Ramsés Martínez Barquero

Ramses is a M.A/Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He earned a BA in Spanish Philology in Barcelona, where he was born and raised. He started working and collaborating with GEXEL (Grupo de Estudios del Exilio Literario) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a group that focuses on the Spanish Republican Exile, which took place after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). His interests and research projects have focused on the republican exile so far, doing research about well-known authors such as Max Aub or almost unknown authors like Álvaro de Orriols. He is also interested and has worked on the communication between the exiled authors and the ones who lived inside Spain during Franco’s dictatorship. Due to that, he is interested and has worked, for example, with Max Aub’s and Antonio Buero Vallejo’s epistles during this period of time. He is also interested in contemporary theatre and authors such as Juan Mayorga, which are closer to the present. During these years, he plans to keep investigating on Spanish Republican Exile along with XXth and XXIth century Spanish literature, focusing on exile, literature during the dictatorship and cultural studies that focus on topics such as cultural memory or historical memory in Spain and Europe.

Publications:

• “Paradigma de Una Doble Invisibilidad Identitaria: Homosexualidad y Catalanismo en El día que murió Marilyn de Terenci Moix”, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Special Issue: (In)Visible Identities Under Francoism: Censorship, Minorities, and Resistance in Cultural Production”, 27.1. [Accepted]
• “Forced into emptiness: envisioning women’s future in Maria Judite de Carvalho’s Os armários vazíos”, Journal of Lusophone Studies. [Submitted]
• “Vigilancia, control y castigo: el cuerpo policial en La colmena de Camilo José Cela”, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 101(9), 2023, pp. 1309-1328.
• “«Siempre se puede hacer algo»: la esperanza en el Teatro Mayor de Max Aub”, El Correo de Euclides. Anuario científico de la Fundación Max Aub, 14-15 (2019), pp. 84–97.

Book Chapters:

• “Max Aub y Antonio Buero Vallejo: una amistad epistolar entre un dramaturgo del interior y otro del exilio”, in Puentes de diálogo entre el exilio republicano de 1939 y el interior, edited by José Ramón López García, Manuel Aznar Soler, Juan Rodríguez, and Esther Lázaro Sanz, Renacimiento (Biblioteca del Exilio, Anejos, 51), 2021, pp. 393–409.

Book Reviews:

• Review Maquis i masovers. (Entre la resistencia la supervivència i el terror), by Raúl González Devís, Onada (Biblioteca de la Barcella), Sansueña: revista de estudios sobre el exilio republicano de 1939, n.2, 2020, pp. 177-179.

Conference Papers:

• “Diglosia e (in)visibilidad lingüística en la novela barcelonesa de la España franquista” 58th NeMLA (Northeastern Modern Language Association) Convention, March 6^th to March 9^th, 2027, Newport, Rhode Island.
• “Defying Salazarist success: dissonant childhoods and education in Vergílio Ferreira’s Manhã Submersa” 14th APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) International Conference, October 22^nd to October 24^th, 2026, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
• “Forced into emptiness: envisioning women’s future in Maria Judite de Carvalho’s ‘Os armários vazíos’” 13th APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) International Conference, October 3^rd to October 5^th, 2024, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
• “‘You’ll hear a train, that is, a thought’: Expressing trauma in Antonio Buero Vallejo’s El tragaluz” 55th NeMLA (Northeastern Modern Language Association) Convention, March 7^th to March 10^th, 2024, Boston, Massachusetts
• “Personajes femeninos en el teatro mayor de Max Aub” Jornadas online Recuperación de un patrimonio silenciado II: literatura de mujeres en España e Hispanoamérica (siglos XVII-XXI), November 4th to November 5th , 2020, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• “Max Aub y Antonio Buero Vallejo: una amistad epistolar entre un dramaturgo de interior y otro del exilio” VI Congreso Internacional 80 años después: Puentes de diálogo entre el exilio republicano de 1939 y el interior, December 18th to December 20th, 2019, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• “«Siempre se puede hacer algo»: La esperanza en el Teatro Mayor de Max Aub” Congreso Internacional Max Aub y las Artes, November 24th to November 25th, 2019, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.