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Areas of interest

American literary fiction, violence as aesthetic, psychoanalytic literary criticism, frontier literature, Cormac McCarthy studies, literature and culture, Spanish language learning.

Education

• MA, Humanities, 91ÅÝܽ

Biography

Lorenzo Tomescu is a graduate student in the English Literature department at National Taiwan Normal University, specializing in Literature and Culture Studies. He is currently preparing a dissertation that explores violence as an aesthetic in the fiction literature of the American West and Frontier literature, with a central focus on the works of Cormac McCarthy. Lorenzo has an online publication in the CMA Journal, where his paper examines René Girard’s theory of the scapegoat mechanism in relation to psychoanalytic concepts, existentialism, and mythology, highlighting the connection between individual artistic expression and social consciousness. He is also an intermediate student of Spanish as a Second Language. Lorenzo has worked as a College Instructor at Coquitlam College in British Columbia, Canada, teaching Introduction to Poetry and Short Fiction, English Composition, and Education. His future goal is to work as a professor specializing in American literary fiction, with a particular focus on the fiction of Cormac McCarthy.