Dr Javier Letran

Dr Javier Letran

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2969
Email
jl50@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 39
Location
United Colleges
Office hours
Wednesday 2-3, Friday 2-3

 

Research areas

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, Salvador Espriu, Luis García Montero or Felipe Benítez Reyes. His current projects include a reconstruction and re-evaluation of the eventually forbidden homage to Antonio Machado that was planned to take place in Baeza in 1966 under the title of 'Paseos con Antonio Machado', a study of the poetry of Miguel d’Ors, as well as the exploration of literary responses to neoliberalism in authors such as Juan Bonilla and Mercedes Cebrián. 

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 Post-War Spain.

Research topics: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature; 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish Poetry; Literature and Ideology; Democracy and the Arts; Literature and Neoliberalism; Literature and Ethics; Literature and Philosophy. 

Selected publications

  • Letran, J., 2025, In: Letras Hispanas. 21, 1, p. 146-147

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  • Open access
    Letran, J., 9 Sept 2024, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 101, 8, p. 767-795

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Letran, J., 4 Jul 2024, In: Boletín de la Real Academia Española. 104, 329, p. 251-293 43 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Letran, J., 2023, Homenaje a Trevor J. Dadson. Sanz Camañes et alii, P. (ed.). Ciudad Real: Diputación de Ciudad Real / Ayuntamiento de Villarrubia de los Ojos, p. 17-21 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Letran, J., 1 Jul 2021, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 98, 7, p. 712-713

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  • Letran, J., Jan 2020, Haré un poema de la pura nada: la intertextualidad en la poesía de Luis Alberto de Cuenca. Saez, A. J. & Sanchez Jimenez, A. (eds.). Seville: Renacimiento, p. 340-388 48 p. (Iluminaciones; vol. 139).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Letran, J., 2020, In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 97, 6, p. 1051-1055

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Letran, J., Feb 2020, The Objective.

    Research output: Other contribution

  • Letran, J. & Torres, I., 2019, Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson: Entre los Siglos de Oro y el siglo XXI. Letran, J. & Torres, I. (eds.). Woodbridge: Tamesis, p. 1-13

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Letran, J., Nov 2019, Studies on Spanish poetry in honour of Trevor J. Dadson: entre los Siglos de Oro y el siglo XXI. Letrán, J. & Torres, I. (eds.). Woodbridge: Tamesis, p. 195-212 18 p. (Colección Támesis. Serie A: Monografías ; vol. 388).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter