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Xelo Candel Vila is Professor of Spanish Literature in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. She has been a contract professor at Bucknell University (USA), Ohio University (USA) and Saint Louis University (Madrid).

As a guest lecturer, she has given lectures and seminars for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at national and international universities, including: Texas State University (USA), Universitatea Stefan cel Mae (Romania), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina), Universidad de La Plata (Argentina), Postdam Universität (Germany), Kentucky University (USA), Rholand Island University (USA), Bucknell University (USA), Mary Washington University (USA), Montclair University (USA), Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Italy), Instituto Cervantes de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Växjö Universitet (Sweden), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de La Rioja, Universidad de Cádiz, Universidad de Córdoba and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Within the Docentia programme, his teaching evaluation has been rated as excellent.

The lines of research to which he has devoted his scientific production focus on literary modernity, Republican exile, Franco's censorship, the publication of epistolaries and post-war Spanish poetry, the Dictatorship and the Transition. The vast majority of articles in indexed journals are listed in Arts&Humanities Citation Index, SCOPUS, WoS/JCR, ERIH, ISOC, ICYT , MIAR , CIRC, CARHUS+, Latindex, RESH, Mla or DICE. As for book chapters, they are placed in the first level in the SPI ranking, qualified in the index elaborated by the CSIC with a ‘HIGH VALUE’ as Iberoamericana Vervuert, Peter Lang, Renacimeinto, Visor, Ediciones Clásicas, EUDEM, PUV, Trafo Verlag, etc. She is the author and/or editor, among others, of the books: Victoriano Crémer y José García Nieto. Epistolario inédito (1944-1976) (2023); Mi lado izquierdo de Rafael Fombellida (2021); Entresiglos: Del siglo XX al XXI. Estudios en homenaje al profesor Joan Oleza (2019), Versiones y Subversiones de Max Aub (2016); Los Sesenta. Revista literaria. México, 1964-1965 (2015); Epistolario entre Max Aub y Vicente Aleixandre (2014); El libro de las baladas y Romances de colorido (2012); Luis Rosales, memoria encendida de un poeta (2012); Luis Rosales. El contenido del corazón (2010); El romántico ilustrado. Imágenes de Luis García Montero (2009); De lo vivo a lo pintado. La poética realista de Max Aub en el ámbito de la Modernidad literaria (2008); Luis Rosales después de Luis Rosales (2005); El realismo dialéctico en las poéticas de Luis Rosales, Ángel González y Luis García Montero (2003); La casa encendida, by Luis Rosales (2022 and 2002); Versiones y subversiones, in Obra Completa de Max Aub (2001) and Diario de Djelfa, by Max Aub (1998). He is currently preparing the edition of Verbo. Cuadernos literarios, Alicante, 1949-1963 and is coordinating the edition of Volume XIII of Obras Completas de Max Aub. Epistolario entre Max Aub y los poetas españoles.

            She was curator of the literary exhibition Luis Rosales. El contenido del corazón, held in Madrid from 29 April to 6 June 2010, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the Granada poet Luis Rosales. The exhibition was subsidised by the Government of Spain. Ministry of Culture, La Casa Encendida-Obra Social Caja Madrid and the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC) in collaboration with the Archivo Histórico Nacional and the Centro Andaluz de las Letras.  The exhibition toured twice: once to the Hospital Real in Granada and once to the Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester in Santiago de Compostela.  He edited and coordinated the book Luis Rosales. El contenido del corazón (Ministry of Culture, 2010) with all the unpublished material found in the Historical Archive. This volume was a finalist for the ‘Top Applications Award 2010’ at the Milan Triennale for the best book published in Europe that year (www.fedrigoni.es).

