan Ramón Jiménez y su compromiso con la realidad” (Tardes con las Letras, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Jaén, España 29 May 2008).

  • “Doña Rosita la Soltera: A tribute to Don Martín Domínguez Berrueta” (Federico García Lorca, Annual International Conference, Association of Hispanist of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Sheffield 25-27 March 2008.)

  • “Impresiones y paisajes de García Lorca” (Congreso Internacional sobre literatura y viajes, Universidad Complutense,Madrid 19-21 September 2007).

  • “Federico García Lorca and symbolist decadentism” (XX Century Literature, Annual International Conference, Association of HispanistofGreat Britainand Ireland, University of Aberdeen 2-4 April 2007).

  • “Syriana: cultural aspects” (International Research Seminars on Cinema and Conflict, Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures, University of Nottingham 31 October 2006).

  • “Federico García Lorca: New Readings” (International New Research Forum, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham 9 June 2006).

  • “Poesía española” (Postgraduate International Symposium in Hispanic Studies, University College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures and Film, Dublin 31 March-1 April 2006).

  • “Music and Post-Conflict in the Spanish Post Civil War” (International Research Seminars, Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures, University of Nottingham, 2005).

  • “Lorca: The Young Artist” (Hispanic Society, University of Nottingham, 16 and 17 November 2004).

  • “Impresiones y paisajes o una aventura personal de descubrimiento” (International Hommage to Richard Cardwell, University of Nottingham, 2004).

  • “Manuel de Valdearazo, un testimonio de la vida cotidiana en la Guerra Civil española y la Postguerra” (International Research Seminars Department ofSpanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies, University of Nottingham 2003).


           E.1.  Promotion of research:
           
            Research supervision
               
                 
  • Supervisor MA thesis Memoria prestada by Marije Hristova-Dijkstra, which obtained cum laude distinction. 2010-2011.

  • Supervisor post-doctoral research six months stay of Dr. Raquel Velázquez (Universidad de Barcelona) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam 1 February- 1 August 2011.




F.Conference Organization:


  • (organizer) Conference "Fascination for the Foe: Self and Other in the Dutch and Spanish Golden Age", Rijksmuseum-University of Amsterdam 20-21 September 2012. 

 

  • (organizer)  Conference  “Heterodoxias y periferias en la poesía hispánica del Bajo Barroco”, University of Amsterdam 28-29 June 2012.

 

  • (organizer) Series "Encuentros con la poesía". Lecture by Antonio Carvajal. Instituto Cervantes Utrecht and University of Amsterdam. 27 February 2012.

  • (organizer) Lecture "Bicentenarios: la doble escritura" by Juan Carlos Chirinos and Fernando Martínez Laínez, 29 Noviembre 2011.

  • (organizer)  Spinoza Lecture "La memoria incompleta" by Antonio Muñoz Molina at the University of Utrecht 20 October 2011.

  • (organizer) Inaugural lecture Juan Ramón Jiménez: aquél chopo de luz: Professor Richard Cardwell (University of Nottingham and José Martín de Vayas (Director del Centro Andaluz de las Letras). Instituto Cervantes Utrecht,Centro Andaluz de las Letras, University of Amsterdam. 13 October 2011. 19h.

  • (organizer) Exhibition Juan Ramón Jiménez: aquél chopo de luz (Instituto Cervantes Utrecht, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, University of Amsterdam; 13 October-20 November 2011).

  • (organizer) Lecture “Literature and Power in the Baroque Republic of Letters” by Jeremy Lawrance (University of Nottingham) at the University of Amsterdam 3 March 2011.

  • (organizer) Lecture  “Aping cultures: stereotype and difference in the genre of the political cartoon. On imagined islands and banana republics” by Professor Bernard McGuirk (University of Nottingham) at the University of Amsterdam 2 March 2011.

