University of Córdoba

Head of the team

Paula Martín-Salván is Associate Professor at the University of Córdoba (Spain) where she teaches English and American Literature. She is head of the research team “Research in English and Related Literature”, funded by the regional government of Andalucía (HUM-682). Her research focuses on the representation of communities in fiction, trauma studies, and contemporary critical theory, with an emphasis on deconstruction and narratology. She is the author of 2 research monographs, 3 edited collections and 2 critical editions of classical literary works. Her recent research has been published in the co-edited volumes New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (Routledge, 2017), Secrecy and Community in Contemporary Fiction in English (Bloomsbury, 2021) and in articles published by the journals Critique and Journal of Narrative Theory. Her current research focuses on secrecy and democracy in contemporary fiction by Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Amy Waldman and Colson Whitehead.

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Publications

• “’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.
• “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.
• “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.
• 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.