Dr Juan Martinez Gil

Fitzwilliam College
  • Affiliated Lecturer
  • Batista i Roca Fellow, Fitzwilliam College
Dr Juan Martinez Gil

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About

Juan Martinez-Gil holds a degree in Hispanic Studies from the Universitat de València, a Master's degree in Teacher Training (focusing on Catalan and Spanish) from the Universitat Miguel Hernández, and a Master's degree in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities, with Distinction, from the Universitat de Barcelona. He was recently awarded his PhD at the Universitat Jaume I, on transgender representation during Spanish Transition in Catalan and Spanish literature and culture.

His research interests include Catalan, Spanish, and Spanish-American literature and culture from the perspectives of Gender and Queer Studies, as well as Literary Theory and Discourse Analysis. He has completed international stays in Mexico City (UNAM) and Michigan (UofM). He is currently a Batista i Roca Fellow, a position held by Fitzwilliam College and Institut Ramon Llull.

Research

Research interests: 

  • Catalan literature and culture
  • Hispanic literature and culture
  • Cultural Studies
  • LGBTQI and Queer Studies
  • Literary Theory and Comparative Literature
  • Foreign Language teaching

Published works: 

  • Martínez Gil, Juan (2024): “Representaciones literarias de la mujer transexual en la Transición española: entre el estereotipo, la metáfora política y la reivindicación”. Adolf Piquer Vidal and Diana Nastasescu (ed.), Estereotipos narrativos, Madrid: Verbum, pp. 108-127.
  • Martínez Gil, Juan and Martínez Català, Laura (2023): “Hacia un archivo de las vidas trans en la Edad de Plata española”. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, 22, ISSN: 2340-1869, pp. 395-422.
  • Martínez Gil, Juan (2022): “Trans characters in Valencian narrative in the 1970s and 1980s”. Adolf Piquer and Adéla Kot’atkova (eds.), Gender and Characters in Contemporary Catalan Literature, Peter Lang, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-631-88061-6, pp. 179-198.
  • Martínez Gil, Juan (2021): “Autobiografía imprevista. Gender y genre en la obra de Norma Mejía”. Estudios hispánicos, XXIX. ISSN: 2084-2546, pp. 95-103.
  • Martínez Gil, Juan (2020): “Divas, putas y otras reapropiaciones discursivas: Identidades trans en La virgen cabeza y Sirena Selena, vestida de pena”. Miguel Ángel Soriano, Ignacio Ballester Pardo and Ferran Riesgo (eds.), Formas múltiples de expresión de la rebeldía en la literatura hispánica: Aspectos estéticos, sociales, políticos y artísticos, Renacimiento, ISBN: 9788418387333, pp. 268-284.

Teaching and supervision

Teaching interests: 

  • Catalan literature and culture
  • Hispanic literature and culture
  • Cultural Studies
  • LGBTQI and Queer Studies
  • Catalan language
  • Spanish language