Lars Troels Møller

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PhD project: Lucía Sánchez Saornil – between aesthetic renovation and gender political commitment

 

Director: Julio Jensen

 

The focal point of my PhD project is the Spanish poet Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895, Madrid – 1970, Valencia). She is mainly known as a feminist pioneer and organizer within the anarchist movement during the first half of the 20th century. As a poet, however, Sánchez Saornil has not yet been subjected to close scrutiny, which this project seeks to remedy. Lucía Sánchez Saornil started out in modernist poetry sharpening her voice and technical skills within this field. When avant-garde literature was later introduced in Spain, particularly Ultraism by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, she entered the stage as an experimental poet. She wrote metrical poems, prose poems and free verse while incorporating modern topics such as ‘la femme fatale’ and an incipient feminist social critique. Meanwhile, she alternately signed with her own name and the masculine pseudonym Luciano de San-Saor. During the 1930s, she turned towards a politically committed poetry in prosodic verse (the traditional Spanish romance) expressing an increasing religious and existential sentiment after the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, and until her demise.

                      Gender performativity in the poetry of Sánchez Saornil is the project’s main interest.

Feminism and queer theory provide the theoretical framework.

 

I am affiliated with the research networks ILAS (Iberian and Latin American Studies) and Engerom Environmental Humanities Group.

 

Primary fields of research

Primary research areas:

The poet Lucía Sánchez Saornil and the Spanish Silver Age (La Edad de Plata)

Feminism and queer theory

 

Fields of interest

Spanish literature and poetry in the 20^th century

Spanish contemporary history and worker’s movement history with a special interest in the relationship between art and (anti)politics in the anarchist movement

Translation studies and practice 

Literary historiography