Ph.D., Paris IV - Sorbonne University (2011) Eloi Grasset is an Associate Professor of in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he lectures on Iberian cultures -literatures, visual media, urban studies, popular culture-. Some of his recent courses include: Soccer in the Hispanic World; Almodóvar’s Spain; Barcelona: Images of a City; and Everyday Life in Franco’s Spain. His last book, titled La Trama Mortal. Pere Gimferrer y la política de la literatura (1962-1985) [The Mortal Plot. Pere Gimferrer and the Politics of Literature (1962-1983)], analyzes at length and for the first time the influential participation of the renowned Catalan poet, editor, and translator Pere Gimferrer (b. 1945) in the reconfiguration of the cultural field in Spain and Catalonia after the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). In his current research project (Food Culture and Political Ideologies in 20th Century Catalonia), Prof. Grasset is studying the evolution and growth of food culture and its critical role in the representation and configuration of the Catalan national imaginary. Peninsular Literatures & Cultures; Catalan Studies; Iberian Studies; Intellectual History; Film Studies El Pais; La Vanguardia; Revista Letras Libres; Diari Ara, Suplement Llegim; Letra Global; 452ºF Revista de teoría de la literatura y de literatura comparada; El imparcial; Rassegna iberistica; Llengua i Literatura. Education
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