Óscar Ortega Montero

Óscar Ortega Montero is an Adjunct Lecturer in the English literature section of the English and Modern Foreign Languages Department at the University of Barcelona. He has lectured on Postcolonial Studies, teaching Història i Cultures Postcolonials and El Món Postcolonial Anglòfon, and Història i Cultures del EUA.

He is currently completing his Ph.D. degree, which focuses on neocolonial practices, indigenous rights over land and resource control and ownership in the Niger Delta (Nigeria) through the analysis of postcolonial creative writing and filming. His research interests include Postcolonial Studies, with a particular emphasis on African literatures and cultures, Environmentalism, Identity, Gender and Film Studies.

Óscar is a member of the Centre for Australian and Transnational Studies, a UB-based interdisciplinary research centre, and is also a member of the UAB-based research group RATNAKARA, a group devoted to the study of literature and cultures of the Indian Ocean.

PUBLICATIONS

MA thesis In the Sweet Balance of Dominican-American Identity: Diasporic Imaginary, Gender and Politics in Junot Díaz’s "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (2007)

"Historias del 'oro negro' en Nigeria" .  Review in Spanish of  Tony Nwaka's Lords of the Creek (2015) Wiriko. Artes y Culturas Africanas

Memorias del apartheid: testimonios de la infancia de Trevor Noah, (2018) Wiriko. Artes y Culturas Africanas