Formerly Senior Lecturer in Catalan

email jfernandezmont@uoc.edu

Josep-Anton Fernàndez's research interests are in modern Catalan literature, culture, film and television, and sociolinguistics; cultural studies; lesbian and gay studies. He is currently completing a book on issues of legitimation, identity and cultural politics in contemporary Catalonia (1976-2000). This project aims at elucidating how Catalan culture has adapted its discourses, strategies and practices to the new contexts of the Restoration of the constitutional monarchy and the related social changes, to the consequences of globalisation, and to its own redefinition as a market. The book argues that contemporary Catalan culture is defined by a crisis of cultural models that is characteristically postmodern, in that it encompasses a crisis of its legitimation discourses, of its mechanisms for the production of aesthetic and literary value, and of the discourses of Catalan identity. The study focuses on a wide variety of texts, including political writing, cultural and literary criticism, narrative fiction, film, television, advertising and cultural phenomena (such as the institution of literary prizes, or the art- and book- vending machines).

Publications

Books

• Another Country: Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction (Leeds: Maneys for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2000).

Edited books

• El gai saber: Introducció als estudis gais i lèsbics (Barcelona: Llibres de l'Índex, 2000).
• Calçasses, gallines i maricons: Homes contra la masculinitat hegemònica , with Adrià Chavarria (Barcelona: Angle, 2003)

Articles in journals

• 'Subversió, Transició, Tradició: Política i subjectivitat a la primera poesia de Maria Mercè Marçal', Lectora: Revista de dones i textualitat , 10 (2004).
• 'The Authentic Queen and the Invisible Man: Catalan Camp and Its Conditions of Possibility in Ventura Pons's Ocaña, retrat intermitent ', Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies , 5:1 (2004), 83-99.
• '"Els politòlegs poden dir el que vulguin"? Llengua i independència nacional', Revista de Catalunya , 171 (2002), 108-17.
• 'Com aprofitar-se dels febles i quedar com un senyor: Periodisme, política i (des)legitimació a Contra Catalunya , d'Arcadi Espada', Diàlegs , 6 (1999), 521-542.
• 'The Angel of History and the Truth of Love: Mercè Rodoreda's La plaça del Diamant ', The Modern Language Review , 94:1 (1999), 103-109.
• 'Perverting the Canon: Terenci Moix's La caiguda de l'imperi sodomita ', Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies , 4:1 (1998), 67-76.
• 'My Tragedy is Bigger than Yours: Masculinity in Trouble and the Crisis of Male Authorship in Quim Monzó's Novels', Forum for Modern Language Studies , 24:3 (1998), 262-273.
• 'Death and the Angel in Lluís Fernàndez's L'anarquista nu ', Neophilologus , 79 (1995), 263-271.

Chapters in books

• 'Sex, Lies, and Traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, S.A ', in Constructing Identity in Twentieth-Century Spain , ed. Jo Labanyi (Oxford: OUP, 2002), pp. 138-53
• 'Carn de cànon: Masoquisme i postmodernitat en Món Mascle , de Terenci Moix', in El gai saber: Introducció als estudis gais i lèsbics , ed. Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Barcelona: Llibres de l'Índex, 2000), pp. 329-52.
• 'L'esdevenir-lesbiana de Catalunya: Costa Brava , de Marta Balletbò-Coll', in El gai saber: Introducció als estudis gais i lèsbics , ed. Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Barcelona: Llibres de l'Índex, 2000), pp.393-418.
• 'Becoming Normal: Cultural Policy and Cultural Production in Catalonia', in Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: The Struggle for Modernity , ed. Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi (Oxford: OUP, 1995), pp. 342-346.
• '"No pas el dol: el desencís": Dol i exili a Absència , de Josep Carner", in New Frontiers in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Scholarship: "como se fue el maestro" -- for Derek W. Lomax, in memoriam , ed. Trevor J. Dadson, R.J. Oakley and P.A. Odber de Baubeta (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1994), pp. 361-384.

Forthcoming publications

• 'Immortal/Undead: The Body and the Transmission of Tradition in Ventura Pons's Amic/Amat ', chapter in Burning Darkness (book on Spanish cinema), ed. by Joan Ramon Resina.
• Contra la normalització: Una anàlisi de la cultura catalana contemporània (book)
• Proceedings of the 50 th Conference of the Anglo-Catalan Society/11 th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, special issue of Catalan Review , co-edited with Elisa Martí-López