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Jesús Peris Llorca
Jesús Peris Llorca holds a Ph.D. of hispanic philology at the Universitat de València and is associate professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universitat de València. He is the author of the books La construcción de un imaginario nacional (Tirant lo Blanch, 1997) and Gauchos en el mundo del ochenta (Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2003) and one of the coordinators of the collective volume Literatura e imaginarios sociales (Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, 2004). He also published El vuelo de Altazor: Lecturas latinoamericanas contemporánea (Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2013), a handbook aimed for international students of Latin American literature. His original research area was the role of literature in the configuration and dissemination in a society of an image of the countryside and the national tradition as an emblem of nationality in Argentina (1880–1930). His current lines of research include popular and traditional literature and theatre in Valencia, the ideological and identity role of literature and the emergence of new author figures in mass literature.
Contact: Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Departament de Filologia Espanyola, Universitat de València, 32 Blasco Ibáñez Avenue, 46010 Valencia, Spain.