Armando Jesús Pego Puigbó
Armando Pego Puigbó
BA in Hispanic Philology (1993) from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). PhD in Hispanic Philology with Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the same university (1997), with a dissertation on Spanish avant-garde narrative. Predoctoral and postdoctoral research fellow at UCM and at The Warburg Institute (University College London). Former researcher at CSIC-Madrid. Professor at Universitat Ramon Llull since 2004. He is currently Full Professor at URL and Academic Director of the PhD Programme at the Faculty of Philosophy, La Salle – URL.
His research focuses primarily on aesthetics, cultural history, and literary theory and criticism, with special attention to literary genres (narrative, essay, and poetry), as well as to the categories of reading and writing and the spiritual tradition of European modernity. He has devoted numerous studies to authors addressing the key cultural and political issues following the post–May 1968 crisis, both from the Anglo-Saxon tradition (especially George Steiner) and the French tradition (Michel de Certeau and Maurice Blanchot). He has published 12 books and more than one hundred articles and book chapters.
CV – Armando Pego
Full Professor of Humanities
Academic Director of the PhD Programme in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy La Salle
Principal Investigator of the FiloCultura research line within the Research Group on Smart Society, La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull
La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull
Academic background
PhD in Hispanic Philology, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) (Spain), 1997.
BA in Hispanic Philology, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) (Spain), 1993.
Teaching activity
Professor at Universitat Ramon Llull since 2004. His teaching focuses on aesthetics, theory of language, and literary criticism, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture and discursive modalities.
Research activity
His research focuses mainly on aesthetics, cultural history, and literary theory and criticism, with special attention to literary genres (narrative, essay, and poetry), the categories of reading and writing, and the spiritual tradition of European modernity. He has devoted numerous works to authors who have addressed key issues of the cultural and political crisis following May 1968, from both the Anglo-Saxon tradition (George Steiner) and the French tradition (Michel de Certeau and Maurice Blanchot). He has published 12 books and more than one hundred articles and book chapters.
Professional activity
Contributor and columnist in various digital media outlets: El Debate, La Gaceta, The Objective…
Distinctions
Extraordinary Doctoral Award