Joan Elies Adell i Pitarch
Joan Elies Adell i Pitarch is a Catalan-language poet and essayist.Biography
Joan Elies Adell was born in Vinaròs, Baix Maestrat, Castellón Province, Valencian Community. A graduate in audiovisual communication with a doctorate in Catalan philology, he is a professor of philology at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, and of literary theory at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona. At present, he is the Director of "Espai Llull", Office of the Government of Catalonia in the Sardinian city of Alghero.
He has written on literary theory, cultural theory, Catalan literature and music, and is part of Hermeneia, a research project at the Open University of Catalonia, dedicated to the investigation of the relationships between new technologies and literary studies.Poetry
- La matèria del temps
- Ocèa immobil
- A curt termini
- Un mateix cel
- Encara una olor, which won the Alfons el Magnànim prize, 2003)
- La degradacio natural dels objectes.
- Pistes falses for which he won the Màrius Sampere prize
Essays
- Notes per a una redefinicio dels estudis literaris catalans
- Mètodes i ideologia en la historiografia de la literatura catalana, which won a prize from the Association for the Promotion of Catalan Culture in 1997
- Musica i simulacre a l’era digital
