Dr. Esther Sánchez-Pardo González is Professor of English Studies. She studied at Universidad Complutense (B.A. and Ph.D. English; Magister Psychoanalytic Theory), Universidad Nebrija (M.A. Linguistics Applied to Spanish as a Foreign Language), University of Wisconsin-Madison, and The School of Criticism and Theory (Dartmouth College first, then Cornell University). She completed research stays at University of Toronto and University of British Columbia, and a sabbatical year at University of California-Berkeley.
Her research interests focus on 20th-century literatures in English, Modernist studies, poetry and poetics, gender, psychoanalysis, memory studies, comparative literature, critical and cultural theory.
Central to her research interests is the problem of representation in literature and the visual arts –especially in painting– from 1890 until today. She is also interested in the contemporary debates on: the transformations of the individual and kinship, trauma (Trauma Studies), ethics and alterity, the question of class, exile and diaspora, globalization. In recent years, my research revolves around the avant-gardes and modernism, in all its richness and diversity, from “high modernism” up to its non-hegemonic versions (peripheral, saphic, non-western modernisms). Psychoanalysis, in itself a modernist phenomenon “par excellence,” has occupied an important part of her work, starting with Freud and, from the period that opened with the “Controversial Discussions,” the British school of object relations (Melanie Klein, W. Bion, H. Segal). Main issues in this field have been: symbolization, fantasy (unconscious, and its relations with fantasy in literature), melancholia, fetish, masquerade, psychosis, identification and empathy. She has recently been at work on “memory studies,” focusing on the poetry of the Auden group (esp. Auden and Spender) and cultural memory around issues such as the obliteration of the fallen from official history and the work of mourning. Finally, she has an overriding interest in the potential for social change implicit in literature as a “pedagogic” discipline, aimed towards the achieving of peace and the overseeing of respect for human rights in the world.
She serves in the Editorial Board of Feminist Modern Studies (Taylor & Francis) and Parapraxis (The Psychosocial Foundation). She is a member of Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, Modernist Studies Association, and European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies.
La Dra. Esther Sánchez-Pardo González es Catedrática de Literaturas en Lengua Inglesa y Teoría Literaria. Se formó en la Universidad Complutense (Licenciada en Filología Inglesa. Doctorado en Filología Inglesa; Magister en Teoría Psicoanalítica), Universidad Nebrija (Máster en Lingüística Aplicada al Español como Lengua Extranjera), y University of Wisconsin-Madison, así como en la School of Criticism and Theory (Dartmouth College primero, Cornell University después). Ha realizado estancias de investigación en University of Toronto y University of British Columbia, y un año sabático en University of California-Berkeley.
Sus líneas de investigación prioritarias comprenden los Estudios Modernistas, la poesía y poéticas de los s. XX y XXI, Estudios de Género, Psicoanálisis (Freud y Relaciones Objetales), Literatura Comparada y Teoría Crítica.
A lo largo de su trayectoria se ha ocupado de la problemática de la representación en literatura y artes visuales desde 1890 a nuestros días. Le interesan especialmente los debates contemporáneos sobre las transformaciones del individuo y el sistema del parentesco, los estudios sobre el Trauma, las cuestiones de ética y alteridad, la centralidad de la idea de “Clase” (social), así como temas como el exilio, la diáspora y la problemática de la globalización. Le interesa también el estudio de las vanguardias y el modernismo en toda su riqueza y diversidad, desde el modernismo más establecido a sus versiones no hegemónicas (periférico, sáfico, oriental…) El psicoanálisis, discurso modernista por antonomasia, ha sido uno de sus objetos de estudio destacados, desde la obra de Freud al periodo de las “Controversial Discussions”, y el desarrollo y expansión de la escuela inglesa de relaciones objetales (Melanie Klein, W. Bion, H. Segal). Temas prioritarios de trabajo han sido: la simbolización, fantasía, melancolía, fetiche, mascarada, psicosis, identificación y empatía. Recientemente ha trabajado en memoria histórica, sobre todo, en el llamado “Auden group” y en cuestiones relativas a la invisibilización de los caídos de la historia oficial y el trabajo del duelo. Entiende que el potencial para el cambio social que tiene la literatura la convierte en una disciplina pedagógica en pro de una cultura de la paz y de la salvaguarda de los derechos humanos en el mundo.
Actualmente es editora en Feminist Modern Studies (Taylor & Francis) y Parapraxis (The Psychosocial Foundation). Pertenece a Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, Modernist Studies Association, y European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / PUBLICACIONES SELECCIONADAS
Books / Libros
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2003).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. La Última Generación. Prosa y Poesía, by Cherríe Moraga. Traducción, Introducción y Ed. Anotada. Madrid: horas y HORAS (2007).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. Antología Poética, Mina Loy. Traducción y Ed. Crítica. Madrid: Huerga & Fierro (2009).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. & Reboul, A-M. (eds). L’écriture désirante: Marguerite Duras. Paris: L’Harmattan (2016).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E., Burillo, R. & Porras Sánchez, M. (eds). Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries: On Sappho's Website. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. (ed.). Poéticas comparadas de mujeres: Las poetas y la transformación del discurso poético en los siglos XX y XXI. Colección Foro 64. Leiden: Brill (2022).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. & Porras Sánchez, M. (eds). Myth and Environmentalism: Arts of Resilience for A Damaged Planet. London: Routledge (2023).
