[Curriculum Vitae in PDF]

Doctor in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona. University full professor of Spanish Literature and Compared Literature of the Humanities Department in the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

He is a funding member of the Humanities Faculty, of which he has been a que ha sido vice-dean; member of the research commission of the Humanities Department, of which he has been secretary; Culture Delegate and member of the Board of Management of the Pompeu Fabra University.

He has been the promoter of the contemporary arts space UPF Art Track. Creator and Director of the International Master in Publishing and Editing of the BSM-UPF, which celebrates its XXV aniversary this year, and co-director of the International Forum of Editors Edita Barcelona, organized by the Gremi d’Editors de Catalunya, the Master in Publishing and Editing of the BSM-UPF, the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España, the Ajuntament de Barcelona, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ministerio de Cultura and the UNESCO.

He has been a literary critic of Quimera, El Periódico de Catalunya, ABC, Revista de Libros y Letras Libres. Since 2000 he has been a literary critic of the culture supplement Babelia of the newspaper El País. He has written in the most important international Hispanism journals (Ínsula, Revista de Occidente, Journal of Hispanic Philology, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, La Torre, etc.), and many books, including a critical edition of Vladimir Nabokov, ¡Mira los arlequines!, Cátedra, Madrid, 2001. (3ª edición, 2018); a critical edition of Patrick Modiano, La hierba de las noches, Cátedra, Madrid, 2015; a critical edition of Italo Calvino, Palomar, Cátedra, Madrid, 2017; a critical edition of Eduardo Mendoza, Una comedia ligera, Cátedra, Madrid, 2019; Calderón y la máquina barroca, Rodopi, Amsterdam-Nueva York, 1999; Estudios sobre Calderón, Istmo, Madrid, 2000; Lecturas de ficción contemporánea. De Kafka a Ishiguro, Cátedra, Madrid, 2008 (2ª edición, 2015); El desguace de la tradición. En el taller de la narrativa del siglo XX, Cátedra, Madrid, 2011 (3ª edición, 2018); Continuidad y ruptura. Una gramática de la tradición en la cultura contemporánea, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2013 y La imaginación en la jaula. Razones y estrategias de la creación coartada, Cátedra, Madrid, 2015. The previous four books form El artista en sus laberintos: una tetralogía de la creación contemporánea.

He has been a visiting lecturer in Duke University and University of Chicago (USA), in Université de Montréal (Canada) and in Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy), and a resident researcher in the Real Academia de España en Roma. He was an officer and literary director of the Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells, S.A. de Barcelona (1985-2000).