Martín Fernández Fernández

Martín Fernández Fernández is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and German Studies of the University of Santiago de Compostela. From January 2022 to August 2024, he was a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture of the University of A Coruña. In 2018, Martín spent a three-month research stay as an Assistant Specialist at the Department of African American Studies of the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Emmett Till Trauma in US Fiction: Psychological Realism, Magic Realism, and the Spectral (Peter Lang, 2023), and has published his research in scientific journals such as RAEI, RCEI, and REN, among others. Martín has been member of competitive research projects about race and the body in US literature and film (ref. PGC2018-095687-B-I00, AEI, EU), and about the application of waste studies to the exploration of literature and contemporary globalization (ref. PID2019-106798GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). His areas of interest include African American studies and the literature of the US South.

@: m.fernandez.fernandez@usc.es

PUBLICACIÓNS REPRESENTATIVAS:

Fernández Fernández, Martín. “Black Resistance against Racist Wastification in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie.” Atlantis, vol. 47, no. 1, 2025. (forthcoming)

Fernández Fernández, Martín. “The Affiliative Relations of the Black Atlantic in John A. Williams’s The Man Who Cried I Am.” Roczniki Humanistyczne, vol. 73, no. 11, 2024. (forthcoming)

Fernández Fernández, Martín. “Human Waste Down the Sewer: The Racist Abnormalities of US Life in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground.” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 27, 2023, pp. 85-104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12795/REN.2023.i27.14.

Fernández Fernández, Martín. The Emmett Till Trauma in US Fiction: Psychological Realism, Magic Realism, and the Spectral. Peter Lang, 2023. DOI: 10.3726/b20676.

Fernández Fernández, Martín. “A Necropolitical Approach to Waste Theory.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 86, 2023, pp. 147-56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.09.

Fernández Fernández, Martín. “Tracing Emmett Till’s Legacy from Black Lives Matter back to the Civil Rights Movement.” English Literary Studies: From Theory to Activism, special issue of Alicante Journal of English Studies, vol. 33, 2020, pp. 43-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2020.33.03.

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