Jordi Serrano-Muñoz
ジョルディ・セラノ・ムニョス
MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher
comparative literature, transpacific, climate fiction, speculative fiction, ecocriticism, world literature
Spanish, English, Catalan, Japanese
Ghent , Belgium
Jordi Serrano-Muñoz is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on comparative literature, ecocriticism, and transpacific connections. He is currently based at the University of Ghent conducting a project on disaster representation in contemporary transpacific narratives thanks to a MSCA grant. He also teaches the Open University of Catalonia and the University of Granada. He was lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at El Colegio de México between 2020 and 2021, and has been a Japan Foundation Fellow (2021-2022) at Waseda University.
Ph.D., Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 2019
Research Master, Literary Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, 2015
Degree, East Asian Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 2013
(2025) Editor of the Special Issue: "Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism. Understanding the Challenges of Imagining the Climate Crisis", Theory Now.
(2022) East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies, co-edited with Chiara Olivieri, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-030-74530-1.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74528-8(2022) “The Illegitimate Ally: The Hegemonic National Narrative of Japan in the US (1945-2020)“, in The End of Western Hegemonies?, edited by Marie-Josée Lavallée, Vernon Press, ISBN: 978-1-64889-468-8
(2021) “Closure in Dystopia: Projecting Memories of the End of Crises in Speculative Fiction,” Memory Studies 14 (6): 1347-1361, 2021.
DOI: 10.1177/17506980211054340(2021) “Bodies and Economic Violences in Contemporary Japanese Fiction: Absence, Change, and Empowerment in Yū Miri, Murata Sayaka, and Kawakami Mieko“, in Narratives of Violence, edited by Teresa Iribarren, Roger Canadell, and Josep-Anton Fernández, Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica
DOI: 10.30687/978-88-6969-460-8(2021) “Canon Breeds Canon: Murakami Haruki, World Literature, and the Hegemonic Representation of Japan in the United States“, Archiv orientální, 89 (2), 339-363.
DOI: 10.47979/aror.j.89.2.339-363
- Themes of Contemporary Literature, Open University of Catalonia, 2020 - ongoing
- Japanese Literature: A Critical Overview, University of Granada, 2020 - ongoing
- Literature and Space, Open University of Catalonia, 2023 - ongoing
- Japan: Postwar Literature and Thought, El Colegio de México, 2020-2021
- Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2027
- Japan Foundation Fellowship, 2021-2022
- ‘la Caixa’ International Postgraduate Fellowship, 2013-2015
- EALSCE
- EAJS
12/3/2024