Staff Profile
Dr Jorge Catala-Carrasco
Head of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Telephone: Tel: (+44) 0191 208 7455
- Address: Office 5.33
School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Background
I am from Valencia (Spain) and I have been living in the UK since 2007. I joined Newcastle University in 2010 after completing my PhD at The University of Nottingham. I also hold an MA in Hispanic Studies by the University of Georgia (USA).
I am currently Head of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. I am also external examiner for Spanish Studies at the University of Stirling and for Latin American Studies at Queen Mary University.
Research
I am a Hispanic cultural studies specialist who focuses on contemporary Spanish and Latin American cultural production from the 20th century through the 21st century. Trained as a literary scholar, I have complemented my early philological education with a visual culture formation on graphic narrative, memory studies, intermediality and the analysis of periods of crisis. In my first monograph, Vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en crisis, I studied the development of avant-garde graphic humour in Spain and Cuba during two critical periods, the Spanish Civil War and the early years of the Cuban Revolution. My interest in comics led to a co-edited volume titled Comics and Memory in Latin America (Pittsburgh, 2017), published also in Spanish in 2019 by Cátedra. My latest publication is the co-edited volume Multimodalidad e intermedialidad. Mestizajes en la narración gráfica contemporánea ibérica y latinoamericana (Universidad de León, 2022). I am a co-investigator in the international research project (COST-EU funded) entitled iCOn-MICS – Investigation on comics and graphic novels in the iberian cultural area (hypotheses.org)
I have also studied exile through the lens of Chilean-Spanish playwright José Ricardo Morales. In 2015 I co-authored the documentary José Ricardo Morales. Escrito en el agua (Malvalanda). Jose Ricardo Morales | Malvalanda
My current project is a monograph in which I examine the notion of euphoria in relation to comics and the neoliberal rationality in Spain.
PhD Supervision
PhD theses supervised to completion:
- (2018) Felix Lossio (FT): The Construction of Latin America as a Brand in Peru and Cuba. Co-supervised with Dr. Patricia Oliart.
- (2021) Katie Salmon (FT). Crisis and Mental Health in Contemporary Chilean and Spanish Culture. Co-supervised with Dr. Philippa Page and Dr. Angela Woods.
- (2023) Evie Hill (FT). Designs for Dissensus: Political Posters, Africa and the Tricontinental Movement. Co-supervised with Dr. Matt Davies and Dr. Matt Benwell.
Current PhD projects:
- (Year 5) Lydia Wysocki PhD Education (PT). British Values in Contemporary Comics. Co-supervised with Dr. Heather Smith and Prof. Anoop Nayak.
Research funding:
2023 - £2,510 - QS Funding for Social Justice and Visual Culture exhibition.
2023 - 2,300 euros - Fellowship Giner de los Ríos for an invited research stay at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain).
2020-2024 - COST Action (Horizon 2020). iCOnMICs. Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels in the Iberian Cultural Area. Co-investigator and UK representative. PI. Prof. Viviane Alary (Univ. Clermont Auvergne).
2019- NISS, £3,085 (Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal) for the Research & Comics Seminar Series
2018 - HISPANEX, 8,770 euros (Ministry of Culture in Spain) for the photography exhibition RENEWAL by NOPHOTO.
2018 - NISR, £4,500 (Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal) for the photography exhibition RENEWAL by NOPHOTO.
2016 - Institute for Latin American Studies (London) £1,800 (in collaboration with Dr. Raquel Ribeiro at the University of Edinburgh) for the seminar series “After the thaw. Cultural approaches to research on Cuba.”
2015 - Marie Curie-RISE (Horizon 2020), 1 044 000 euros for the research project Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Renewal (CRIC). http://www.culturalnarratives.co.uk. I was Co-PI with Patricia Oliart for the CRIC project (2015-2018), involving 63 researchers from 8 institutions in 6 countries in Europe and Latin America. http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?artid=47656
2015 - NISR, £1,000 (Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal) for the documentary José Ricardo Morales. Escrito en el agua.
