About our Researchers

 Juan Ignacio Oliva

Dr Juan Ignacio Oliva is Full Professor at Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canaries, SPAIN), where he teaches Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures with an interest in environmentally aware texts. He has recently co-edited Revolving Around India(s) (CSP 2019) and four monographs on “Indian Ocean Imaginaries,” “Indian Representations on Screen” & “Ecocriticism in English Studies” (RCEI 64/77/82/83 ), and edited The Painful Chrysalis. Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity (Peter Lang 2011) and Realidad y simbología de la montaña (Bilbioteca Franklin UAH 2012).

He is presently head of the La Laguna Center for Canadian Studies and current editor of RCEI (Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses).

He served as secretary of AEDEI (Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, 2010-2016), and was appointed president of EASLCE (the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment) in the period 2014-16; president of AEEII (Spanish Association of Interdisciplinary Studies about India), 2014-2019, and is currently president of the Spanish James Joyce Association (2019-). He forms part of GIECO (Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica-Franklin Institute-UAH) and Ratnakara (Indian Ocean-UAB) research groups.

Publications

  1. Oliva, Juan Ignacio & Jorge Diego Sánchez (eds). Cultural Representations of India and Indian Diasporas on Screen. SPULL: RCEI 83, 2021.
  2. Oliva, Juan Ignacio & Esther Pujolràs-Noguer (eds). Indian Ocean Imaginaries. SPULL: RCEI 82, 2021.
  3. Oliva Cruz, J.I. Navarro Tejero, A. Diego Sánchez, J. (eds). Revolving Around India(s). Alternative Images, Emerging Perspectives. Reino Unido: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
  4. González Rodríguez. M.L; Oliva Cruz. J.I. “Cultural Schizophrenia” in Some Diasporic Indian Women Writers, and Their Quest for Unity. Revolving Around India(s). Alternative Images, Emerging Perspectives. Reino Unido: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. pp. 196- 223.
  5. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. «’Materia líquida’: la fluidez porosa del mar en la memoria del exilio”. Visiones ecocríticas del mar en la literatura. 4. Madrid: SPUAH, 2016. pp. 81 – 96.
  6. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. “Journeying Backwards”: Images of India in the Canadian Poetical Stream. India in Canada; Canada in India. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. pp. 171 – 181.
  7. Oliva, Juan Ignacio (Ed.). Realidad y simbología de la Montaña. Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin UAH, 2012.
  8. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. «De las Rocosas a los Himalayas”: simbología y afiliación de las montañas exóticas. Realidad y simbología de la Montaña. Madrid: SPUAH. pp. 125 – 137.
  9. Oliva, Juan Ignacio (Ed.). The Painful Chrysalis. Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
  10. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. “’Polychromatic Disturbances’: Stories by South Asian American Women Writers”. The Painful Chrysalis. Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. pp. 143 – 155.
  11. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. «’Indias in mind’: The Literary Recovery of Absent India». India in the World. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. pp. 87 – 99.
  12. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. “’Lo que la tierra nos cuenta’: problemáticas literarias del paisaje exótico”. Literatura y sostenibilidad en la era del antropoceno. Las Palmas: Mapfre Guanarteme, 2011. pp. 171 – 192.
  13. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. Historia, Clase, Género y Raza en la literatura angloindia en la diáspora. London: Kadle Books, 2011.
  14. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. «Poéticas del paisaje y el territorio en la literatura del desarraigo». Ecocríticas: Literatura y medio ambiente. Madrid: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2010. pp. 293 – 310.
  15. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. «Reescribiendo la tierra: poemas indostanos en Canadá y EEUU». Canadaria. 6. La Laguna: El Productor SL, 2009. Pp. 66-91.
  16. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. “Resonancias clásicas en la poesía indo-canadiense contemporánea”. Canadaria. 5. La Laguna: El Productor SL, 2009. pp. 58 – 66.
  17. Oliva, Juan Ignacio. “Problematic Constructions of Exile in Indo-Canadian Women Writing”. The Grove. Working Papers in English Studies. 15. SPUJAEN, 2008. pp. 95 – 109.