  • (panel organizer) José Ricardo Morales: el teatro del exilo español enChile (Annual International Conference,Association ofHispanist of Great Britain and Ireland, King’s College, London12-14 April 2010; international conference on Spanish-American Theatre)

  • (co-organizer with Prof. JeremyLawrance, Dr. Oliver Noble-Wood, Dr. Jeremy Roe) Bibliotecas y bibliofilia en la época del Conde-Duque de Olivares (Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, Biblioteca Real, Patrimonio Nacional 24-26 September 2009; international conference on Golden Age literature)

  • (panel organizer) Federico García Lorca: new readings (University ofSheffield, Association of Hispanist of Great Britain andIreland 25-27 March 2007; international annual conference on Spanish and Spanish-American literature)

  • (organizer) International Research Seminars Cinema and Conflict (University of Nottingham Academic Year 2006-2007; international seminars on cinema and conflict)

  • (co-organizer with Prof. B. McGuirk) Happiness and Post-Conflict (University of Nottingham 2006; international conference on post-conflict cultures)

  • (co-organizer with Prof. B. McGuirk) Malvinas/FalklandsConflict: 20 years on (University of Nottingham 17-19 November 2006; international conference on Spanish-american literature and culture)




G. Other:

 

  • 2011-           : Member University of Amsterdam group Literature and the extended present.
  • 2006— 2010 (founder member and secretary of events) Centre forthe Study of Post-Conflict Cultures (University of Nottingham, University of Bologna, University of Lisbon)




H . Invited academic stays:


  • Department of Hispanic Studies, Newcastle University as visiting professor from 02-05-2011 to 06-05-2011.

  • Department of 'Pensamiento Filosófico Español', Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as visiting professor from 22-03-2011 to 24-03-2011.

  • Department of Comparative Literature, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as visiting professor from 10-01-2011 to 15-01-2011.





I. Membership of professional associations:


Asociación de Hispanismo Filosófico

Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland

Association of Hispanists of Benelux

Beta. Association of Young Doctors in Hispanism




J. Teaching:


Undergraduate teaching and examining (current)

  •  Introducción a la literatura española e hispanoamericana

  • Gramática española  



Undergraduate teaching and examining (taught)
 


 1stYear:      

 

  • Spanish American Literature (3 years)

  • Spanish Language (2 years)

  • Comparative Grammar Spanish-Dutch (1 year)



2nd Year:  
  

  • Panorama de la literatura hispánica y latinoamericana (1 year)

  • Modern Spanish Literature (1 year)

  • Spanish Language (2 years)




4th Year:

  • Seven masterpieces: Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina (2 years)

  • Cultural Conflicts and Negotiations (1 year)

  • Federico García Lorca (2 years)

  • Modern ComparativePoetry (1 year)

  • Film and Literature under Franco (1year)

  • Spanish Language (3 years)


Postgraduate teaching     

 

  • Las lenguas del mundo hispánico: identidady poder (1 year)

  • Cinema and conflict (1 year)

  • La Renovación Cultural Española: poesía, pintura y teatro (1898-1939)(2 years)



External teaching
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 23 March 2011 Lecturer MA course Pensamiento Filosófico Español.

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 23 March 2011 Lecturer MA course Literatura de la Memoria.

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 14 January 2011 Lecturer PhD course Comparative Literature, European Literature and Communication.

  • Universidad Autónoma deMadrid 10 January 2011Lecturer Undergraduate course European Literature.

  • Course Tutor Spanish and Spanish-American Culture, Literature and Society, Villiers Park Trust, Cambridge. NationalAcademy for Gifted and Talented Youth. (Course taught from 2005— 2010)





K. Participation in international academic forums:




Participation International Annual Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Summit, University of Amsterdam, 28 October 2011.

Participation International Conference Association of Hispanists of Benelux, Radbound Univeristy of Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 22 October 2010.

Participation International Conference A revoluçao dos Cravos 35 Anos Depois University of Nottingham, 24-25 April 2009.

Participation International Conference Trauma, Memory, Reconstruction: Ways ahead? University of Nottingham, 21-23 May 2009.


Participation International ConferenceCinema and Post-Conflict, Vila-Nova de Milfontes (Portugal), CIDESC, 24-27 May 2007.

Participation International Conference Association of Hispanists of Great Britain andIreland Antes y después del Quijote, Valencia 2005.

Participation International Conference Malvinas/Falklands20years on, Universityof Nottingham 2003.

