Martín Salván, Paula (Dr.)

Profile

Paula Martín Salván (Madrid, 1978)

Associate Professor at the Department of English and German Studies of the University of Córdoba since 2012. In 2001 she obtained a competitive scholarship to carry on her doctoral studies at the University of Córdoba, where she worked as a Research Fellow for four years. She completed her PhD thesis on Don DeLillo's fiction in 2005. Her research interests include American literature, Modernist and Postmodernist fiction, literary and critical theory, 18th century political and aesthetic thought. She has been a visiting scholar at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University (USA) and at the Universities of Aalborg (Denmark), Toronto (Canada), California at Irvine (USA) and and Nottingham (UK). She has written on the work of Modernist and Postmodernist authors, including Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Robert Coover, Cormac McCarthy, J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene.

Research Interests

American literature, Modernist and Postmodernist fiction, literary and critical theory (ideology and deconstruction), 18th century political and aesthetic thought.

Current Projects

Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Literature in English (2019-2022), Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (PID2019-104526GB-I00).

Professional activity

Teaches English and American Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain.
Guest lecturer at the University of Granada, in the MA Program in English Literature and Linguistics and the Erasmus Mundus MA Program in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA)

Publications

Books

The Language of Ethics and Community in Graham Greene’s Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
New perspectives on community and the modernist subject. Finite, singular, exposed. Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Paula Martín Salván and María J. López, eds. Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 9780815369622.
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Eds. Paula Martín Salván, Julián Jiménez Heffernan and Gerardo Rodríguez Salas. Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2013.
Don DeLillo. Tropologías de la Postmodernidad. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba: Córdoba, 2009.
Figures of Belatedness. Postmodernist Fiction in English. Co-edited with Javier Gascueña Gahete. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba: Córdoba, 2006.

Critical Editions

El negro del 'Narcissus'. Critical edition of Joseph Conrad's novel The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'. Abada: Madrid, 2009.
El espíritu del lugar: Jardín y paisaje en la Inglaterra moderna. Abada: Madrid, 2006. A collection of essays on the English garden by Bacon, Addison, Pope, Walpole and Chambers.

