Neus Rotger

Neus Rotger is an associate professor of comparative literature in the Arts and Humanities Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and a guest lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Within the Global Literary Studies Research Lab, she coordinates the research line on the Global Novel.

She has been a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of the Novel (Stanford University), the Centre de Recherche de Littérature Comparée (Université Sorbonne-Paris IV), and the Department of Rhetoric (University of California, Berkeley).

Her research focuses on the theory and history of the novel, cultural history, and world and global literatures. She has published essays in Revue de Littérature Comparée, Studies in the Novel, Journal of Global History, Peter Lang, and Amsterdam University Press.

Selected Bibliography

Rotger, Neus, and Marta Puxan-Oliva. “The Novel after the Global Turn: Decentered Perspectives from the Spanish Literary Field”. Studies in the Novel, vol. 53, no. 3, 2021. Forthcoming.

Rotger, Neus. “The Novel as Theory of History. Early Modern French Theories of Historical Writing”. Revue de Littérature Comparée, no.3, 2020, pp. 255-269.

Rotger, Neus, Diana Roig-Sanz, and Marta Puxan-Oliva. “Towards a Cross-disciplinary History of the Global in the Humanities and the Social Sciences”. Journal of Global History, vol. 14, no. 3, 2019, pp. 325-334.

Rotger, Neus, Diana Roig-Sanz, and Marta Puxan-Oliva. “Historicizing the Global: An Interdisciplinary Perspective”.Special issue of Journal of Global History, introduced and edited by Neus Rotger, Diana Roig-Sanz and Marta Puxan-Oliva, vol. 14, no. 3, 2019.

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