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MARÍA ROSA ÁLVAREZ SELLERS. PhD in Philology and Degree in Hispanic Philology (Universitat de València) and Portuguese Philology (Universidad de Salamanca), she combines both specialities in her research activity.

Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology attached to the Department of Spanish Philology (Universitat de València), she teaches in all the degrees of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, although the Minor in Portuguese is included in the Degree of Modern Languages and their Literatures.

Acting Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication (University of Valence, Spain).

Coordinator of the Academic Committee of the Degree in Modern Languages and their Literatures.

She has been Vice-Dean of Culture, Equality, Inclusive Policies and Sustainability (27/3/2024 to 9/2/2025).

Coordinator of the Area of Portuguese and Basque Philology at the University of Valencia.

She is a member of the Board of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication and participates in numerous university committees and university entrance exams.

Lines of research: Comparative literature – Critical edition – Reception – Translation – Dictionaries – Theater – Actors – Spanish literature – Golden Age – Calderón de la Barca – Lope de Vega – Agustín Moreto – Portuguese literature – Brazilian literature – Gil Vicente – António Ferreira – Bernardim *Ribeiro – Guimarães Rosa – Iberian interludes

She has published works dedicated to the Spanish theater of the Golden Ages (La tragedia española en el Siglo de Oro: La vida es sueño o el delito del nacimiento [National Essay Award "Becerro de *Bengoa"], Diputació Foral de *Alava; Análisis y evolución de la tragedia española en el Siglo de Oro: la tragedia amorosa, Kassel, Reichenberger, 3 vols.) and in Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Edition of Literatura portuguesa y literatura española: influencias y relaciones, University of Valencia; Edition of Castro by António Ferreira, Universidade da Coruña-Xunta de Galícia; João Guimarães Rosa: travesías por la ficción y la palabra, Vigo, Academia del Hispanismo), in addition to this she has participated in numerous international Conferences and collaborated in various national and foreign publications and magazines. She has published books, critical editions and around one hundred articles and book chapters. In 2019 she published two critical editions: El bruto de Babilonia, by Matos Fragoso, Moreto and Cáncer (Ed. Reichenberger) and the Entremés de El día de compadres (Ed. University of Lisbon). In 2024 she published a critical edition of La tragedia del duque de Berganza, by Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (Ed. Reichenberger).

She has received scholarships to complete his academic training in Belgium, Italy, the United States and Portugal and has given classes and lectures at the universities of Coimbra, Lisbon, Bordeaux and Toulouse.

She is a member of the Centro de Estudos de Teatro (CET) of the Universidade de Lisboa and of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (CLP) of the Universidade de Coimbra, as well as of the international research groups ‘Proteo-Moretianos’, ‘Escrituras Literarias: Patrimonio y Actualidad’ and ‘Circe-Early Modern European Theatre on Screen’.

She has participated in international research projects (R&D), including two European projects: NIFLAR (Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research), directed by the Universiteit Utrecht (2008-2010), dedicated to teaching innovation in foreign languages and financed by the European Union (Lifelong Learning Programme Sub-programmes - Multilateral Projects, Networks, Accompanying measures) and Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español. Textos e Instrumentos de Investigación (Consolider) (TC/12) (Ministry of Science and Innovation. Plan Nacional I+D+I), in which 49 universities participated. The most recent projects have been Escritura teatral colaborativa en el Siglo de Oro: análisis, interpretación y nuevos instrumentos de investigación (Centenario de Agustín Moreto, 1618-2018), 2018-2010 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and FEDER Funds. Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia), Entremezes ibéricos: inventariação, edição e estudo (ENTRIB), 2018-2021 (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) and ERDF funds (Lisbon Regional Operational Programme) and El teatro áureo en colaboración: textos, autorías, ámbitos literarios de sociabilidad y nuevos instrumentos de investigación (TAC) (Ministry of Science and Innovation. State Programme for the Generation of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&D&I System and the State Programme for R&D&I Oriented towards the Challenges of Society). She is currently part of the EMOTHE project: European Theatre of the 16th and 17th centuries. Heritage and databases (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. European Union).

Expert evaluator of R&D projects: ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva) and AGAUR (Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación).

Expert evaluator of university degrees in Portugal: A3ES (Portuguese Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education).

She participates in evaluation committees of international journals: Hispanic Review, Rilce, Hipogrifo, Anuario Calderoniano, Quaderns de Filologia, MONTI, Límite, Studia Iberica et Americana, Hesperia, Anagnórisis, eHumanista, Abriu, Itinerarios, Dicenda, Celestinesca. Member of editorial committees: Estudios Portugueses y Brasileños; Nueva Revista del Pacífico; Quaderns de Filologia. Profile in International Database: “Who’s who”, IStReS Iberian Studies (Universidade de Lisboa).

Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Valencia, in the Department of Spanish Philology. He was previously a professor for two years at the Université d'Antananarivo (Madagascar).

His main field of research has been the forms and representations of political violence in Latin America and Spain, as well as the construction of social and cultural memory in post-dictatorial societies. He has dedicated several studies to testimonial literature and to contemporary memory cultures. He has published the books La imposible voz. Memoria y representación de los campos de concentración en Chile (2005, Cuarto Propio) e Historia del testimonio chileno. De las estrategias de denuncia a las políticas de memoria (2008, Quaderns de Filologia). He has also studied the relationship between literature and the revolutionary imaginaries in Latin America in the sixties and seventies, from which different publications about the work of Julio Cortázar have emerged, focused on the crossroads between aesthetic autonomy and political revolution. He is currently investigating the relationship between culture and political imagination in Latin America and Spain, with special attention to the dystopian imagination and its relationship with contemporary critical cultures. He has coordinated the collective book Cultura e imaginación política (2018, Rilma2/ADELH).

He is the director of Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, edited by the Department of Spanish Philology of the Universitat de València. In that journal he has published a special issue on "Avatares del testimonio en América Latina: tensiones, contradicciones, relecturas", a dossier on "Creación colectiva, sinautoría y cooperativismo en la cultura contemporánea" and a mongraphic issue "La vía cultural al socialismo. Políticas de la cultura en el Chile de la Unidad Popular", with Loreto López. He has also coordinated the volume "Ficciones inmunitarias. Relatos culturales del contagio y la amenaza" in Papeles del CEIC. International Journal On Collective Identity Research. 

LUZ C. SOUTO holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish and Education from the University of Buenos Aires. In 2015 she earned her doctorate in Spanish from the University of Valencia, where she currently acts as Associate Professor at the Spanish Philology department and coordinates the Teaching Unit of Spanish Literature (2019-2022). 

She is currently the Erasmus coordinator of the Degree in Hispanic Studies.

She is Principal Investigator of the Emerging Research project "Memory Novels LAB: Laboratorio Digital de Novelas sobre Memoria Histórica Española" (GV/2021/183), subsidized by the Generalitat Valenciana.

She has completed three postdoctoral research stays at the Universities of Sao Paulo (Brazil, 2017), Havana (Cuba, 2016), and Mar del Plata (Argentina, 2015), and a graduate stay at National University of La Plata (Argentina, 2014).

Her research primarily concerns historical memory in Spain and Argentina, although her interests extend to modern and contemporary Peninsular and Latin American literatures and cultures, Digital Humanities, and Spanish Golden Age theater. Regarding her main area of interest, she has authored Memorias de la orfandad. Miradas literarias sobre la expropiación/apropiación de menores en España y Argentina (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2019), and co-edited two volumes with Albrecht Buschmann: Decir desaparecido(s). Formas e ideologías de la narración de la ausencia forzada (Lit Verlag, 2019) and Decir desaparecido(s) II: análisis transculturales de la desaparición forzada (Lit Verlag, 2021).

She has also co-authored books on literary and linguistic analysis: Comentario de Textos Hispánicos: Análisis del comentario literario (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017), with David Giménez Folqués, and Comentario de Textos Hispánicos: Análisis del comentario lingüístico (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017), with David Giménez Folqués and Amparo Ricós. She has prepared 20 digital editions of Lope de Vega’s comedies for Artelope Digital Library, which she additionally coordinates. In addition to that, she has published more than forty articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in peer-reviewed journals and books edited in Europe, North America, and Latin-America.

Souto has carried out research and management tasks in four research projects lead by Professor Joan Oleza: Prometeo 2016/133 "Max Aub y las confrontaciones de la memoria histórica", Consolider TC/12. "Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español: Textos e instrumentos de investigación" (CSD2009-00033), "Artelope. Base de datos y argumentos del teatro de Lope de Vega" (FFI 2009-12730 (2010-2012), FFI 2012-34347 (2013-2016)), and the Micro-cluster "Cultura y Sociedad en la era digital" of the VLC Campus. In 2015 she also joined the project "Diálogos transatlánticos: España y Argentina Campo editorial, literatura, cultura, memoria", based in UNLP and lead by Professor Raquel Macciucci.

Souto has coordinated four conferences in Valencia, Berlin, and La Plata, and helped organizing twelve more in Spain and Argentina.

She has coordinated the International Congress Memorias Periféricas de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo: Literaturas, culturas, ideologías (2022).

She presently serves on the editorial and advisory boards of Diablotexto Digital Digital Literary  and Papeles Críticos, and regularly collaborates with arbitrations for national and international peer-reviewed journals and books.