David Alvarez

Courses
ENG 103 World Literature
ENG 303 Studies in World Literature
ENG 388 Emigration and Immigration in World Literature

Research Commitments
Trans-Mediterranean migrations in literature & the visual arts
World literature of unauthorized mobility
Colonialism & Postcolonialism in Gibraltar

Select Publications since 2016

Unauthorized Crossings of the Strait of Gibraltar in the Arts. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2026.
"'Come, however briefly, in': Ambiguous hospitality in Ingrid de Kok's poetry." Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2025. pp. 53-70.
"Bridging Migratory Fault-Lines: Francis Alÿs's Performance in the Strait of Gibraltar." Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration. Edited by Siobhan Brownlie and Rédouane Abouddahab. Routledge, 2021. pp. 40-55.
"Gibraltarian Grey: Ambiguous Mediterranean-ness in Giordano Durante’s Poetry." SureS (Tangiers). Special issue on Gibraltar and the Mediterranean. Edited by Dr. Jennifer Ballantine-Perera and Trino Cruz. November 2021. pp. 119-140.
A Significant Year, translation of Une année considérable, a political travelogue by Moroccan academic & author, Abdallah Saaf. With an introduction and notes. Seagull Books, 2019.
"The Strait of Gibraltar as Gateway to Hope and as Waterway to Hell." Entry in L’Encyclopédie des Migrants. Rennes: L’Âge de la Tortue. May 2017. Available at https://www.encyclopedia-of-migrants.eu/digital/textes/alvarez/.
"Unstable Vessels: Small Boats in Figurations Of Irregular Migration Across The Strait of Gibraltar" Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival, edited by Lynda Mannik, Berghahn Books, 2016. pp. 116-131.

Education
B.A., Polytechnic of Central London
M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas

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