            She has directed the research project for consolidated research groups AICO Escrituras de la identidad en tiempos de conflicto: Max Aub y la memoria generacional, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana, Consellería de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital (Valencian Regional Government, Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society) which involved 11 researchers from national and international universities. She has also participated as a researcher in the R&D projects: ‘Poéticas de la Transición (1973-1982)’ REF. FFI2017-84759-P (AEI/FEDER, EU), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; ‘Proyecto Prometeo 2016/1333 para grupos de investigación de excelencia Max Aub y las confrontaciones de la memoria histórica’, Consellería d'Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport; ‘Proyecto Poéticas del 50 proyecciones y diversificaciones’ (2013-2016) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; ‘Poetas del 50, textos y contextos’, Ministry of Science and Innovation; ’Fuentes archivísticas para el estudio del exilio republicano de 1939: State of the question’, Ministry of the Presidency of the Spanish Government (grants for activities related to the victims of the civil war and Francoism); “The second generation of the 1939 Republican exile in Mexico through the film En el balcón vacío”, Ministry of the Presidency of the Spanish Government (grants for activities related to the victims of the civil war and Francoism); ‘Mujeres que escriben, mujeres que leen’, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research anf Higher Education (STINT); Växjo Universitate (2005-2009) or ’Estudio y edición del teatro hispánico del siglo XVI (Generalitat Valenciana) as well as several research projects granted by Saint Louis University in 2006 and 2008. He has participated in 6 teaching innovation projects: Disabilities Services; WEB CT; Blackboard Learning System; Student Learning Outcomes Committee Responsibilities; Voces y letras contra la violencia: imaginarios literarios y creación en videoarte and the digital edition project of the comedy La traición en la amistad by María de Zayas.Teatro clásico: creación de materiales docentes multimedia, 2012.

As a lecturer, she has participated in more than 70 conferences, most of them as an invited speaker, and has been Director, Member of the Executive Committee or of the Organising Committee in 21 national and international conferences, among them: Civil conflict and historical memory: rewriting the past, (2019); Entresiglos. Literature and History. Cultura y Sociedad, (2016); Los otros nombres del 50; Luis Rosales. Memoria Encendida de un Poeta; Correspondencias en Arte, Literatura y Pensamiento: 70 años después del exilio republicano español de 1939 (2009); Antonio Gamoneda. La palabra dañada (2009); Fuentes archivísticas para el estudio del exilio republicano de 1939 (2008); Escritoras y compromiso. Literatura española e hispanoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI (2008); Realismo y compromiso en la poesía de los años 80. Homenaje a Luis García Montero (2008); La joven poesía del fragmento y otras poéticas (2007); Jornadas de Poesía en torno a Luis Rosales (2004); Género y Géneros. Escritura y escritoras iberoamericanas (2004); Poesía y cuento españoles: dos géneros en minoría (2004, 2005 and 2006); Al filo del Milenio. Jornadas sobre creación literaria y práctica crítica en la España de los 90s (1993).

     From October 2018 to December 2022 he co-directed Diablotexto Digital. Revista de crítica literaria, a period in which 11 volumes were published.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        He is on the editorial board of 7 quality journals: Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Literaris, Universitat de València since 2016; El Correo de Euclides. Anuario científico de la Fundación Max Aub, since 2011; Astorica. Revista de estudios astorganos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, since 2012; Lingue e Linguaggi de la Università del Salento (Italy) since 2012; Revista Migraciones&Exilios. Cuadernos de AEMIC since 2008; Diablotexto Digital. Revista de Crítica literaria; Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica de la Universidad de La Rioja, since 2015. He collaborates in the regular activity of evaluating articles in journals of recognised quality: Revista de estudios poéticos Prosemas, Universidad de Oviedo; Ámbitos. Revista de Estudios de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Córdoba; Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica de la Universidad de La Rioja; Revista Lingue e Linguaggi at Università del Salento in Italy.

As a poet he has published the books Mientras las nubes arden, Renacimiento, 2018; Hueco. Mundo solo, Renacimiento, 2013 (Valencian Critics' Prize, 2014); La arena, Madrid, Torremozas, 2007 and A destiempo, Zaragoza, 2003 (Miguel Labordeta Prize, 2002).

He currently coordinates the Aula de Poesía at the Universitat de València.