He holds a PhD in Catalan Language and Literature (1999) and a degree in Arts from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Research interests: Literature, cultural sociology, space, and identity. Contemporary Catalan literature. Catalan studies.

He is a member and was a founder of the research group IdentiCat. Llengua, cultura i identitat en l’era global (2021 SGR 01174), and is a founder of Grup d’Estudis de Cultura Catalana (GECC) at UPF. He directs the research project “Writers, Community and Recognition in peripherical Iberian literatures, 1972-2022” (PID2021-127226NB-I00), and also directed “Functions of the Past in Contemporary Catalan Culture: Institutionalization, Representations, and Identity” (FFI2011-24751). Also, he has promoted the International Society for Polysystem Studies (ISPS).

Recent books: Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America (Routledge, with Diana Roig-Sanz), Construir con palabras. Escritores, literatura e identidad en Cataluña, 1859-2019 (Cátedra), and The Barcelona Reader. Cultural Readings of a City (Liverpool UP, with Enric Bou).

Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (1998-2018), where he was in charge of starting up (2000-2004) the Catalan literature website Lletra. He has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University (1996) and Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (2007), Brown University (2011), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (2012), and Trinity College, Hartford (2018). He has also stayed as a researcher at the Unit of Culture Research of Tel Aviv University (2010, with Itamar Even-Zohar), and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Chicago (2017).

He was the Director of Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (2004-2006), and Vicepresident of PEN Català (2018-2022).

Online academic curriculum.