nireEHU MARTIN SIMONSON
- Knowledge area
- English Philology
- Department
- English, German and Translation and Interpretation Studies
- Centre
- Faculty of Arts
- Electronic mail
- martin.simonson@ehu.eus
Martin graduated in English Philology in 2001 and received his PhD in English Literature in 2006 with a thesis about the narrative dynamics of The Lord of the Rings, which was awarded a Premio Extraordinario. He has been teaching at the UPV/EHU since 2006.
Martin has participated in two research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education devoted to the literature of the American West and literature of place, and he is member of the research group REWEST (Research in Western American Literature). He has supervised one PhD thesis about contemporary North American vampire romance and is currently supervising six other PhD theses on fantasy literature. His current line of research centers on British and North American fantasy and horror literature of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Martin is the author of two books and co-author of two other books on fantasy and horror in British and North American literature. He has also published twenty articles and a number of chapters in books, and he has edited eight monographs on the same topics. Martin has also published five novels and various short stories, and he is the translator of 23 books (from English, Swedish and Norwegian into Spanish) that cover the genres of the novel, essay, drama and graphic novels, among these four posthumously published books by J.R.R. Tolkien for Minotauro. He has coordinated eight international conferences on fantasy literature and art.