Alejandro Martínez

Alejandro Martínez

Alejandro Martínez (Havana, Cuba). Graduated in Linguistics in 1977; In 1985 he obtained a master's degree in Education and, two years later, another in Spanish Literature. In 1991, he received a doctorate in Spanish Literature from the University of Toronto. Currently, he is a professor of literature and languages ​​at the University of York, in this Canadian city.

His research in contemporary Spanish Literature has focused on the socio-cultural relationship of the self and the other and the role of dialogue in human relationships. He has published the books: Language and dialogue in the work of Unamuno (1998); Realism, representation and reality (2009); Actuality and validity of the Baroque (2014); Dialogy, parody and carnival in Don Quijote de la Mancha (2016); Three sad tigers, or the artificiality of language (2017); Irrepresentability and subversion in Borges's narrative and Transgression and censorship in the Spanish picaresque novel and Ethics and reflection in Cervantes's exemplary novels (2019).