Secretary of Department

Name:	Leonor María Martínez Serrano
Position:	Associate Professor
Research group:	Research in English and Related Literature, HUM-682
Telephone:	+ 34 957 21 84 03
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Address:	Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Plaza del Cardenal Salazar, 3 14071 Córdoba Despacho junto a Aula XV, primera planta

Leonor María Martínez Serrano is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Philology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Córdoba, where she pursued her doctoral studies and gained a PhD in Canadian Literature. She teaches courses on literatures in English, EFL methodology, academic writing, digital humanities and CLIL for content teachers at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is a member of the research group “Research in English and Related Literature” (HUM-682), a research team devoted to the study of literary texts written in English from the early modern period to the present. Her research interests include literatures in English, with a special focus on Canadian Literature, American Literature, High Modernism and Ecocriticism, First Nations and Oral Literatures, Literary Translation, CLIL and bilingual education. More specifically, her research focuses on modern and contemporary Canadian and American poetry, as well as on such Modernist authors as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. She has presented papers at international conferences and published articles on her research interests in scholarly journals. In addition, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia (Canada), where she has done research on Canadian poetry and has made use of the Rare Books and Special Collections at the university libraries, as well as at the University of the West of Scotland (UK), the University of Białystok (Poland), and the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany).

Link: https://www.uco.es/writsofempire/team-members/members/martinez-serrano-leonor-maria.php

Main publications

• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2023, “‘All Nature Teems with Life’: Anthropogenic Wastelands in Robert Hass’s Ecopoetics.” RSA Journal. Rivista di Studi Americani, vol. 34, pp. 35‒53.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2022, “Reading the More-Than-Human World in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 85, pp. 133‒151.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2022, “Poetry in Pandemic Times: Mourning Collective Vulnerability in Sue Goyette’s Solstice 2022. An Archive.” REN – Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 26, 93‒121.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2021,Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst. Literary Theory and Culture Series, Vol. 58. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M. & Gámez Fernández, C.M. (eds.), 2021,Modern Ecopoetry. Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2020, “The Multitudinous Sparseness of Space in Harry Thurston’sBroken Vessel.”Rocznicki Humanistyczne (Annals of Arts. Anglica), vol. 11, pp. 161‒179.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2020, “The Fragility of a More-Than-Human World: Ecological Awareness in the Poetry of Robert Bringhurst.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 56, issue 2, pp. 503‒516.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2019, “Polyphony and Ecology: The Green World in Robert Bringhurst’s New World Suite No. 3.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 55, issue 2, pp. 155‒168.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2018, “The Audible Light of Words: Mark Strand on Poetry and the Self.” ES Review: Spanish Journal of English Studies, vol. 39, pp. 255‒279.
• Martínez Serrano, L.M., 2017, “A Fragment of the World, a Piece of Human Consciousness: Tim Bowling’s The Bone Sharps (2007) and The Tinsmith (2012).” Journal of English Studies, vol. XV, pp. 135‒154.