Miguel Alirangues López

Miguel Alirangues is a doctoral researcher in Literature at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He holds a FPU (Training Program for University Teachers) fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities in the Department of Humanities: Philosophy, Language and Literature. His thesis “The Wound in the Word. Towards a Literary Theory of the Negativity of Harm” aims to elaborate a theoretical approach that addresses the way in which literature is a privileged discourse of elaboration of the negative dimension of historical experiences of harm. To this end, the project develops a study of the category of negativity and its fundamental role in explaining both the experiences of harm and the concept of fiction in the tradition of Critical Theory. He is a member of the R&D project “Subjects, Emotions, Structures: Project for a Critical Social Theory” (FFI 2016-75073-R) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and Essex University.

Publications:

“Sobre la memoria negativa. Una lectura de La estética de la resistencia de P. Weiss y Austerlitz de Sebald”. Lo Sguardo – Rivista di Filosofia, 29:2, 2020.

“‘Nichts,/nichts ist verloren.’ Negativity and Memory in Paul Celan’s Engführung. Isabelle Koch, Sebastian Hüsch, Philipp Thomas (eds.), Negative Knowledge. Narr Francke, 2020.

(with Elisa Cabrera) “Duelo y memoria de los cuerpos ausentes en Antígona González”. Impossibilia. Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios, 18, 2019.

“Regaining the Subject: Foucault and the Frankfurt School on Critical Subjectivity”. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 20:4, 2018.

“La palabra precaria. Prolegómenos para una teoría negativa de la ficción”. Escritura e Imagen, 14, 2018.

“La dialéctica del olvido. Notas para reconceptualizar la tensión entre ausencia y pérdida”. Brumaria (ed.), Olvidar – Forgetting. Madrid: Brumaria, 2018.