JAVIER
SÁNCHEZ-ARJONA VOSER

Lecturer and researcher in the Department of German and Slavic Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, PI of the research project "Goethe en el contexto de la Generación del 27: recuperación y estudio de fuentes inéditas" (Goethe in the context of the 27 Generation: recovery and study of unpublished materials) and member of the research groups GINEDIS (Normativity, Emotions, Discourse and Society) and INCYLHA (Hispano-German Cultural and Literary Exchanges) at the Complutense University of Madrid. His research career also includes institutions such as the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He is a member of the research team for the research programme 'The Philosophical Poem Today'. Rhetorical and Communicative Practices in the Contemporary Crisis of Language" and the Inter-University Programme on the Culture of Legality (4Trust-CM), which is coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III. His research is mainly, though not exclusively, concerned with Goethe's work and its reception and presence in the 20th century, especially in the Spanish intellectual scene of the first third of the 20th century, including the work of José Ortega y Gasset and, more recently, also in the Spanish poets of the Generation of 14 and 27. He has published on writers and thinkers such as Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Josef Winkler, August Stramm, Durs Grünbein and Antonio di Benedetto. He is also the author of several translations from German of both contemporary fiction and 19th century books.