Mr. Antonio Gomez-Moriana

Antonio Gómez-Moriana, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, is an internationally respected scholar in the fields of Spanish and Latin American Literatures, genre theory, sociocritism and theory of discourse. His books include a study of the Spanish writer Unamuno, a coauthored study of Lazarillo de Tormes, and a study of Lope de Vega. He made a major impact on literary theory with his "La subversion du discours rituel" (1985) and several related articles in which he formulated a coherent theoretical approach and a highly efficient methodology which allows him to analyse the tension that exists between a literary text and the many concomitant and conflicting discourses of a non-literary nature that affect its production and reading (historical, legal, philosophical, or even merely bureaucratic discourses).

On the basis of this work, Dr. Gómez-Moriana became co-founder and co-director of the important series « L'univers des discours » currently published by Les Editions Balzac, with over 50 volumes to date devoted to the theory of genre and analysis of discourse. He was also a moving force behind a group of scholars at the Université de Montréal working on « Marginalisation et marginalité dans les pratiques discursives » . With Marc Angenot, MSRC, and Régine Robin, MSRC, he was co-founder of the Interuniversity Research Center CIADEST (Centre Interuniversitaire d'analyse des discours et sociocritique des textes) of Montréal. His most recent book is "Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism. The Spanish Golden Age" (University of Minnesota P, 1993).
He was 'directeur fondateur' of the Department of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, and is presently professor of interdisciplinary studies at Simon Fraser University.