Dr Javier Letran, Lecturer
Contact Details
jl50@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462969
Office: Quad 39
Research and Teaching
Javier Letrán's research interests lie within the field of 20th and 21st Century Peninsular Spanish Literature, with a primary focus on poetry. He has published extensively on the work of the contemporary Spanish poet Luis Alberto de Cuenca, and has also written on authors such as Luis Cernuda, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Luis García Montero and Miguel d'Ors. He is currently editing a volume of essays on the relationship between the concept of identity (in its personal, literary, political and national dimensions) and contemporary Spanish poetry, and has also started a project about the historical and ideological dynamics of individual identity as represented throughout a series of poetic self-portraits dating from the end of the 19th century until the beginning of the 21st century.
He teaches on all the core undergraduate and postgraduate modules and offers specialised options in Post-1975 Peninsular Spanish Literature and The Art of Subversion in Francoist Spain.