2013 Faculty Research Fund £2,446 (Research trip to Cuba, July-August 2013)
2012 HaSS Faculty Futures Grant £500
2011 Santander Travel Scheme £1,000 (Research trip to Chile - April 2011).
2009 SLAS Postgraduate Travel Grant £600 (Research trip to Cuba, March – April 2009).
2004 Tinker Grant. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies $1,200 (research trip to Peru).
Teaching
I teach a range of modules across all stages. I am module leader for SPA1019 Introduction to the History, Culture and Society of the Iberian Peninsula (stage 1) and SPA4005 Cultura Popular en España y Cuba (stage 4). I also contribute to the module SPA2025 Representaciones de Revolución, Dictadura y Democracia en España y América Latina (stage 2) and SPA4081 Advanced Spanish Writing.
Publications
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Articles
- Catalá J, Martínez C. La imaginación ecológica en el cómic español. Cuco, Cuadernos de Cómic 2021, 17, 18-37.
- Catalá J, Vich V. Boom and Bust of Euphoric Narratives: Peruvian Football and the Neoliberal Mentality. Soccer and Society 2021, 23(6), 560-573.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Modernidad y representación afrocubana en revistas ilustradas de 1915 a 1940 en Cuba. Revista Iberoamericana 2019, LXXXV(267), 543-565.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Neoliberal expulsions, crisis and graphic reportage in Spanish comics. Romance Quarterly 2017, 64(4), 172-184.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL, de la Fuente M, Valdivia P. Culture, crisis, and renewal: Introduction, Part I. Romance Quarterly 2017, 64(3), 107-112.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Cómics durante la Guerra Civil Española. Entre la propaganda y el humor de vanguardia. Romance Quarterly 2015, 62(4), 212-228.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Tono y Martínez de León: Vanguardia y costumbrismo en la prensa gráfica (1920-1939). Andalucía en la Historia 2014, (43), 74-79.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. Crisis y su tratamiento en la obra de José Ricardo Morales. Laberintos: revista de estudios sobre los exilios culturales españoles 2014, 16, 249-263.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Lenguaje y humor en la obra de José Ricardo Morales. Mapocho. Revista de humanidades 2013, (74), 65-85.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. La transgresión de la tradición: La noche es virgen (1997) de Jaime Bayly. TONOS: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Filológicos 2012, 23.
- Catalá Carrasco J. From suspicion to recognition? 50 years of comics in Cuba. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia 2011, 20(2), 139-160.
- Catala-Carrasco J. Cuban Humour Magazines and Comics During the Special Period: An Overview. International Journal of Comic Art 2011, 13(1), 208-234.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. La alteridad sexual en Las dos caras del deseo (1994) de Carmen Ollé. Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 2009, 38(1).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. La historieta 13, Rue del Percebe en la clase de E/LE. Foro de Profesores de E/LE, IV 2009.
- Elvy JC, Catala-Carrasco JL [trans.]. Elpidio Valdés. Un espejo de nacionalismo, identidad y memoria histórica en Cuba. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sobre la Historieta 2008, 8(30).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. El humor gráfico revolucionario en Cuba. El camino hacia un arte militante. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sobre la Historieta 2008, 8(29).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Eclecticismo y diversidad en Los mares del Sur: Un texto abierto a varios niveles de lectura. Espéculo 2008, (37).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Costumbrismo and Cubanity in Rafael Fornés. International Journal of Comic Art 2008, 10(2), 495-518.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. “Utilidades prácticas de la historieta en las clases de español como lengua extranjera”. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sobre la Historieta 2008, 8(31).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. El cómic en la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. Foro de Profesores de E/LE, III 2007, 23-32.
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Authored Book
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Vanguardia y Humorismo Gráfico en Crisis: La Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) y la Revolución Cubana (1959-1961). Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis ; Boydell & Brewer, 2015.
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Book Chapters
- Catalá J, Martinez C. Environmental Politics, Ecological Thought, and Spanish Comics. In: Prádanos LI, ed. A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2023, pp.231-243.
- Catalá J. Dystopia and Multimodality in Spanish Comics. Hoy es un buen día para morir by Colo. In: Xavier Dapena and Joanne Britland, ed. The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative. London: Routledge, 2023, pp.62-84.
