Carlos Mauricio Junco Ezquerra

Carlos Mauricio Junco Ezquerra serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpretation at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, specializing in English Philology within the Arts and Humanities branch.

His research spans diverse areas of American cultural production, with emphases on:

• Literary counterculture movements (e.g., Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg)
• Cinematic representations of war, terrorism, and historical events
• Evolution of superhero narratives in comics
• Puritanical influences in contemporary television
• Political discourse in film (Nixon-Trump comparisons)
• Transatlantic cultural legacies (English piracy in Canary Islands)

Over the past decade, he has supervised 24 theses across 18 bachelor's and 6 master's programs, guiding students through analyses of Orwellian dystopias, Fitzgerald's literary universe, Hemingway's Spanish Civil War narratives, and Hollywood's Oscar trends from 2010-2015. His mentorship consistently bridges literary theory with sociopolitical contexts spanning the 1960s counterculture to modern media landscapes.