Participation International Conference Homenaje al Profesor Andrés Soria Ortega,Universidad deGranada,7-8 May 2002.

Participation International Conference III JornadasdelEstudio del Teatro Infantil yJuvenil, Granada 1999.

Participation International Conference X RencontresThéâtre et Jeunesse pour l’Europe, Grenoble1998.





L. Complementary training:

 

  • Course Planning Research and Time Management (University of Nottingham. 2004-2005).

  • Course Nature of the PhD and the Supervision Process (University of Nottingham.2004-2005).

  • Course Introduction to Cultural Studies (University of Nottingham. 2002-2003).

  • Course Introduction to Post-Modernism (University of Nottingham. 2002-2003).

  • Course Introduction to Marxist Aesthetics/Marxist Criticism (University of Nottingham.2002-2003).

  • Course Encuentro-homenaje a Rafael Alberti en el Centenario de su Nacimiento (Universidad de Granada. 2002).

  • Course 24 hours of Poetry (Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria y cooperación al Desarrollo de la Universidad de Granada. 2001).

  • Course La palabra viva de Rafael Alberti (Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Sede AntonioMachado deBaeza. 2000).

  • Course La Philologie Française à la croisée del’an 2000: panorama littéraire et linguistique (Universidad de Granada.2000).

  • Course Borges Cien Años, Encuentro Internacional (Universidad de Granada. 1999).

  • Courses Music, (Real Conservatorio Victoria Eugenia, Granada, 1988-1993).


M. Languages:

  • English: C2
  • French: B1
  • Portuguese: A1
  • Dutch: B1








N. Prizes, interviews and others:


  • Presentation lecture by Laura Freixas at the Instituto Cervantes Utrecht. 19 January 2011. 19h.

  • Book presentation: La velocidad de la niebla (Organized by Delegación Junta deAndalucía en Bruselas and Centro Andaluz de las Letras. 08/11/2011.Brussels, 18h) Introduction by Dr RossWoods (VictoriaUniversity, New Zealand).

  • Book presentation: La velocidad de la niebla (University of Amsterdam. BG5, room 2.13. 18h. Organized by the Cervantes Institute, Utrecht and ASCA, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA. 07/11/2011) Introduction Dr Ross Woods (Victoria University, New Zealand) and Dr Antonio Sánchez Jiménez (Universidad de Ámsterdam, The Netherlands).

  • Poetry collection: La velocidad de la niebla by Pablo Valdivia. El genio maligno. 2011.

  • Interview and article magazine Babel (Amsterdam) "Marx and the Matrix". Issue October, 2011.

  • Book presentation: La Vereda Indecisa (Granada Book Fair 23/04/2010)

  • Review in El Genio Maligno (Revista de Humanidades y ciencias sociales) entitled ‘Respirar bajo el agua de Pablo Valdivia o ¿qué es la poesía?’, 4 (March 2009) ISSN: 1988-3927. 213-217.

  • Book presentation: Respirar bajo el agua (Nottingham, 28/10/2008; Granada, 05/11/2008; Sevilla 19/11/2008).

  • Interview in La Opinión de Granada: http://www.laopiniondegranada.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2008110500_28_87167__Cultura-Pablo-Valdivia-buen-poema-debe-tener-cierta-altura-intelectual.

  • Poetry collection: Respirar bajo el agua by Pablo Valdivia. Alhulia. 2008.

  • Public Readingof Poems. University of Nottingham. 8 June 2006.

  • Interview. Department of Hispanic andLatin American Studies in the Prospectus for PostgraduateStudents.Universityof Nottingham. UK. 2005-2006 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hispanic/courses/pg_student_profil

  • Public Reading of Poems. University College Dublin. (UCD). Ireland. April 2006.

  • Review in Artsnewsletter. University College Dublín(UCD) No.13. April 2006.

  • Interview and article in “El Paísdelas Tentaciones” El País. 13 May 2005.

  • Public Reading of Poems. Colegio Mayor Cardenal Cisneros. Granada. May 2002.

  • Public Reading of Poems. Carmen de la Victoria. Granada. March 2001.

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