Francisco Fuentes Antrás is a full-time Lecturer in the Department of English Philology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he teaches courses on English literature and cultural identity. In 2012 he graduated in English Philology and holds a master’s degree in Hispanic and Comparative Literature from University of Kent. In 2020 he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, obtaining the International Distinction award. He has been a professor in ESCP Business School, Universidad Europea de Madrid, ESNE Design School, and Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, teaching and coordinating a variety of courses ranging from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to literary theory.
As part of his doctoral degree, he completed a long-term research stay at University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he studied post-Apartheid literary production and collaborated in some seminars and courses at the School of African Studies and Modern Languages. He has published in various national and international specialized journals, such as Research in African Literatures (U.S.A), Forum of World Literature Studies (China), or Castilla. Estudios de Literatura (Spain), and he is interested in the study of English literature and world literature studies from an interdisciplinary and transversal perspective. More specifically, his current research focuses on the concepts of resistance, identity, immigration, racial issues, borders, and the transcultural connections in the twenty-first century short story in English.
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2022). “No Box for You to Mark on this Application: An Unsuccessful Dialogue between the Individual and the Administration in Gleyvis Coro Montanet’s ‘Odiar el verano’ and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘The American Embassy’”. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 62 (2), 1170-1186. DOI: 10.33171/dtcfjournal.2022.62.2.14
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2022). “Challenging the National Border System through Love in César Mba A. Abogo’s ‘The Thickness of the Night’ and Lien Carrazana’s ‘An Expatriate Waitress, anywhere in the World’”. Castilla. Estudios de Literatura (Universidad de Valladolid), vol.13, pp. 165-185. https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.13.2022.165-185
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2022). "Expandiendo los Límites del Estado Cubano: La Construcción de un Espacio Fronterizo en 'Una planta tropical en un invernadero de Madrid' de Lien Carrazana Lau". Boletín de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (BANLE), vol. 13, no.24.
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2021). “The Reconciliation of Opposites: Challenging Group Categorization and Stereotypes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘A Private Experience’ and César Mba A. Abogo’s ‘Hora de partir’”. Research in African Literatures, vol.52, no. 2, pp.68-85. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/850586.
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2021). “Material Objects as Promoters of a Resistant Subjectivity: The Creation of an Alternative Space in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Imitation’”. Forum For World Literatures, vol. 13, no.14, pp. 677-692. http://www.fwls.org/Download/Archives/981.html
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2020). "A Moving Target is Harder to Hit: Border-Crossing as a Resistance Weapon in Jackie Kay's 'The Smuggled Person's Tale'". Transnational Literature, vol.12. https://doi.org/10.33008/TNL.2020.01
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2020). “Narrating Their Paths: Fictional Writing as Political Resistance in Lien Carrazana’s “Grafomanía” and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Jumping Monkey Hills.” Portals. A Journal in Comparative Literature, vol.17.
Fuentes Antrás, F. (2019). “El Amor Interracial como Arma de Resistencia Política en el Relato Breve ‘Hora de Partir’ de César Mba A. Abogo.” Philobiblion: Revista de Literaturas Hispánicas, vol. 10, pp.33-48. https://doi.org/10.15366/philobiblion2019.10.002
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