Rodrigo L贸pez Mart铆nez wins award for most important study of 2022 at Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Rodrigo L贸pez Mart铆nez has been awarded the James Whiston Memorial Prize for the most outstanding article of 2022 by the
The James Whiston Memorial Prize of 拢1,000 is awarded each year to the author of the article, on any subject within the field of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, which is judged by a panel of peer assessors to be the most original, accomplished and important study recently published or accepted for publication in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies or the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies.
The Latin American Cultural Studies PhD student鈥檚 article 鈥楨ssays in (Transatlantic) Transition: The Argentine Journal Sitio (1981鈥�1987) and Alberto Card铆n鈥檚 Como si nada (1981鈥�, compares the Argentine journal Sitio (1981鈥�1987) and Alberto Card铆n鈥檚 book Como si nada (1981). He argues that both redefine the essay form in the face of the Argentine and Spanish democratic transitions.
Professor Jo Evans, Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, and chair of the judging panel, said: 鈥淩odrigo鈥檚 meticulously researched and highly original article was described by our panel as 鈥渋ntellectually ambitious and persuasively argued with a refreshingly transnational comparative approach.鈥�
鈥淚 am so glad that the Editors and reviewers of the Bulletin found value and originality in my work,鈥� said L贸pez Mart铆nez. 鈥淚t has been intellectually motivating to review the transition through the challenging figure of Alberto Card铆n and these usually overlooked transatlantic connections, and I appreciate the opportunity to share my outputs with the academic community. I hope I can continue researching these authors and periodicals during a future postdoctoral fellowship.鈥�
L贸pez Mart铆nez鈥� thesis examines fictional depictions of avant-garde groups of artists by authors such as Julio Cort谩zar, Roque Dalton and Roberto Bola帽o. In parallel, he researches transatlantic links between literature and psychoanalysis within the Argentine and Spanish democratic transitions with a particular focus on the works of Alberto Card铆n.
An annual prize of 拢1,000, donated from 2019 by Taylor & Francis Group, Publishers of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and its sibling journal the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, has been established to honour the memory of James Whiston (1945鈥�2017), Associate Professor, Fellow and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. An internationally respected scholar of modern Spain, its history and culture, Professor Whiston was for many years (2002鈥�2014) General Editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
The Bulletin of Spanish Studies was founded at Liverpool in 1923 by the influential British Hispanist E. Allison Peers, and is a learned review dedicated to research into the languages, literatures, histories, cultures and civilizations of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Also known as the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1949鈥�2001), the Bulletin of Spanish Studies soon established a world-wide reputation, and is now recognised as one of the front-ranking journals in the field of Hispanic scholarship, publishing 10 issues per year. Sibling journal the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies was established in 2017 and is published biannually.