New Directions in the Humanities Research Network

Editor

Asun Lopez-Varela

Asun Lopez-Varela

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Asun López-Varela is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense Madrid, and Vice-Chair at European Commission Unit REA.A2, Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowships, Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC). Her research interests are Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, as well as Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics. Since 2007, she has coordinated the research program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation SIIM. López-Varela proactive member of the profession, and is currently Deputy Head of the Department of English Studies at UCM and a member of the 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. 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.

Editorial Board

  • Aurelio Solver Agcaoili, University of Hawaii, USA
  • Narvika Bovcon, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Pedro Corga de Barros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • William Cummings, University of South Florida, USA
  • Emilia Di Rocco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Anna Hamling, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  • Eleni Karantzola, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
  • Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  • Anna Kiernan, University of Exeter, UK
  • Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, USA
  • Luigi Marfè, University of Padua, Italy
  • Áine McGillicuddy, Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Nikica Mihaljevic, University of Split, Croatia
  • Francesca Medaglia, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Maria do Rosario Monteiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Alison Downham Moore, Western Sydney University, Australia
  • Ricardo Morais Xavier, Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Peru
  • Peter Morgan, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Federica Perazzini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Fiona Peterson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Toni Popović, University of Split, Croatia
  • Nicole Roberts, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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