Ana R. Calero Valera is Senior Lecturer of German Philology at the University of Valencia. She presented her doctoral thesis "Las obras de Heiner Müller en torno a Shakespeare: reescritura paródica" in 2001, and she obtained the extraordinary doctorate award in 2004. Since 2005, she has been a member of several research projects on contemporary and postdramatic theater in German language. Since 2017, she is a member of the research team REPERCRI: https://repercrirg.com/es/equipo-de-investigacion/ana-rosa-calero-valera/. She undertook research visits to German and American universities (Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz, Humboldt Universität-Berlin, Albert Ludwigs Universität-Freiburg, University of Virginia-Charlottesville).

Along with Carmen Plaza Blázquez she has co-authored translations into Spanish, such as Una herencia peligrosa (Gefährliche Verwandtschaft) by Zafer Şenocak (Editorial Pre-Textos, 2009). Her research interests lie in literature in German language of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a specialisation in: The First World War and the interwar period, the literature of (post-)migration and refugees, studies on post-memory and contemporary theater.

Some of her latest publications are: „Glokalisierungsprozesse auf der Bühne: Karagöz, Keloglan und Perikızı“ (Lendemains, 2016, pp. 54-63); ¿A quién pertenecen los muertos? Su memoria y descanso en la literatura. Quaderns de Filologia – Estudis Literaris 2019: 24 (coedición con Olga Hinojosa Picón y Olaf Müller); “Diálogo entre memorias: perpetradores y víctimas en Brief in die Auberginenrepublik de Abbas Khider“. (Revista de Filología Alemana, 27, 2019, pp. 117-130); “Cemeteries as Sites of Memory of the First World War Dead”. En: Geographies of Perpetration. Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence (Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 75-88); “Vivir y viajar peligrosamente: Ilsa Barea-Kulcsar y la Telefónica”. En: Grenzen überschreiten / Traspasando fronteras (Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2021, pp. 171-181); “Literarische Rekonstruktion von NS-Zwangsarbeit in Natascha Wodins Sie kam aus Mariupol und Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel“. En: Arbeitswelten von gestern bis heute (Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 37-51).

Currently she combines teaching and research with management functions as Vice Dean of Internationalization and Innovation of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, and as support for internationalization for the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Internationalization and Multilingualism of the Universitat de València.

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Brigitte Jirku, PhD in German Philology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (1990). She has studied German and French philology and has taught at several universities, especially in the United States. She currently works as a Professor of German Literature in the “Departament of English and German Philology”. In the last twenty years she has carried out numerous research stays in German and Austrian universities and is a senior collaborator with the Elfriede Jelinek Forschungszentrum (Universität Wien).

Her recent research has focused on the study of gender discourses in relation to discourses of power and violence in German-language literature. In addition, her work on literary spaces exploring memories of collective and individual violence has led her to analyze the victim-perpetrator paradigm and its redefinition in contemporary German-language literary texts.

She has been principal investigator of R&D research projects on the study and reception of German-language postdramatic theater (2006-2011) and is currently a member of the research project on contemporary representations of perpetrators of mass crimes (www.repercrirg.com).

Author and co-editor of several publications on autobiographical discourses and the representation of women and womanhood in the 18th-21st centuries, gender studies in German-language literature and on the representation of violence in literature and media. Since 2017 she is co-editor of the collection "Signatures of Violence. Studies in Literature and Media" (Peter Lang) and member of several scientific committees.

Professor of German Philology at the Universitat de València

PhD thesis (2022): Die 'Blumen der Tugend' des Heinrich Schlüsselfelder. Edition und Untersuchung einer frühneuhochdeutschen Übersetzung des 'Fiore di Virtù' aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.

Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teaching Training, in German (2015-2017)

Master’s Degree in Language and Literature Research (2012-2013)

Licenciatura (five-year degree) in German Philology (2004-2009)