Graduate Student, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
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Rodrigo Andrés
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About
I am a PhD student at the University of Barcelona. My current research is supervised by Dr. Rodrigo Andrés.
Doctoral Programme: Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities.
My research focuses on HIV/AIDS texts, theory and analysis. I am primarily interested in (North-)American fiction and the ethics of memory in AIDS literature.
The work I have been doing so far at PhD level has been a blend of literature and philosophy, as well as queer theory, particularly the mnemonic in Ricoeur and Levinasian ethics and how philosophical discourses in general may provide alternative analytical tools in theorising HIV/AIDS in the twenty-first century.
I'm also interested in questions of the HIV/AIDS body and representation, HIV/AIDS in film, popular literature (crime fiction, science fiction) and culture. Also the representation of space and HIV/AIDS in fiction.
Another major interest which I hope to come back to at a later stage, is the work of Pierre Bourdieu, particularly issues of value and the more general question of idealised subjectivities in gay fiction.
I completed my MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 2010 at The University of Manchester, writing a dissertation on Space in American (and French) HIV/AIDS fiction, supervised by Dr. David Alderson. I graduated from Keele University in 2009, with a BA(Hons) in English and American Literatures, after writing two undergraduate dissertations: one on the writing of community in early post-Stonewall writing and the Violet Quill, supervised by Dr. Tim Lustig, and one on Thatcherite homosexualities in Alan Hollinghurst, supervised by Dr. Nick Bentley.
