About The Speaker
Jorge Català-Carrasco
Dr Català-Carraso joined Newcastle University in 2010 after completing his PhD at The University of Nottingham. He is currently Head of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. His work focuses on contemporary Spanish and Latin American cultural production from the 20th century through the 21st century. Trained as a literary scholar, Dr Català-Carraso extended his education with a visual culture formation on graphic narrative, and memory studies.
Some of his monographs include Vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en crisis, were he studied the development of avant-garde graphic humour in Spain and Cuba during the Spanish Civil War and the early years of the Cuban Revolution. He has contributed also to the edition of comics for the promotion, dissemination and networking of researchers on Iberian comics, as well as their relationship with professionals and the comics industry. He is a co-investigator in the international research project (COST-EU funded) entitled iCOn-MICS – Investigation on comics and graphic novels in the iberian cultural area (hypotheses.org).