Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez Associate Professor in Spansish

About me

Hoc enim uno præstamus vel maxime feris,
quod colloquimur inter nos.
[M. Tullii Ciceronis – De Oratore, Liber Primus VIII].

 

Research Areas

  • Baroque and Neobaroque Aesthetics and Literature.
  • Cultural Memory.
  • The Literature of Memory o Memory Narratives.
  • Postnational Literature.
  • Wit and Poetics.
  • Literature and the Anthropocene.
  • Environmental Humanities.
  • Indigenous Poetry.
  • 21st-Century Literature o Contemporary Hispanic Narrative.
  • Early Modern Spanish Literature.

Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics at Stockholm University. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca (2010), awarded with the highest distinction (Unanimous Cum Laude). His scholarly work bridges the study of Spanish Golden Age literature and contemporary narrative, with a particular focus on memory studies, Baroque identity, and the formal evolution of the Spanish novel. As a leading researcher in the field of memory, he serves as the Coordinator of the International Research Network "Memoria y Narración". His career includes significant international experience, notably as an Associate Professor and Post-Doctoral researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Teaching Experience

(2008-2011): Udenlandslektor (Visiting Assistant Professor) Aarhus Univesitet Spanish language professor in the levels of oral and written expression at the undergraduate (bachelor) level.  Through the use of various methods and following the Common European Framework for teaching foreign languages, the classes were developed to appeal to student participation and involvement
(2011 – 2013): Post-doc, Aarhus University
(2013 – 2015): Videnskabelig assistent (scientific assistant) at the University of Aarhus.
(2015-2016): Associate professor at the University of Aarhus

With over nine years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, JCCS has had the opportunity to teach a wide spectrum of topics within the field of Hispanic studies.  In this way, the range of courses and subjects that he has taught include Spanish literature before 1800 (that is, Golden Age, including the study of the first works written about America); Spanish literature from the 19th -21st centuries, Literature, Poetry, and other Artistic representations in the 21st century digital sphere; Literature and cultural memory in the Hispanic world; and Latin-American literature and culture.

 

Teaching Experience

(2008-2011): Udenlandslektor (Visiting Assistant Professor) Aarhus Univesitet Spanish language professor in the levels of oral and written expression at the undergraduate (bachelor) level.  Through the use of various methods and following the Common European Framework for teaching foreign languages, the classes were developed to appeal to student participation and involvement
(2011 – 2013): Post-doc, Aarhus University
(2013 – 2015): Videnskabelig assistent (scientific assistant) at the University of Aarhus.
(2015-2016): Associate professor at the University of Aarhus

With over nine years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, JCCS has had the opportunity to teach a wide spectrum of topics within the field of Hispanic studies.  In this way, the range of courses and subjects that he has taught include Spanish literature before 1800 (that is, Golden Age, including the study of the first works written about America); Spanish literature from the 19th -21st centuries, Literature, Poetry, and other Artistic representations in the 21st century digital sphere; Literature and cultural memory in the Hispanic world; and Latin-American literature and culture.

  • Memory Studies: Investigating the formal and stylistic relationships between contemporary Spanish novels and the historical tradition of memory in Spanish literature .
  • Early Modern & Baroque Studies: Analyzing the philosophical and prescriptive wit in the configuration of Spanish Baroque poetic identity
  • Contemporary Narrative: Researching neobaroque engineering, fractal strategies, and the impact of "fictional capitalism" on Hispanic literature.
  • Literature and Anthropocene.

Last publications:

[Journal article, peer reviewed] “La dignidad como asunto en la literatura memorialista española. El caso de Los girasoles ciegos.” In Memoria y narración. Revista de estudios sobre el pasado conflictivo de sociedades y culturas contemporáneas. University of Oslo, num. 5 (2026), pp. 67-81 (ISSN: 2535-597X). DOI: https://journals.uio.no/MyN/issue/view/1026

[Book review] Carlos A. Jáuregui, David M. Solodkow. Bartolomé de las Casas y el paradigma biopolítico de la modernidad colonial. Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Colección: Parecos y australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia 28, 2024, pp. 451. In, Revista Iberoamericana, Liverpool University Press, Volume 91, Number 293, Oct-Dec 2025, pp. 987-1004.

https://doi.org/10.3828/revista.2025.91.293.987

[Book chapter, peer reviewed] “Planeta turista. Periferia literaria en clave poética.” Discursos y estéticas de la fricción. Estudios sobre literatura, poder y tecnología. Sergio Fernández Martínez y Sheila Pastor (eds.). Madrid: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2025, pp. 215–230. (ISBN: 9788491925415).

[Book chapter, peer reviewed] “Vestigios de una naturaleza deshumanizada. Organicidad de la poesía narrativa indígena como respuesta a las prácticas de explotación de la naturaleza en el Antropoceno.” Literatura y antropoceno: imaginarios ecosociales en España y América Latina en el siglo XXI. Jesús Montoya Juárez y Natalia Moraes Mena. Granada: Comares, 2025, pp. 25-44. (ISBN: 978-84-1369-929-5).

[Journal article, peer reviewed] (with Daniel Escandell Montiel) “Memoria exocanónica. Contrapuntos memorialistas y contranacionalismo militante en Los huérfanos de Jorge Carrión. In Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Madrid: Universidad de Alcalá, Vol. XII, núm. 1, (2024), pp. 31-48 (ISSN: 2255-4505). DOI: https://doi.org/10.37536/preh.2024.12.1.2204

[Journal article, peer reviewed] (with Daniel Escandell Montiel) “Visiones, percepciones y reflexiones en torno a la obra de Fernando Rodríguez de la Flor”. In Variantes de autor y redacciones múltiples del Humanismo al Barroco (España e Italia) (monographic issue), Creneida. Anuario de Literaturas Hispánicas. Departamento de Estudios Filológicos y Literarios. Universidad de Córdoba, num. 10, enero-diciembre 2022, pp. 785-793. (ISSN: 2340-8960) DOI: https://doi.org/10.21071/calh.vi10

[Journal article, peer reviewed] “Memoria, resistencia y posnacionalismo en La bandera de Chile de Elvira Hernández”. In Arte y activismo: acciones en la ,América contemporánea (monographic issue), Diálogos Latinoamericanos. Aarhus: Aarhus University, 31 (2022), pp. 29-42. (ISSN 2246-8609). On-line: https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/

[Essai in collective volumen] “El dilema de lo inefable. Turismo y experiencia poética”. Leyendo el turismo. Antología de ensayos y reseñas, 10 Aniversario (2011-2021). LeCanarien Ediciones. Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural. Gobierno de Canarias, 2021, pp. 20-25.

[Book chapter, peer reviewed] “Narrativa contranacional y supraterritorial en el tiempo del posnacionalismo baldío. Globalización, cosmopolitismo y cosmopoética en Yo mataré monstruos por ti de Víctor Balcells Matas”. In Territorios in(di)visibles. Dilemas en las literaturas hispánicas actuales. Ken Bensos y Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez (eds.). Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2021, pp. 163-194. [ISBN: 978-84-91922-18-6].

[Book chapter, peer reviewed] “23F o la sátira neobarroca en la España del capitalismo de ficción”. In 2021. La odisea del 23-f. Ken Benson and Pepa Novell (eds.). Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2021, pp. 111-128. [ISBN 978-3-96869-113-8].

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