Roberto Del Valle Alcalá
Docent
Programsamordnare
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Docent i engelska med litterär inriktning. Min forskning fokuserar på brittisk arbetarlitteratur och kultur.
Institutionen för kultur och lärande
PA213
Roberto del Valle Alcalá holds an MA from the University of Essex and a PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2010). His research deals primarily with British working-class literature, Cultural Studies, Marxist and post-Marxist theory, utopianism, and the history of the British Left. He is also interested in the fictional representation of capitalism and economic phenomena, with a particular focus on labour.
Del Valle Alcalá is the author of two monographs: British Working-Class Fiction: Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) and Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism (Routledge, 2019). He has also co-edited the volume The Cross-Dressed Caribbean (University of Virginia Press, 2013) and a special issue of the journal Studia Neophilologica on the topic of economic inequality as a literary problem (2020).
His articles have appeared in Rethinking Marxism, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Journal for Cultural Research, Cultural Critique, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Textual Practice, College Literature, Genre, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Culture, Theory and Critique and Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, among other journals.
Between 2015 and 2019 he led the project ‘Inoperative Fictions: Worklessness and British Literature from Romanticism to the Great Recession’ (Swedish Research Council).
He is currently working on a new monograph exploring the tensions between utopian discourse and radical politics in British literature since the 19th century and is also completing a chapter on Robert Tressell for the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature.
Del Valle Alcalá is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Class & Culture and has served as an external project reviewer for The National Science Centre of Poland.
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