Team
Santiago Pérez Isasi
FCT Research Fellow
Biographical note
Santiago Pérez Isasi (BA and PhD in Spanish Philology from the Universidade de Deusto) is an FCT funded researcher associated with the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas at the FLUL. His areas of interest include Iberian Studies, literary history, national identities and Digital Humanities. He is co-editor of the volumes Looking at Iberia. A Comparative European Perspective (Peter Lang, 2013) and Los límites del Hispanismo (Peter Lang, 2017). He is also the PI of the exploratory project Mapa Digital das Relações literárias ibéricas (1870-1930). He is a member of the group DIIA (Diálogos Ibéricos e Ibero-Americanos) and co-coordinator of the project IstReS (Iberian Studies Reference Site) with Esther Gimeno Ugalde (Boston College).
Read moreMain areas of research
- Iberian Studies;
- Literary history;
- National identity;
- Basque literature;
- Digital Humanities.
Selected publications
- Santiago Pérez Isasi et al. (eds.) (2017): Los límites del Hispanismo. Nuevos métodos, nuevas fronteras, nuevos géneros. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017.
- Pérez Isasi, Santiago (2016): “A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula?”, in Edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega (eds.), A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, John Benjamins, vol II, 653-663.
- Santiago Pérez Isasi (2015): “La literatura vasca en el contexto de los Estudios Ibéricos”, en Relaciones culturales ibéricas. Número monográfico de 1616 – Anuario de Literatura Comparada, 4,107-126.
- Pérez Isasi, Santiago (2014): “Literatura, iberismo(s), nacionalismo(s): Apuntes para una historia del iberismo cultural (1868-1936)”, Revista 452ºF. Número monográfico: Relaciones literarias ibéricas, 11, 64-79. More info.
- Pérez Isasi, Santiago (2014): “Literaturas nacionales, literatura supranacionales: el lugar de los Estudios Ibéricos”, Interlitteraria, Univ. Tardu, Estónia, 19/1, pp. 22–32.
- Pérez Isasi, Santiago (2013): “Entre dos tierras y en tierra de nadie: El reflejo del multilingüismo peninsular en la historiografía literaria ibérica”, Revista de Filología Románica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Vol 30, No 1, 2013, pp. 137-148. More info.
- Pérez Isasi, Santiago (2013): “The limits of Spanishness in 19th-century literary history”, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool, Vol. 90, 2, 2013, pp. 167-188.
- Santiago Pérez Isasi & Ângela Fernades (eds.): Looking at Iberia. A Comparative European Perspective. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.
CEC Projects
DIIA – Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues / LOCUS
Catarina Sequeira Rodrigues
FCT researcher
Biographical note
Catarina Rodrigues (BA and MA in Landscape Architecture from the Instituto Superior de Agronomía at the University of Lisbon) is research fellow for the exploratory project Mapa Digital das Relações Literárias Ibéricas (1870-1930), organized within the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas at the FLUL, and financed by the FCT (IF/00838/2014). She also participated in the project PPESTS – História Contemporânea das pragas agrícolas no Sul da Europa, organized in the Instituto de História Contemporânea – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and funded by the FCT (IF/00222/2013/CP1166/CT0001).
Juan Álvarez Umbarila
PhD student
Biographical note
Juan Álvarez Umbarila is a PhD student at the Center for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, where he carries out a dissertation research on the “Public Geographies of Reading Today.” He also holds a BA degree in Literature from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, 2013) and an MA Degree in Writing, Editing and Mediating from the University of Groningen (2017). His areas of specialization are Textual Studies, Book mediations, Cultural Studies and critique, and Latin American Literature.