Translations / Traducciones
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. (Traducción). Sigmund Freud-Ernest Jones: Correspondencia completa 1908-1939. Madrid: Síntesis (2001).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles / Artículos en revistas con revisión por pares
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Decline and Regeneration in Modernist (Hi)stories, or How to Be Modern in the Tropics”. EJES (European Journal of English Studies). 12.3: 291–305. Special Issue: “Reading the Modernist Past”. Ed. Helen Dennis & Hélène Aji (2008).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “The Lure of the Object in Henry James's Fictions of Thwarted Desire: Reflections on the Libidinal and Social Poetics of Literary Forms.” Atlantis 30.2: 27-41 (Dec. 2008).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Avatars of the Speaking ‘I’: Denise Riley´s Meditations on Poetry and Community.” RCEI (Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses). Special Issue: “Postmodernitiy and English Poetry”. Ed. M. del Pino Montesdeoca. 60: 47-60 (April 2010).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Adrift on the black Mediterranean diaspora: African migrant writing in Spain,” Sandra Ponzanesi and Bolette Blaagaard eds. Special issue “Postcolonial Europe.” Social Identities 17.1: 105-120 (Jan 2011).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Why Memorialize? Stephen Spender’s Aesthetics of Remembrance in Vienna” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 63: 39-52 (Nov 2011).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Writing War: Owen, Spender, poetic forms and concerns for a world in turmoil.” Nordic Journal of English Studies 12.2: 103-124 (2013).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Surreal Niedecker: Avant-Garde Poetics on the Periphery,” International Papers on English Studies. 1(2013): 11-24. ISSN: 2341-0000.
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Razón colonial, imaginario de-colonial y feminismos: Nancy Morejón, Jamaica Kincaid, y la construcción de la identidad cultural en la poética del Caribe.” Investigaciones Feministas 6: 172-195 (2015).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Outshining Aura: How Modernist film refashions the Myth of Don Quixote,” Open Cultural Studies. De Gruyter (2017), 1(1): 172-182. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0016.
- Martínez, M.A. & Sánchez-Pardo. “Past storyworld possible selves and the autobiographical reformulation of Dante’s myth in Lorine Niedecker’s “Switchboard Girl.” J. Literary Semantics. 48 (1): 41-58, 2019.
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Photopoetics: Sisyphus Outdone, the Apostrophal Subject and the Elusive Image.” Open Cultural Studies.De Gruyter (2020), 4(1): 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0008.
Book Chapters / Capítulos de Libro
- “Questioning Historiography: Michel De Certeau and the Fictions of History.” In Rubén Valdés & Carla Rodríguez eds. Culture and Power: The Plots of History in Performance. pp. 239–245. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (2008).
- “Bruno Schulz and Djuna Barnes: Border–Crossing and Artistic Practice”. In (Un)masking Schulz: New Combinations, further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations. Dieter de Bruyn, Kris Van Heuckelom (eds). pp. 267-288. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2009).
- “Carpentier’s Marvellous Real: Modernity and Its Discontents in the Tropics” In Europa? Europa! Peter Nicholls & Sascha Bru (eds). 1st Volume in Series Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies. pp. 446-463. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2010).
- “The Resistance to Look”. In Visual Cultures. James Elkins (ed.). London: Intellect Books. pp. 97-109. (2010).
- “Duende and Modernism: Crane’s and García Lorca’s Variations on Rhythm and Sound”. In The Popular Avant-garde. Ed. Renée Silverman. pp. 95-120. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2010).
- “Henry James’ Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique.” In Henry James and Europe: Heritage and Transfer. Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding, Dennis Tredy, eds. pp. 39-50. Cambridge: Open Book (2011).
- “On Poetry, War and Trauma: A Preliminary Discussion on Memory, Transformation and Audiences.” In At a Time of Crisis: English and American Studies in Spain. Sara Martín Alegre et al., eds. pp. 182-87. Bellaterra: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2012).
- “Between East and West: Transculturation, Mobility and Identities-in-Transit in Poetries for a Global Europe.” In Current Issues in English Studies. A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Prof. Francisco Gutiérrez Díez. Rafael Monroy, ed. pp. 239-261. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia (2012).
- “(Post)Modernist Tales from the Couch.” In Modernism and Postmodernism in the English Short Story. Eds. Jorge Sacido. pp. 151-74. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi (2012).