Articles and Book Chapters

“In Memoriam: J. Hillis Miller”, with Susana Onega Jaén and María Jesús López Alfaro. Nexus 2021. 01: 7-14.
“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.
“The Arrivant in Toni Morrison's Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection”. American Houses. Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire. Rodrigo Andrés and Cristina Alsina Rísquez, eds. (forthcoming; Brill).
“Narrative Structure and the Unnarrated in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad”. ES. Spanish Journal of English Studies no. 41, Oct. 2020, pp. 11-33, doi:10.24197/ersjes.41.2020.11.
“El mito interrumpido en la narrativa de Joseph Conrad”. En Metáforas de la Multitud. En torno al pensamiento de Antonio Negri, ed M. Corella, J.L. Villacañas. Lengua de Trapo, 2019. ISBN: 978-84-8381-244-0.
“Rethinking Community in Literature and Literary Studies: The Secret Communal Life of Toni Morrison’s Paradise”. Rethinking Community: Towards Transdisciplinary Community Research. Ed. Bettina Jansen. Palgrave, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8. Pages 195-212.
“Community, Scapegoating, and Narrative Structure in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes”. Journal of Narrative Theory 49.2 (2019): 169-192.
“The Secret of Bride’s Body in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.5 (2018): 609-623.
“Secrets, Lies and Non-Events: The Production of Causality and Self- Deconstruction in Toni Morrison’s God Help The Child”. Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought 1.1 (2018): 65-80.
“Unwelcome visitations: Hospitality, individual and community in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes”. New perspectives on community and the modernist subject. Finite, singular, exposed. Eds. Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Paula Martín-Salván, María J. López. Routledge, 2018: 43-58.
“La comunidad desobrada y la novela modernista: El caso de Katherine Mansfield”. Paula Martín Salván Gerardo Rodríguez Salas. Badebec: Revista del Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria 7.13 (2017): 301-320.
“Public Art and Communal Space: The Politics of Commemoration in Amy Waldman's The Submission”. Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature. Eds. María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín. Palgrave, 2017: 87-104.
“’The best of a seaman's care': Community and Forced Hospitality in Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus’”. English Studies 96.8 (2015): 891-912.
“Of childhoods and other ferocious times: Traumatic Reverberation in Don DeLillo’s Underworld”. Amerikastudien/American Studies 59.3 (2014): 335-355.
“The Writer Begins in the Towers: don DeLillo, 9/11 and the Ethics of Testimony”. In The Future of Testimony. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Ed. Antony Rowland. London: Routledge, 2014. 216-225. ISBN: 9781135010010.
“‘To feel pity even for the planets’: The Aporias of Responsibility in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter”. En Ethics of Alterity: Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th to 21st British Literature. Ed. Jean Michel Ganteau y Christine Reynier. Montpellier: Presses Méditerranées, 2012 Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2013.
“The Stricken Community: Recidivism and Restoration in American 9/11 Fiction”. Co-autor/Co-autores: Julián Jiménez Heffernan. The Arizona Quarterly 69.2 (2013): 145-169. ISSN: 0004-1610.
"'All designed from the outside': Distorted Communication and Communal Structures in William Gaddis' Carpenter's Gothic". EJES. European Journal of English Studies 16.2 (2012): 43-53. ISSN: 1382-5577.
"Community, Enquiry and Auto-Immunity in Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case". LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 22.4 (2011): 301-322. ISSN: 1043-6928.
"Apocalypse, Memory and Survival: A Reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road as Trauma Narrative". En Between the Urge to Know and the Need to Deny: Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British and American Literature. Eds. M. Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2011. 145-160. ISBN: 978-84-96775-85-5.
"Terror, asceticism and epigrammatic writing in Don DeLillo's fiction". In Terrorism, Media and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo. Ed. Peter Schneck and Philipp Schweighauser. New York: Continuum, 2010. 145-157.
"En medio de ninguna parte: J.M. Coetzee como autor postmodernista". La escritura de la inhóspito. Ensayos sobre la narrativa de J.M. Coetzee. Ed. Mª Jesús López. Abada: Madrid, 2010. 133-164.
"Ideas of Community in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49"". Pynchon Notes 56-57 (2009): 74-86.
"'A language not quite of this world': Transcendence and Counter-Linguistic Turns in Don DeLillo's Fiction". Babel A.F.I.A.L. 18 (2009): 71-92.
"Topographies of Blankness in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction". Odisea 9 (2009): 145-153.
"Our Offering is Language: Speech and Communication Disorders in the Narrative of Don DeLillo". In Pereira, F (ed.) Literature And Psychoanalysis, Instituto Superior de Psicología Aplicada (ISPA), Lisboa, 2008, pp. 107-113; ISSN: 9789728400859.
" 'The great worth of the people': Models of community in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo". Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 16 (2008): 89-109.
" 'Where everything converges to a point': Conspiracy as narrative model in Don DeLillo's fiction". ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa 29 (2008): 133-152.
"La ilegibilidad del ejemplo en Cervantes y Coover". In La Tropelía. Hacia 'El Coloquio de los Perros'. Ed. Julián Jiménez Heffernan. Artemisa: Madrid, 2008. 349-378.
""The Writer at the Far Margin": The Rhetorics of Artistic Ethics in Don Delillo's Novels". EJAS: European Journal of American Studies (2007).
"Instrumentos de la noche: "Macbeth" de Orson Welles". Sileno. Variaciones sobre arte y pensamiento 27 (2007): 19-34.
"Una Noche en el Bronx, o la Topografia de la Nostalgia en Don DeLillo". Quimera 272 (2006): 32-38.
"Abstract Structures and Connective Patterns". The Grove. Working Papers in English Studies 12 (2005): 171-186.
"Magia práctica: Cervantes y la narrativa norteamericana postmodernista". Cervantes y el mundo anglosajón. Eds. Bernd Dietz and Diego Martínez Torrón. Sial: Madrid, 2005. 211-240.
"El sistema y sus márgenes: La narrativa breve de Don DeLillo". El Cuento en Red 10 (2004).