Charlie Jorge

Charlie Jorge is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), where he teaches 19th century English Literature and English for Specific Purposes focused on Tourism and Hospitality. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and, in 2018, earned his PhD on Comparative Literature and Literary Studies at the University of the Basque Country. His PhD thesis "La figura del héroe en Melmoth the Wanderer, de Charles Robert Maturin" ["The Figure of the Hero in Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Robert Maturin"] was a study in depth of the figure of the hero in Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, a novel that forms the core of his research.

He specializes in Gothic literature, Archetypal Studies and Irish Studies, and has been working for some years on the novels of Gothic authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe or Maria Regina Roche. He has recently published some articles on the archetypes of the Terrible Mother and the Scapegoat in Irish Literature and on the image of the Catholic Church in Melmoth the Wanderer. He has also been working with the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research for several years, where he is in charge of the project "The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture", which has led to the publication of two edited volumes. He is also a member of the consolidated research groups "BRICCS – British and Comparative Cultural Studies: Identities and Representation" and "RELATMIT – Travel Writing and Insular Myth: Perspectives, Contributions and Debates", both belonging to the University of the Balearic Islands, as well as member of the Editing Board of the Journal Cuadernos de Pensamiento.