Roberto Elvira Mathez joins GlobaLS as Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher

The research group GlobaLS – Global Literary Studies Research Lab at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is pleased to announce the incorporation of Dr. Roberto Elvira Mathez as a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher.

His current research project explores the role of translating Indigenous Latin American literature into Spanish and Portuguese in its global circulation. The project examines how translation can function both as a bridge and as a barrier in the international dissemination of this cultural production, with particular attention to publishing circuits, language policies, and dynamics of cultural mediation.

Dr. Elvira Mathez’s research has focused on literature produced in working-class neighborhoods in Latin America, adopting a comparative approach to the relationships between writing, territory, and urban marginality in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. His work operates at the intersection of literary studies, translation studies, and transnational cultural analysis.

He earned his PhD at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he also taught, and has developed an international academic trajectory spanning Argentina, Stockholm, and Porto. In addition to his scholarly work, he is the author of three short story collections and a translator of Scandinavian and Lusophone poetry into Spanish. He was recently awarded the Ciudad de Badajoz Poetry Prize for his poetry collection Lenguas extintas.

This appointment strengthens GlobaLS’s research lines in global literary studies, translation policies, and the transnational circulation of literature.