| Community | CGScholar

About Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer

Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer is a Visiting Researcher at SLLM, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). After having completed his MSc at Edinburgh University in General & Comparative Literature, he completed his PhD at Autónoma University of..

Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer is a Visiting Researcher at SLLM, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). After having completed his MSc at Edinburgh University in General & Comparative Literature, he completed his PhD at Autónoma University of Madrid (2013) with a dissertation on Contemplative Literature and the poetic works of the Belgium-born Spanish writer Chantal Maillard. He has taught at Jamia Millia Islamia University (New Delhi) and in Complutense University (Madrid), before joining Wits. His areas of interest include contemplative traditions, with a particular emphasis on the forgotten/erased influences between Indian and Western traditions, Spanish & Latin American contemporary poetry, and non-Western forms of contemporaneity in a broader sense. Less