- Catalá J, Scorer J. Comics, Cartoons, Graphic Novels. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. Exilio y memoria en la nueva novela gráfica española: Los surcos del azar (2013). In: Pablo Valdivia, Yolanda Rodríguez, ed. Españoles en Europa: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna hasta nuestros días. Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp.155-170.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. Raising the Cuban Flag: Comics, Collective Memory and the Spanish-Cuban-American War (1898). In: Catalá-Carrasco, JL; Drinot, P; Scorer, J, ed. Comics and Memory in Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, pp.33-58.
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Crisis y cultura en un orden neoliberal. In: Del Valle Rojas C; Silva Echeto V, ed. Crisis, comunicación y crítica política. Quito: CIESPAL, 2017, pp.11-17.
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Edited Books
- Catalá J, Mitaine B, Quaianni Manuzzato LM, Trabado JM, ed. Multimodalidad e intermedialidad: Mestizajes en la narración gráfica contemporánea ibérica y latinoamericana. León: Universidad de León, 2022.
- Catala J, Saez-Adana F, ed. Latin @ Comics in the United States [Special issue of Camino Real]. Alcala de Henares (Spain): Instituto Franklin, 2021.
- Catalá-Carrasco J, Drinot P, Scorer J, ed. Cómics y memoria en América Latina. Madrid, Spain: Cátedra, 2019.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL, Drinot P, Scorer J, ed. Comics and Memory in Latin America. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL, Ferres M, Uribe A, ed. Sketching Newcastle: a journey through crisis, culture and renewal. Bilbao: Astiberri, 2016.
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Editorial
- Catala-Carrasco JL, de la Fuente M, Valdivia P. Culture, crisis, and renewal: Introduction, Part 2. Romance Quarterly 2017, 64(4), 161-162.
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Reviews
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Review of Antonio Míguez Macho, The Genocidal Genealogy of Francoism: Violence, Memory and Impunity. Brighton/Chicago/Toronto: Sussex Academic Press. 2016. 154 pp. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2018, 95(7).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Schmidt, Samuel (2014). Seriously Funny. Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance. Trans. Adam Schimdt. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2016, 35(3), 401-402.
- Catala-Carrasco J. Kantaris, Geoffrey and O’Bryen, Rory (2013)Latin American Popular Culture: Politics,Media, Affect. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2016, 35(1), 119-120.
- Catala-Carrasco J. Valdivia, Pablo (2014). José Ricardo Morales. De mar a mar. Teatro transnacional, exilio y periferia. EU-topías. Revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos 2015, 10, 183-185.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. Hulme, Peter (2011). Cuba’s Wild East. A Literary Geography of Oriente. Liverpool University Press (Liverpool). Bulletin of Latin American Research 2014, 33(2), 250-251.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. Pérez Firmat, G., 'The Havana Habit', Yale University Press: New Haven, 2010 [Book review]. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2013, 32(3), 361-362.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL, Valdivia P. José Ricardo Morales. Obras completas. Teatro 1. Aznar Soler, Manuel (ed.). Institució Alfons el Magnànim, Diputación de Valencia, 2009. 1471 pp. Laberintos: revista de estudios sobre los exilios culturales españoles 2013, 15, 416-420.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL, Valdivia P. José Ricardo Morales. Obras completas. Ensayos 2. Aznar Soler, Manuel (ed.). Institució Alfons el Magnànim, Diputación de Valencia, 2012. 1316 pp. Laberintos: Revista de estudios sobre los exilios culturales españoles 2013, 15, 305-309.
- Catalá-Carrasco JL. Fernández L'Hoeste, H; Poblete, J (2009). Redrawing the Nation. National Identity in Latin/o American Comics. Vida Hispánica 2013, (47).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. España, Año Cero. La Construcción Simbólica del Franquismo (Zira Box). Vida Hispánica 2011, (43).
- Catala-Carrasco JL. Historias Mínimas. Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 2003, 32(2).
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Scholarly Edition
- Catalá J, Mitaine B, Quaianni Manuzzato LM, Trabado Cabado JM. Special Issue. Intermediality: Genetics and Enrichment of the Language of Comics. European Comic Art 2023. Berghahn Books.