Martin Renes

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0001-8105-5019

Knowledge area: Filologia Anglesa

Vicedirector of the UB's Observatory: Australian Studies Centre (CEA)

Codirector of the UB's Observatory: Australian and Transnational Studies Centre (CEAT)

Grup d'Estudis Literaris Transnacionals (GELT)

Teaching Innovation Groups:

IP Innovació docent en l'expressió en anglès
IP Innovació Docent i la seva Avaluació al Grau d´estudis Anglesos

My Profile

Cornelis Martin RENES is an expatriate Dutchman who has lived in Barcelona since 1987 working in the field of language and literature teaching and translation. He holds a PhD in English by the University of Barcelona (2010, First-Class Honours) and has been a member of the UB's English studies staff since 2001, and as a Senior Lecturer since 2017. His main area of interest is the study of film and fiction from the settler nations South Africa, New Zealand and especially Australia, employing a critical postcolonial point of view within the larger framework of Cultural Studies. He has enjoyed yearly fellowships at Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia from 2011 to 2019, following up on his PhD research on Indigenous-Australian fiction, which deals with the writing of Alexis Wright and Kim Scott, among others. He is particularly interested in the rewriting of European paradigms of knowledge through the encounter with the Indigenous Other.

Martin is the co-director of the University of Barcelona's interdisciplinary Observatory: Australian and Transnational Studies Centre (CEAT), and co-edits the Centre's online journal Coolabah and e-books, and has co-convened conferences and seminars on Australian Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Social Justice (SCU, Australia), The Centre for Human Rights Education (Curtin U, Australia) and The Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath (U of Tasmania, Australia)¿see http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/ for links. He was on the executive board of the European Australian Studies Association (EASA) for six years, four of which as Chair, and a member of the organizing committee of the IAFOR back-to-back annual conference cycle in Barcelona on arts, media, culture and education, hosted by the CEAT. He has formed part of Spanish ministry-funded research projects on postcolonial crime fiction (UB) and on the transmodern paradigm in contemporary fiction (UZAR).

Martin's latest publications are:

Renes, Cornelis Martin. 2019. "The Politics of the Peninsular 'Patrix': 'In Spain there are no political prisoners!'" IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies 4(1), 2019.

Renes, Cornelis Martin. 2019. "Sung by an Indigenous Siren: Epic and Epistemology in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria". Coolabah 27: 52-71.

Renes, Cornelis Martin. 2021. "Inside and Outside the Body Politic: Fortress Australia, Europe, and Spain." Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Research 27(2): 399-415.

Renes, Cornelis Martin. 2021. "Alexis Wright's The Swan Book: Swansong or Songline?" European Legacy-Towards New Paradigms 26 (7-8): 707-719.

Renes, Cornelis Martin. 2021. "Alexis Wright's The Swan Book: Indigenous-Australian Swansong or Songline?" Humanities 10(3): 89-101.

Renes, Cornelis Martin. 2022. "Alexis Wright's fiction, Aboriginal Realism, and the Sovereignty of the Indigenous Mind". Commonwealth: Essays and Studies 44(2).

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Academic training

Llicenciatura . Universitat de Barcelona . 14/09/2001 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor . Universitat de Barcelona . 28/01/2010 . (Ph.D.)

Diploma d'Estudis Avanzats . Universitat de Barcelona . 04/07/2006 . (Official Master)

Teaching imparted

Poesia Britànica (Bachelor's degree) - Estudios Ingleses - Universidad de Barcelona.

Lines of Activity (Teaching and Research)

Grup d'investigació multidisciplinar Vides en Migracio: Trencament i Continuïtat. Recerca en moviments migratoris, prenent com a cas exemplar l'Austràlia

Grup d'investigació multidisciplinar 'Espais migratoris: dis/continuïtat o transformació cultural?'. Recerca en moviments migratoris, prenent com a cas exemplar l'Austràlia. Convocatòria MEC gener 2011

Grup d'investigació 'Postcolonial Crime Fiction (PROCRIF)'. Recerca en la novela negra en diferents ex-colònies de parla anglesa com ara Austràlia, Nova Zelanda, i Sudafrica (en preparació)

Membre (2006), Vice-director (2012) i Co-director (2013)del Centre d'Estudis Australians de la Universitat de Barcelona amb dret al vot. Participació a l'organització de congressos d'impacte internacional, projectes d'investigació i cursos d'extensió universitària

Literatura en la era transmoderna: Celebración, límites y transgresión. FF12017-84258-P IPs: María Dolores Herrero Granado; Bárbara Arizti

Relevant publications

Renes, C.M. (2019). Sung by an Indigenous Siren: Epic and Epistemology in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria. Coolabah, 27, pp. 52 - 71 . http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO2016184 . ISSN: 1988-5946

Renes, Cornelis Martin (2021). Inside and Outside the Body Politic: Fortress Australia, Europe, and Spain. JOURNAL OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, 27(2), pp. 399 - 415 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2021.1994714 . ISSN: 1326-0219

Renes, Cornelis Martin (2021). Alexis Wright's The Swan Book: Swansong or Songline?. EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 26(7-8), pp. 706 - 719 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2021.1976455 . ISSN: 1084-8770

Renes, Cornelis Martin (2022). Alexis Wright's fiction, Aboriginal Realism, and the Sovereignty of the Indigenous Mind. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 44(2)

Renes, Cornelis Martin (2021). Alexis Wright's The Swan Book: Indigenous-Australian Swansong or Songline?. Humanities, 10(3), p. 89 . https://doi.org/10.3390/h10030089 . ISSN: 2076-0787

Conferences and Participations in Congresses

Cornelis Martin Renes (2018). 'Hospitality and Sovereignty: Uneasy F(r)iends in Alexis Wright´s Fiction'. (Presentation of communication) . 'Nationalism Old and New: Europe, Australia and Their Others' . JEASA Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia . Barcelona . SPAIN

Renes, Cornelis Martin (2018). "A Dead Man's Dance and a Swan Song: Indigenous Hospitality and Sovereignty in Kim Scott's and Alexis Wright's Fiction". (Presentation of communication) . International Association for Studies of Australia (INASA) Biennial Conference: Unsettling Australia, 3-5 desembre del 2018 . Brisbane . AUSTRALIA

Cornelis Martin Renes (2019). 'Indigenous Australian Literature and the Transmodern Impulse'. (Presentation of communication) . 16th International Conference of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI): Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy. 2-5 July 2019 . Com a articles de 5 a 7.000 mots a The European Legacy, https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cele20 . Saragossa . SPAIN

Cornelis Martin Renes (2019). 'Towards an Indigenous, alternative paradigm of existence: Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013)'. (Presentation of communication) . Alter/Native Spaces, European Association for Studies of Australia, International Conference. 18-20 September 2019.http://sites.univ-tln.fr/easa/ . Com a articles de 5 a 7.000 mots a JEASA, The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, http://www.australianstudies.eu/?page_id=92 . Saragossa . SPAIN

Renes, Cornelis Martin. (2021). Hospitality and "Hostipitality" in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book. (Invited conference) . Colloque: Errances et ancrages.a la Universitat de Toulon, 25-26 novembre 2021 . Toulon . FRANCE

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