Lars Troels Møller

PhD project: Lucía Sánchez Saornil – between aesthetic renovation and gender political commitment

Director: Julio Jensen

The focal point of my PhD project is the Spanish poet Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895, Madrid – 1970, Valencia). She is mainly known as a feminist pioneer and organizer within the anarchist movement during the first half of the 20th century. As a poet, however, Sánchez Saornil has not yet been subjected to close scrutiny, which this project seeks to remedy. Lucía Sánchez Saornil started out in modernist poetry sharpening her voice and technical skills within this field. When avant-garde literature was later introduced in Spain, particularly Ultraism by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, she entered the stage as an experimental poet. She wrote metrical poems, prose poems and free verse while incorporating modern topics such as ‘la femme fatale’ and an incipient feminist social critique. Meanwhile, she alternately signed with her own name and the masculine pseudonym Luciano de San-Saor. During the 1930s, she turned towards a politically committed poetry in prosodic verse (the traditional Spanish romance) expressing an increasing religious and existential sentiment after the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, and until her demise.

                      Gender performativity in the poetry of Sánchez Saornil is the project’s main interest.

Feminism and queer theory provide the theoretical framework.

I am affiliated with the research networks ILAS (Iberian and Latin American Studies) and Engerom Environmental Humanities Group.

Primary research areas:

The poet Lucía Sánchez Saornil and the Spanish Silver Age (La Edad de Plata)

Feminism and queer theory

Spanish literature and poetry in the 20^th century

Spanish contemporary history and worker’s movement history with a special interest in the relationship between art and (anti)politics in the anarchist movement

Translation studies and practice 

Literary historiography

2023: PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen

2022: Minor subject in History, University of Copenhagen

2013: Master of Arts in Spanish Language and Culture with concentration in Translation Studies, University of Copenhagen

2010: Bachelor in Spanish and an elective module

2009-10: Studies at the department of Spanish Philology and Comparative Literature at the University of Granada, Spain

2005: Completed studies at the Upper Secondary School Mulernes Legatskole, Odense

Danish, Spanish, English (reading, speaking, writing)

German (reading)