Juan Luis Conde

Juan Luis Conde is Professor of Latin Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He studied Classical Philology at the University of Salamanca, where he obtained a PhD (1990). He has developed his academic career at the Complutense University of Madrid since 1987. His most recent publications of a scientific nature focus on rhetoric and discourse studies, particularly political discourse. The most relevant contributions include La lengua del imperio. La retórica del imperialismo en Roma y la globalización (which won the II Premio de Investigación Social Rosa María Calaf in 2008), and Armónicos del cinismo. Discurso, mito y poder en la era neoliberal (2020). In recent years he has devoted his attention to comparative rhetoric, publishing several articles on classical Chinese rhetoric. A forthcoming book intends to bring together the most interesting aspects of this work. He has always been committed to literary writing. To date he has published a collection of short stories, three novels as well as an autobiographical narrative entitled El abrigo de Thomas Mann (2016). In the field of the didactics of creative writing, his most outstanding result has been the book El segundo amo del lenguaje, first published in 1997 and, in an enlarged edition, in 2001. As a translator, he has devoted specific attention to the work of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus (I-II Century A.D.) and has made contributions to the translation of original Chinese rhetorical texts from the Warring States period hitherto unpublished in Spanish. He is currently member of the Directive Board of the Spanish Society for Rhetoric (Se-Ret).