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Dr Ricardo Fernández Romero

Senior Lecturer

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2960

Email

rfr1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 26

Location

United Colleges

Office hours

Tuesday 2-3, Thursday 11-12

 

Biography

Ricardo Fernández Romero received his PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2001. He has taught at Princeton University (2001–2002) and Colorado State University (2002–2006). He joined the University of ���ϳԹ��� in January 2007.

Research areas

Ricardo Fernández Romero has published extensively on autobiographical writing in Spain in the Spanish language. His first book, El relato de infancia en España (1891-1942), is devoted to the study of autobiographies of childhood and adolescence.

Subsequently, his research has also extended to the presence and use of photography in 19th-century autobiographical projects in Spain. A fundamental aspect of this analysis is the study of the use of photography and life writing in 19th- and 20th-century newspapers and magazines.

More recently, his main line of research has been the study of the work of the avant-garde Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963). He has devoted numerous articles and critical editions to this author. The most relevant study is the monograph Ramón Gómez de la Serna o el mercader de imágenes.

The study of Gómez de la Serna has extended to the analysis of the confluences of technology (cinema and photography), popular mass literature and avant-garde literature from 1909 to 1936. A fundamental aspect of this research is the exploration of the cultural field of the 1920s and 1930s in the context of the cultural industry of the time and cultural consumption practices.

The use of digital tools is an essential part of the study of Gómez de la Serna's work, to which he has dedicated two digital projects.

Digital projects:

The aim of these projects is to create a medium that will give rise to the “libro ultravertebrado”, the visionary project for a multiform and multidisciplinary dissemination platform theorised by Gómez de la Serna.

Ricardo Fernández Romero welcomes PhD candidates in the following areas:

Possible PhD topics:

Ramón Gómez de la Serna´s aesthetics and artistic practices.

Spanish Avant-Garde, photography, and popular culture.

Journalism and Spanish literature (1914-1936).

Digital Humanities and the Spanish Avant-Gardes.

Development of Autobiography in 19th century Spain.

Exile and autobiography. Theory of autobiography.

Photography and autobiography.

Selected publications

• Fernandez Romero, R., 5 Feb 2026, Literatura popular: lecturas y público en la Edad de Plata. Palomar, E. J. O. & Caballero, G. N. (eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang, (Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global; vol. 32).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Fernandez Romero, R., 19 Jan 2026, In: �ѱ�徱�ǻ�í��. 8

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Fernandez Romero, R., 9 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Latest Articles, 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Fernandez Romero, R., 7 Apr 2023, Ramón Gómez de la Serna: new perspectives. Fernández Romero, R. (ed.). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, p. 1-11 11 p. (Monografías A; vol. 403).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Fernandez Romero, R., 2023, In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 100, 5, p. 655-678 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Fernandez Romero, R. (Editor), 7 Apr 2023, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 236 p. (Monografías A; vol. 403)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Fernandez Romero, R., 7 Apr 2023, Ramón Gómez de la Serna: new perspectives. Fernández Romero, R. (ed.). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, p. 12-62 51 p. (Monografías A; vol. 403).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Fernandez Romero, R. (Editor), 3 Sept 2022, Madrid: Clásicos Hispánicos. 166 p. (Clasicos hispanicos; vol. 106)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Fernandez Romero, R., 31 Aug 2021, Umbrales de vanguardia. Madrid: Juan Carlos Albert, Editor, p. 281-304

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Fernandez Romero, R., 5 Feb 2021, Twentieth-century literary criticism: excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, & other creative writers who died between 1900 and 1999. Schwartz, C. (ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, Vol. 406. p. 145-272 128 p. (Twentieth-century literary criticism; vol. 406).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)