- “Kinaesthetic Modernism?: Rhythms, Bodies and Motion across the Great Divide.” In The Great Divide? High & Low Culture in the Avant-Garde and Modernism. Sascha Bru et al eds. European Avant-garde and Modernist Studies Series. Vol. 2. pp. 57-68. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter (2012).
- “Critical Intruders: Unraveling Race and Mystery in “Intruder in the Dust.” Ann Abadie, Annette Trefzer, Ann J. Abadie, eds. Faulkner and Mystery: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2009. pp. 123-138. Jackson, Miss.: U. Press of Mississippi (2014).
- “Vicente Huidobro and William Carlos Williams: Hemispheric Connections, or How to Create Things with Words.” Günther Berghaus, ed. International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, vol. 7. pp. 182-205 (2017).
- “‘It’s a Hell of A Responsibility to Be Yourself’ .Troubling the Personal and the Political in Feminist Pedagogy,” Beatriz Revelles, Ana González, eds. Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis. pp 64-80. London: Routledge (2017).
- “The Visual Drive,” Harri Veivo, J.P. Montier et al. eds. Beyond Given Knowledge. European Avant-garde and Modernist Studies Series. Vol. 5. pp. 77-94. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter (2018).
- “El mito de América en la poética transnacional de Rubén Darío y William Carlos Williams. En Rocío Oviedo, Jesús Cano, Cristina Bravo, eds. Un universo de universos y una fuente de canciones. pp. 308-324. Madrid: Arbor (2019).
- “Progressive Intelligentsia: The Young American Critics, Utopianism, and the Spirit of Dissent.” In Laura Scuriatti, ed. Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds. Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community. pp. 123-147. Oxford: Peter Lang (2019).
- “The Political is Personal: Juliana Spahr’s Political Ecology,” in Martínez, L. & Gámez-Fernández, C. Eds. Modern Ecopoetry. Reading the Palimpsest of the more-than-human World. pp. 111-130. Leiden: Brill (2021).
- “Between Peripherality and ‘Supernationalism’, or How Modernist was the Literature of the Spanish-speaking nations at the turn of the 20th century”, in Lyuckanov, Jordan et al. eds. Heteroeuropeanisations. pp. 335-359. Venice: Ca’Foscari (2021).
- “De Madrid a Libre te quiero: los documentales de Martín Patino y el mito de la acción colectiva”, in Rodriguez, Marie-Soledad and Claire Decobert, eds. Construction et déconstruction du politique par les médias européens depuis 1975 (Espagne, France, Royaume-Uni). pp. 209-220. Berlin: Peter Lang (2022).
- "Myth and Environmentalism: Entanglements, Synergies, Openings," in Sánchez-Pardo, E. & M. Porras-Sánchez, eds. Myth and Environmentalism. Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet. pp. 1-36. London: Routledge (2023).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. & Esther Lezra "’Giant by thine own Nature’: Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antonio Parreiras's Mythical Brazilian Landscapes through a Transatlantic Gaze," in Sánchez-Pardo, E. & M. Porras-Sánchez, eds. Myth and Environmentalism. Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet, pp. 153-179. London: Routledge (2023).
- Sánchez-Pardo, E. “Performing Ceremony: Healing, Empowering, Re-Writing History in Alexis P. Gumbs’ Dub (2020),” in M. Fernández-Santiago & C.M. Gámez-Fernández. Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, pp. 33-47. London: Routledge (2023).
RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN RECIENTES
- Título del proyecto: “Una poesía de la obsesión evocativa: Stephen Spender (1930-1970) y la tensión entre el yo lirico y la memoria colectiva”
Entidad financiadora: MICINN FFI2009-13454. Duración, 2009-2012 (3 años). IP: Esther Sánchez-Pardo
- Título del proyecto: “Mitocrítica Cultural”
Entidad financiadora: Comunidad de Madrid. H2015/HUM-3362. Entidades participantes: U. Complutense, U. Alcalá, U. Autónoma de Madrid, U. F. de Vitoria, CSIC, U. Comillas. Duración, 2016-2018 (3 años). Coord. & IP general: José M. Losada. Responsabilidad: IP de uno de los 9 grupos integrantes.
- Título del proyecto: “Estrategias de Innovación en Mitocrítica Cultural”
Entidad financiadora: Comunidad de Madrid. H2019/HUM/5714. Entidades participantes: U. Complutense, U. Alcalá, U. Autónoma de Madrid, U. F. de Vitoria, CSIC, U. Comillas. Duración, 2019-2022. Coord. & IP general: José M. Losada. Responsabilidad: IP de uno de los grupos integrantes.
RESEARCH GROUP / GRUPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN
- Responsible for Grupo de Investigación UCM 941711, “Poéticas y Textualidades Emergentes, s. XIX-XXI”, formerly “Poéticas en Lengua Inglesa”. Since 2009. /Responsable del Grupo de Investigación UCM 941711, “Poéticas y Textualidades Emergentes, s. XIX-XXI”, previamente “Poéticas en Lengua Inglesa”. Desde 2009.