Mercè Picornell

Mercè Picornell is a Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics. Her academic work bridges Catalan literature with broader theoretical frameworks like subalternity, affect theory, and posthumanism, often examining tourism's impact on island identities through literary and cultural analysis.

• PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2003)
• Invited researcher at Universidad de Chile (2012) and University of Cambridge (2010)

Her research emphasizes:

• Subaltern voices in Catalan and Latin American literature
• Ecocritical analysis of tourist locations
• Temporalities of performative cultural practices
• Intersections between graphic narratives and medical humanities

Recent publications focus on post-pandemic tourism imaginaries and affective subaltern poetics, with keywords spanning Catalan literature, cultural geography, and posthumanist theory. She received funding from Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics (2022) for research on local resistance in Mallorca.

As co-editor of special issues in Kamchatka and Catalan Review, she has shaped academic discourse on experimental poetry and Iberian-Latin American cultural connections.