Faculty of Communications and philology

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Research group

Spanish

Literary Studies Group GEL

Academic Unit: Faculty of Communications and philology

Colombian Ministry of Science

A1

Call

894 GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Humanities

Subarea

Languages and literature

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Strategic Focus

The Literary Studies Group (GEL) focuses its work around interdisciplinary literary research in order to build products of new knowledge. The aim of these products is to generate scientific and social innovations, which will position literary studies at an international level.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Critical editions, lexicography, and text interpretation.
Comparative Literature.
Literature, culture, and society.
Literary Theory.
Digital Humanities and Literature.
Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Violence and peace in Colombia: representations in the press and literature.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

Edison Darío Neira Palacio, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Philosophy and Letters.

University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Coordinator's Email

edison.neira@udea.edu.co

Research Group Email

grupogel@udea.edu.co

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg.
Universidad de Sevilla.
Arkansas University.
Regensburg University.
Methodist University of São Paulo.
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
Universidad EAFIT.

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB).
Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
University of Siegen.
Justus Liebig Giessen University (JLU).
Colombia Traditions of the Word Research Group (Grupo de investigación Colombia Tradiciones de la Palabra – CTP).
Regional Language Study Group (Grupo de Estudios Lingüísticos Regionales – GELIR).

Highlighted Projects

Proposal of regionalization of Hispanic Philology, Western sub-region, virtual modality / Spanish as a Foreign Language Online (Call 804 of 2018 of Colombian Ministry of Science), Prof. Edison Neira Palacio.
Speeches and discursive practices. Interdisciplinary studies on the work of Laura Montoya Upegui. Prof. María Eugenia Osorio Soto.
Preliminary study and critical edition of the complete work of Fernando González. First phase, Prof. Edwin Carvajal Córdoba.
Anomie in the crime novel in Spain (1990-2015). Prof. Juan Fernando Taborda Sánchez.
Theoretical and epistemological foundations of understanding as a method. Prof. Raúl Osorio Vargas.
Poshumanism and ancestral culture in the science fiction works of Daína Chaviano, René Rebetez, Angélica Gorodischer and Edmundo Paz Soldán. Prof. Sophie von Werder.
History and Literature in the Middle Ages. Prof. Mario Martín Botero García.

Key Research Findings

Collective books.
Formulation of an undergraduate project in Spanish as a foreign language (online).
Critical editions about: Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Tomás Carrasquilla, César Uribe Piedrahita, Laura Montoya Upegui, and Fernando González Ochoa.
Congreso Medellín Negro (Medellin Negro Congress; 2010-2020: eleven versions have been held so far).