Research Network Chair

Asun López-Varela is Assoc. Prof. and Deputy Head of the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense Madrid. Her research interests are Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, as well as Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics. Vice-Chair at European Commission Unit REA.A2, Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowships, Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC). Since 2007, she coordinates the research program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation SIIM. A proactive member of the profession, currently, López-Varela is Deputy Head of the Department of English Studies at UCM and member of Executive Committee of the Association of Alumni of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University and of the Marie Curie Alumni Association MCAA. Between 2017-2019, López-Varela was President of the European Society of Comparative Literature. She continues to serve annually as an external evaluator for various EU programs. In order to strengthen relations between Europe and Asia, López-Varela coordinates an annual Seminar Series on Cross-cultural dialogue funded by the One Asia Foundation. She is an honorary member of the Poetry Award Committee of Beijing Literature and ArtNetwork and editor and a member of the scientific committee of various academic journals.

New Directions in the Humanities Research Network Advisory Board

  • Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Holger Briel, BNU-HKBU United International College, China
  • David Christian, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Joan Copjec, Brown University, Providence, USA
  • Mick Dodson, The Australian National University, Australia
  • Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
  • Oliver Feltham, American University of Paris, Paris, France
  • William Franke, Vanderbilt University, USA
  • Masahiro Hamashita, Kobe University, Japan
  • Anna Hamling, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  • Ted Honderich, University College, London, UK
  • Eleni Karantzola, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
  • Anna Kiernan, Falmouth University, UK
  • Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
  • Peter Morgan, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Ricardo Morais Xavier, Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Peru
  • Juliet Mitchell,British Psychoanalytical Society, UK
  • Florian Mussgnug, University College London, UK
  • Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Fiona Peterson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • John Regan, Royal Holloway, University of London.
  • Scott Schaffer, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
  • Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford University, USA
  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, USA
  • Zsuzsanna Varga, Univerisity of Glasgow, UK
  • Zhang Zhiqiang, Nanjing University, China

The New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is grateful for the foundational contributions, ongoing support, and continued service of our Advisory Board.