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Dr. Daniela Omlor is an Associate Professor of Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. She holds academic affiliations as a Fellow and Tutor in Spanish at Lincoln College and a Lecturer at Jesus College. Her educational background includes M.A. degrees from the University of Oxford (Oxon) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB Brussels), as well as a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews.
Her research focuses on contemporary Spanish literature with emphases on memory, trauma, and exile. Key areas include analysis of Jorge Semprún's works, María Zambrano's cultural agency, and the interplay between historical memory and ethical questions in modern novels by authors such as Javier Cercas and Antonio Muñoz Molina. She has published two monographs and edited volumes, including The Cultural Legacy of María Zambrano (2017) and Jorge Semprún: Memory’s Long Voyage (2014).
Teaching responsibilities include first-year literature courses and specialized modules on Peninsular Spanish Literature (Papers VIII, XI, XII). She supervises graduate students researching modern Spanish literature with focuses on exile, memory, and the Spanish Civil War.
Her publications span articles in journals like MLR, Neophilologus, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, exploring topics from Borges-inspired metafiction to trauma narratives in postwar Spain. She has also translated key essays by María Zambrano on exile and identity.
