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Esther Igual Lafuente holds a degree in Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation from the University of Valencia. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Research in Languages and Literatures (UV) and the online Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching (UOC). She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of French and Italian Philology at the University of Valencia thanks to an Atracció de Talent contract. Her thesis, supervised by Ignacio Ramos Gay and Claudia Alonso Recarte, examines the representation of non-human animals in underground cinema in France and Great Britain.
She has collaborated in organising research seminars and has participated in numerous national and international conferences and seminars, such as the Eastern Kentucky University Living with Animals International Conference (2025), the III CULIVIAN Conference (2025), the Compassionate Futures conference at Pompeu Fabra University (2025), the Cultural Linguistics International Conference, and the International Seminar Animal Archivo y Memoria (2025), among others. She has also been an invited speaker at universities such as the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Angers, and the University of Nantes.
She has carried out several research stays in Nantes, Lausanne, and Angers —the latter funded by the French Embassy in Spain and AFUE. She has collaborated on various research projects, such as the Interuniversity Research Project DITAPE (Teaching and Research in Machine Translation and Post-editing, 2021/GV/080), Ethics and Aesthetics of Animal Rights Documentary Cinema in Twenty-First-Century Western Cultures (CIAICO/2023/046), and Experiències educatives interdisciplinàries al voltant de la qüestió animal. Creativitat i pensament crític (3899028, PIEE 2025–2026).
In the field of continuing education, she has completed specialised programmes in egalitarian masculinities, non-sexist language, and analysis of the university environment in matters of equality. Finally, she is a member of the scientific committee as a reviewer for journals such as Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, a publication awarded the FECYT Quality Seal and ranked Q1 in SJR.