Jorge Sacido-Romero
Jorge Sacido-Romero is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). His research has centred mainly on the reproduction of ideological discourse in literary texts and the tensions it generates. Along these lines, he has published on Joseph Conrad (Atlantis 2011), James Joyce (Papers on Joyce 2012) or Slavoj Žižek (Grial 2007), amongst others. He has also coedited the volumes National Identities and European Literatures (Peter Lang 2008) and Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction (Brill / Rodopi 2015). In recent years, Sacido Romero has focused on the study of the short story in English, conducting research on the work of Scottish writer Janice Galloway and supervising two research projects: Modernism, Postmodernism and the English Short Story funded by the Galician Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia, 2008-2011) and Women’s Tales: The Short Fiction of Contemporary British Writers 1974-2013 funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2014-2016). Sacido Romero is also a member of the steering group of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) and editorial consultant of the Journal of the Short Story in English.
@: jorge.sacido@usc.es
Personal Website: https://usc-es.academia.edu/Jorgesacido
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Sounding Diasporic Dislocation: The Object Voice in Postcolonial Short Stories”. Short Fiction in Theory and Practice [forthcoming in 2021]. ISSN 2043-0701
Lojo-Rodríguez Laura, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Noemí Pereira-Ares, eds. Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction. Leiden: Brill [forthcoming in 2021]
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories”. In Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction, eds. L. Lojo-Rodríguez, J. Sacido-Romero and N. Pereira-Ares. Leiden: Brill [forthcoming in 2021]
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories”. In Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story, eds. B. Korte and L. Lojo-Rodríguez. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 115-131. ISBN 978-3-030-30358-7
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. ““Being then Nothing”: Physicality, Abjection and Creation in Janice Galloway’s Short Fiction”. IJES: International Journal of English Studies. 19/1 (2019): 133-150. ISSN: 1578-7044.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge and Laura Lojo-Rodríguez, eds. Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain. New York: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-367-66572-2.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “In a Different Voice: Janice Galloway’s Short Stories”. In Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain, eds. J. Sacido-Romero and L. Lojo-Rodríguez. New York: Routledge, 2018, 191-214. ISBN: 978-0-367-66572-2.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Intertextuality and Intermediality in Janice Galloway’s ‘Scenes from the Life’ (Blood 1991)”. Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. 8/1-2 (2018): 99-110. ISSN 2043-0701.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Liminality in Janice Galloway’s Short Fiction”. Zeitschrift für und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. 66/4 (2018), 443-459.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Ghostly Visitations in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali Smith”. Atlantis: A Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. 38/2 (Dec 2016): 83-102. ISSN: 0210-6124.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction (co-editado con Sylvia Mieszkowsk). Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2015. ISBN: 9789004304383.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English (editor). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.
Sacido-Romero, Jorge.“The Boy’s Voice and Voices for the Boy in Joyce’s ‘The Sisters’”. Papers on Joyce17/18 (Dec 2012): 203-242. ISSN: 1135-0504
Sacido-Romero, Jorge. “Failed Exorcism: Kurtz Spectral Status and Its Ideological Function in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’”. Atlantis: A Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. 32/2 (Dec 2011): 43-60. ISSN: 0210-6124.