Assistant Professor
| Name: | Juan Luis Pérez de Luque |  |
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| Position: | Assistant Professor | |
| Research group: | Research in English and Related Literature (HUM-682) | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 84 26 | |
| Email address: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Address: | Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Plaza del Cardenal Salazar, 3 First floor, next to room XV |
Juan L. Pérez de Luque was born in Córdoba (Spain) in 1980. He obtained his degree in English Studies at the University of Córdoba, and a Master’s degree in English as a Vehicle for Intercultural Communication at the University of Jaén (Spain). His PhD thesis (2013) deals with an approach to the ideological background of H.P. Lovecraft’s narrative, from a psychoanalytic-marxist perspective.
He currently works at the University of Cordoba as an assistant professor, in the Department of English and German Studies, where he has been responsible for various subjects, including Discourse Analysis, Popular Literature and Text and Discourse, and is particularly interested in the use of song lyrics as a tool for teaching literary content at the university.
He has been a visiting researcher at Trinity College (Ireland), the University of Nottingham (UK), Brown (USA) and Wheaton College (USA), and has published several articles and book chapters on H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe, Jeanette Winterson, and science fiction and fantasy literature. His main fields of interest are ideological and communitarian readings of horror literature, and fantasy literature in its broadest conception. He is currently part of a collective research project centered on the connections between transparency and contemporary narrative, where he is focusing his analysis on contemporary horror fiction by US authors.
Website: http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/writsofempire/team-members/members/perez-luque-juan-luis.php
Main publications
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. and Martín-Salván, Paula (eds.) (2025): Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Fiction in English. Peter Lang. (Forthcoming).
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2024). “Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon: Ethics, Individual and State Secrecy.” Brno Studies in English, vol. 50, n1.
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2024). “Political secrets in William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy”. The Politics of Transparency: Fear, Secrecy and Exposure in Modern American Fiction. Paula Martín-Salván and Sascha Pöhlmann (eds.). Camden House, pp. 173-193.
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2021): “Secrecy, invisibility and community in Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate”. Secrecy and community 21st century fiction. María J. López and Pilar Villar-Argaiz (eds.). London: Bloomsbury. 139-154.
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2020). Ideology and scientific thought in H.P. Lovecraft. Granada: Comares.
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2019): “H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’ – Weird Fantasy.” Sci-Fi: A Companion. Jack Fennell (ed.). Oxford: Peter Lang. 17-24.
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2019): “Ghostly Presences in H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” Visitors from Beyond the Grave. Ghosts in World Literature. Dámaris Romero-González, Israel Muñoz-Gallarte and Gabriel Laguna Mariscal (eds.). Coimbra: Coimbra University Press. 187-198.
- Pérez-de-Luque, Juan L. (2017): “Descending Spirits: Ideological Implications of the Vertical Movements in Poe and Lovecraft.” The Lovecraftian Poe. Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation and Transformation. Sean Moreland (ed.). Maryland: Lehigh University Press. 89-106.
- Pérez de Luque, Juan Luis (2017): “Unspeakable Languages: Lovecraft Editions in Spanish.” Lovecraft Proceedings 2: 109-118. ISSN: 9781614981909.
- Pérez de Luque, Juan Luis (2014). “Gothic Mythology: ‘The Moon-Bog’ and the Greek connection.” The Lovecraft Annual 8: 186-204. ISSN: 1935-6102.
Research projects
- “Poetics and Politics of Transparency in Contemporary Literature in English” (PID2023-148878NB-C21)
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
University of Córdoba and University of Granada
01/09/2024-31/08/2027
Main researchers: Paula Martín Salván. Gerardo Rodríguez Salas
- “Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Literature in English” (PID2019-104526GB-I00)
Ministry of Science and Innovation
University of Córdoba and University of Granada