Miguel Ángel Martínez

Miguel Ángel Martínez is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. His research is carried out within the framework of three R&D projects: “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Animal Advocacy Documentary Film in Twenty-First-Century Western Cultures,” coordinated by Claudia Alonso-Recarte (University of Valencia); “Urban Creatures: Interactions between Humans and Animals in Urban Spaces in Spain (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries),” coordinated by Oliver Hochadel (CSIC); and “ITACA: Imaginaries of the Technocene. An Ecocritical Analysis of Visual Culture and the Arts,” coordinated by Daniel López del Rincón (University of Barcelona). In recent years, he curated the series "Presentes densos. En torno a las artes para vivir en un planeta herido" (IVAM, 2020–2022) and published the books Bios: Literatura, enfermedad, formas de vida (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020) and La otra fiesta. Soledad, territorio, formas de vida (IVAM, 2021). His most recent publication is El primer animal visible (Ediciones Menguantes, 2026). He is also currently coordinating "Un regalo puro. Grupo de estudio sobre la vida salvaje," a project whose methodology combines in-person working sessions with expeditions to track wild animals.