Department: Arts and Humanities Department

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: ALTER Crisis, Otherness and representation

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Email: cprado@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis Embodying translation in modern and contemporary chinese literature (1908-1934 and 1979-1999) a methodological use of the conception of translation as a site 2005. Supervised by Dr. Seán Golden.

Doctor by the University of California with the thesis In Alien Nation: Returned Writers in Modern China 2011. Supervised by Dr. Shu-Mei Shih.

Professor Carles Prado works on the study of the tensions between Chinese and Sinophone literature and the global literary system. His main research interests are in the fields of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature, comparative literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and translation studies.