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Profile of Guillem Colom-Montero

Gillem Colom

Name:

Guillem Colom-Montero

Position:

Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant

Email:

Location:

Room 308

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 382084

I was born in Palma, the capital city of Majorca. In June 2009 I finished my BA in English Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Shortly before completing my BA I was granted a Comenius Assistantship, which is an EU teacher exchange programme. This enabled me to spend my first year as a postgraduate teaching Spanish and Catalan in Edinburgh.

When my placement in Edinburgh finished I came back to Majorca, where I started to look for different options to continue my academic career. Finally, in August 2010 I was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the School of Modern Languages in Bangor University. My PhD focuses on the work of the Catalan writer Quim Monzó, paying special attention to his relation with North-American writers.

Apart from that, I worked as a cultural promoter for the Obra Cultural Balear, the most important cultural association in the Balearic Islands, and for Palma’s City Council as a technician in linguistic normalisation.

International Conferences

  • (2011) 'Quim Monzó i la literatura catalana: de la resistència a la... normalitat?' Seminar of Literary Studies organized by the LiCETC research group (Contemporary Literature: Theoretical and Comparative Studies), hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears. 28th of June, 2011.
  • (2011) 'Quim Monzo's articles on contemporary Catalan politics: portraying the end of a cycle?', at Critical Peninsularisms Conference: Theorizing Nation, Democracy and Culture in Spain Today. University of Newcastle. 13-14th of September, 2011.
  • (2011) Ellipsis, brackets, enumerations, repetitions...: the influence of American writers on Quim Monzó’s (whole) oeuvre, at LVII Anglo-Catalan Society Annual Conference. Queen Mary University of London. 25-27th November 2011

Seminars

  • (2011) 'Discovering the Catalan language and culture', at V International Summer Senior University: Gastronomy and Culture of the Balearic Islands. University of the Balearic Islands. 5th of September, 2011

Reviews

  • (2010) '75è aniversari en un gran moment', in Lluc, Revista de Cultura i d'Idees, 874. Palma, L'Espurna Edicions. October 2010.
  • (2011) 'La importància dels intel.lectuals en la construcció nacional', in Lluc, Revista de Cultura i d?Idees. 877. Palma. L'Espurna Edicions. July 2011