Comparative Literature · World Literature · Applied Humanities
I am Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. My work explores how literature moves across languages, cultures, territories and historical periods.
I am Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. My academic work has developed across comparative literature, world literature, literary history and translation studies.
A central question throughout my research has been how literature travels: between languages and literary systems, across geographical and political borders, and through institutions, markets, translations and other forms of mediation. This interest has led me from comparative literary history and literary geography to the study of world literature, circulation, small and minor literatures, translation and transnational cultural relations.
My more recent work brings these questions into dialogue with environmental and Anthropocene humanities. I am particularly interested in the material and ecological conditions of literary circulation, in relationships between literature and territory, and in ways of extending literary research beyond conventional academic forms through cartography, digital methods and public humanities.
My work has been shaped by sustained international teaching and research, including appointments and activities in the United Kingdom, China, the United States and continental Europe. I am a member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History, and a member of the Board of the Harvard Institute for World Literature.
My research approaches literature relationally: as something produced not only by texts and authors, but also by translation, circulation, institutions, geography, historical scale and material environments. Five interconnected areas currently structure this work.
My current projects combine comparative literary research with questions of cultural circulation, cognition, ageing, territory and public engagement.
Iberian Magical Realism in the 21st Century: Comparative and Cognitive Analysis of a Postsecular Narrative. A research project on contemporary Iberian magical realism combining comparative and cognitive approaches. Co-funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Spanish State Research Agency and the European Union.
Reading Age across Borders: Literary Narratives and Lived Experience in Later Life. A collaborative project supported by the EUniWell Seed Funding Programme.
A selection of publications reflecting the development of my work in comparative literature, world literature, literary history, translation and environmental humanities.
I teach comparative literature, world literature, literary theory, translation and environmental approaches to literature at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Comparative literature, literary theory, world literature, ecocriticism, translation, magical realism and research methods.
Comparative literature, translation studies, ecocriticism, animal studies and global/planetary approaches.
Courses and seminars at Sichuan University, Shanghai International Studies University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, CUNY Graduate Center, Aarhus University and Université de Bourgogne.
Supervision of MA and doctoral research in comparative literature, world literature, translation, cultural studies and related fields.
SENTIDIÑO is a laboratory for cultural citizenship and applied humanities connecting research, creation and intervention in the territory.
It works to turn humanistic knowledge into tools for interpreting contemporary problems, activating communities and producing new forms of cultural participation.
The initiative grows out of a broader understanding of the humanities as a form of situated knowledge: research capable of moving beyond academic spaces and entering into dialogue with territories, institutions and communities.
A concise public curriculum vitae with academic appointments, publications, research projects, invited lectures, teaching and professional service.
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
cesar.dominguez[at]usc.gal
Professor of Comparative Literature
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Honorary Research Fellow
University of Glasgow