Toni R. Juncosa
Identifiant ORCID Université de Barcelone, Département des langues et littératures modernes et des études anglaises, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007 Barcelone
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Toni R. Juncosa is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of English Studies and Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on queer literature, with a particular interest in poetry and contemporary US culture. He has written extensively about as well as translated Danez Smith’s poetry. He has been a “la Caixa” research fellow and the recipient of a Black Studies Collaboratory grant from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a member of the research projects “(Un)Housing: Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature” (PID2020-115172GB-I00), and GRC “Creació i pensament de les dones” (2021 SGR 01097).

Important publications:

2023: “And the House Burned Down”: HIV, Intimacy, and Memory in Danez Smith’s Poetry. Open Cultural Studies, 7(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0194

2022: Política de l’oblit i de memoria. In V. Ramírez-Tur (Ed.), Dols Queer: El museu acompanya el dol (pp. 83-99). Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

2021: “My Proof of Life”: HIV as Reification of Black Metaphysics in Danez Smith’s Homie. 452ºF Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 145-161. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.25.8