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Rosa María Díez Cobo is an assistant professor in the Department of Philology at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), she previously developed her academic career at the Universidad de Burgos. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English Philology and Hispanic Philology, and earned her PhD from the Universidad de León with the dissertation "La sátira en la novela posmoderna de las Américas. Ex-centricidades de un género literario" ("Satire in the Postmodern Novel of the Americas: Ex-centricities of a Literary Genre"). Her research output comprises roughly 50 academic publications, including three books, around twenty book chapters published by prestigious publishing houses, and fifteen peer-reviewed journal articles. One of her primary research lines explores the relationship between the spectral and space, featuring monographs such as Arquitecturas inquietantes. Antología de relatos de casas encantadas (Eolas, 2022) and La (ir)realidad imaginada: Aproximaciones a lo insólito en la literatura hispanoamericana (Universidad de León, 2015, co-edited with Inés Ordiz), alongside various articles and book chapters. She also co-edited the special issue "Manifestaciones del monstruo en la ficción contemporánea" (Brumal, 2022). She has undertaken research stays at the Freie Universität Berlin, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Oxford, as well as postdoctoral periods at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina) and the University of California, Riverside (USA). Supported by MAEC/AECID grants, she completed teaching assignments at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (2007) and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (2009–2010).

eliosmen@ucm.es
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Elios Mendieta holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Universidad de Málaga. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research focuses on literary theory, comparative literature, contemporary spanish literature, and comparative media. He is the author of the books Paolo Sorrentino (Cátedra, 2022) and Memoria y Guerra Civil en la obra de Jorge Semprún (Guillermo Escolar, 2023), and regularly contributes to media outlets and cultural journals such as El Confidencial, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, and Letras Libres. He has completed research and teaching stays at institutions including the New York University, the University of California, Davis, the University of Tartu, and Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata. Spectrality is one of his recent areas of study, on which he has published several articles.

claudiatoda@usal.es
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Claudia Toda Castán holds bachelor’s degrees in Translation and Interpreting and in German Philology from the Universidad de Salamanca, where she also earned her PhD in Translation. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the Universidad de Salamanca. Her teaching focuses on translation, particularly between German and Spanish. Her research centers on literary translation and translation pedagogy, topics on which she has published numerous articles and book chapters with high-impact journals and publishers. Her teaching and research are enriched by her active career as a professional literary translator. She has translated more than twenty titles, featuring modern classics such as Stefan Zweig and Marlen Haushofer, as well as best-selling contemporary authors like Charlotte Link and Kerstin Gier. Her engagement with spectrality is channeled through literary translation.

ivan.villanueva@upc.pe
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Iván Villanueva-jordán is a research professor in the Department of Professional Translation and Interpreting at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). He earned his PhD in Applied Languages, Literature, and Translation from the Universitat Jaume I in 2021. He holds a master’s degree in Cultural Studies (2014) and a postgraduate diploma in Gender Studies (2011) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After seven years as a lecturer and coordinator for the Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Translation and Interpreting at UPC, he was appointed Full-Time Researcher at the institution. Parallelly, between 2015 and 2017, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the translation programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (California, USA) and as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the international research group TRAMA (2022–2023). Currently, he is a member of the research groups MAD (UV) and GISTT (UCM).
His research focuses on audiovisual translation, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture. He is the author of Traducción audiovisual y teleficción queer: teoría y metodología (UPC Press, 2021) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Translation, Gender, and Sexuality (Palgrave Macmillan). He is currently working on his book Queer Audiovisual Translation: Methods, Theories and Applications (Routledge). He approaches spectrology through the notions of repetition and queer spectralities.

Anna Lluch holds a bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Universitat Jaume I, with an Erasmus+ exchange at Heidelberg University (Germany). Two years after graduating, she completed a master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona, where she was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award for Best Gender-Perspective Master’s Thesis for her work titled Feminist Literary Translation: The Case of Simone de Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe.
She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Universitat de València with a thesis titled Hauntological Literary Translation: The Reception, Translation, and Recovery of Beat Women Writers in Spain. She previously worked as a language assistant for the Spanish Ministry of Education in Innsbruck (Austria), as a Catalan lecturer at University College Dublin and Maynooth University (Ireland). She has also worked as a literary translator and copyeditor for Catalan publishing houses, as well as for the IVAM (Institut Valencià d'Art Modern) and the EACC (Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló). Her research interests include gender studies and deconstructive literary translation studies.

PhD student (Universitat de València).