Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Catalan Studies – Literary Theory
Jesús Revelles Esquirol is an Associate Teacher at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics from the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He graduated in Literary Theory and Humanities from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and obtained a Ph.D. from the same institution with the doctoral thesis “Direcció Lisboa: Portugal en la vida i l’obra de Josep Pla” (2006).
His research focuses on Josep Pla, contemporary nonfictional Catalan prose, the concept of Iberianism and Catalan-Portuguese literary and cultural relations during the 20th century.
Jesús Revelles Esquirol’s contributions to the field of Iberian Studies include publications such as “L’iberisme de Joan Maragall. Un projecte germinador” (2011), “Cambó, Pla, Gaziel i els contacts lusocatalans” (2010), “L’àngel atlàntic. Eugeni d’Ors i Portugal” (2015), “Felanitx-Palma-Lisboa: la implicació balear en la tradició iberista catalana” (2015), “Sepharad com a utopia iberista” (2015), “Missió catalana a Lisboa, Joan Estelrich, 1921” (2016), “Bautizar la utopía: Iberia como solución catalana a España” (2017) and “Humberto Pelágio y las mediaciones luso-catalanas de principios de siglo xx. Una aproximación” (2019).
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