Asun López-Varela
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate is Assoc. Prof. in the Department of English Studies at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain. In 2007 she created the research program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation SIIM which she still coordinates. The program has received funding from national and international sources. López-Varela has been awarded various grants, including a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship at Harvard University and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. A proactive member of the profession, López-Varela has been Vice-Chair at Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowships, Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC) and is a member of Marie Curie Alumni Association MCAA. She was also President of the European Society of Comparative Literature and is Research Chair of the New Directions in the Humanities Network since its creation. She has been founding editor of the journals of the network and continues to be chief editor of The International Journal of Literary Humanities (H-Index: 3- SCImago Journal Rank Q2; SJR 0.11) as well as its Spanish counterpart Revista Internacional de Humanidades. López-Varela coordinates the annual Seminar Series on Cross-cultural dialogue and Sustainability of the Eurasia Foundation. She has supervised 9 PhD dissertations. Her activities as editor and member of scientific committees in various academic journals are extensive and can be seen in her personal webpage at SIIM
Research lines: Critical Theory and Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics, Mythcriticism, Green Humanities