Mónica Jato

Her research focuses on new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Spanish exile culture and to the condition of exile more generally. She is particularly interested in exploring the different cultural strategies used by migrants to adapt to radical changes in their spatial environment and to transform the at times dehumanizing spaces of exile into ‘places’ as sites of cultural resistance. She is also interested in problematizing Spanish twentieth century literary historiography by introducing new perspectives into its canon and producing scholarly editions of underrepresented women’s voices.

Selected recent publications

El lenguaje bíblico en la poesía de los exilios españoles de 1939 (Reichenberger, 2004)

María Beneyto, El laberinto de la palabra poética (Institución Alfonso El Magnánimo)

El éxodo español de 1939: una topología cultural del exilio (Brill, 2019).

Fractured Frontiers: The Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain (Camden House, 2020)

Silvia Mistral. Éxodo. Diario de una refugiada española (Cuadernos del Vigía, 2021)

Silvia Mistral, Madréporas (Cuadernos del Vigía, 2019),

Diario de un retorno: Correspondencia entre Cecilia G. de Guilarte y Silvia Mistral (Ulises, 2015)

Cecilia G. de Guilarte’s Un barco cargado de… (Renacimiento, 2012)

María Beneyto’s Cuentos para días de lluvia (Institución Alfonso El Magnánimo, 2012).