🎉Felicidades to this week’s Author Spotlight, Alessio Piras! Piras’s book review: Barcelona, City of Margins by Olga Sendra Ferrer focuses on the Francoist Barcelona of the 1950s and 1960s, shaping a theory of margins with a vast horizon of application to other cities or epochs in Barcelona. The author analyzes how Sendra Ferrer reads Barcelona through literature and photography, focusing on the representation of marginal people, urban spaces, and their interaction with the city in a moment of change defined as the ‘urban turn.’

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Born and raised in Italy, Alessio Piras holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Pisa. After living and working eight years as administrative assistant in Barcelona, Spain, he decided to return to research and teaching. He is now a Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Literature at the UNM. His research interests are Spanish Cultural Studies, Spanish Civil War Exile, Urban and Border Studies. At SpanPort he teaches Advanced Spanish courses focusing on Literature and Cinema from Spain and Latin America. In Italy, he published crime fiction novels and short stories. Learn more about Alessio and follow him on Twitter!