Dr Rodrigo Lopez Martinez
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the School of Modern Languages. I previously studied Literature, with a focus on Literary Theory, at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), received a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester (UK), and worked in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Aberdeen (UK).
My current research studies representations of psychotherapy and mental health in Latin American cinema and TV. With an interdisciplinary approach to Screen Studies and Medical Humanities, I examine how cultural perceptions of mental health illnesses and treatment have an influence on—and are influenced by—the broader social organization of life.
I am also interested in the links between psychoanalysis and literature in Argentina and Spain. Through the lens of Transatlantic Studies, I focus on authors and periodicals that transmitted psychoanalytic ideas from Argentina into Spain and used them as a vehicle for articulating debates about democratic culture and driving literary experimentation.
My monograph The Avant-Garde after Bolaño will be published by Liverpool University Press. It examines how the paradigmatic impact of the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño on Latin American literature has reshaped and revived the idea of the avant-garde in contemporary fiction.
I have also published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.
Research Interests
My current research interests include:
- Latin American and Iberian cinema and TV
- 20th- and 21st-century literature
- Avant-garde art in Latin America
- Psychoanalysis and Medical Humanities
- Transatlantic Studies
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2024 | Martínez, R.L. (2024) 'Intellectuals and democracy: the Argentine magazine Contorno (1953–1959)'. JILAR: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | López Martínez, R. (2023) 'An Author without a Nation: Fictional Renderings of Leopoldo Lugones in Argentine Literature'. Latin American Research Review, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | López Martínez, R. (2022) 'The Avant-Garde Is Dead, Long Live the Avant-Garde: Glauber Rocha’s Rereading of Brazilian Modernismo and Di Cavalcanti'. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 31 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | López Martínez, R. (2022) 'Essays in (Transatlantic) Transition: The Argentine Journal Sitio (1981–1987) and Alberto Cardín's Como si nada (1981)'. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | López Martínez, R. (2022) 'Bolañesque Affects: Communities of Poets in Diego Trelles Paz’s El círculo de los escritores asesinos and Alejandro Zambra’s Poeta chileno'. Romance Studies, 40 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | López Martínez, R. (2022) 'Alberto Cardín, yo mismo: transatlantic essayism and psychoanalysis in Como si nada (1981)'. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 23 . [Link] [DOI] |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2022) 'Revista Sitio (1981-87): La apelación al ensayo en la transición democrática argentina' Artes del Ensayo: Revista Internacional sobre el Ensayo Hispánico, 4 :167-183. [Link] https://doi.org/10.31009/ae.i22.08 [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2020) 'El vicio de criticar: Teoría, crítica y polémica según Alberto Cardín' Kamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 16 :493-519. [Link] https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.16.17790 [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2019) 'Glauber antropófago: Mal de archivo, del manifiesto Pau-Brasil a Di-Glauber' Zama: Revista del Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 11 (11) :59-68. [Link] https://doi.org/10.34096/zama.a11.n11.7342 [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2018) 'Un final feliz: La crítica literaria, entre el fin del análisis y el fin de la literatura' RECIAL: Revista del Ciffyh Área Letras, 9 (14) . [Link] https://doi.org/10.53971/2718.658x.v9.n14.22862 [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2018) '2666: El post-apocalipsis según Roberto Bolaño' Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 6 (10) :25-42. [Link] https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2018.307 [Full-Text] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2019) Sobre Qwertyuiop (Ensayos 4), de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio. Buenos Aires: [Book Review] [Link] | |
2017 | Rodrigo López Martínez (2017) La Escuela Neolacaniana de Buenos Aires, de Ricardo Strafacce. Buenos Aires: [Book Review] [Link] [Full-Text] |