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); “Cementerios como espacios reales e imaginados en Heldenfriedhof, de Thomas Harlan”. En: Ferrer Mas, Anacleto & Jaume Peris Blanes (coords.): Crimen, Huella y Representación. (Valencia: Shangrila, 2023, pp. 167-194); “Nuevas voces posmigrantes: Hawaii, de Cihan Acar”. En: Maldonado-Alemán, Manuel (coord.): Constelaciones híbridas. Transculturalidad y transnacionalismo en la narrativa actual en lengua alemana. (Madrid: Síntesis, 2023, pp. 363-378); “Buchenwald and Ivan Ivanji’s Impossible Archive: The Voices of the Dead.” Transilvania, no. 2 (2024): 68-77.

Management functions as Vice Dean of Internationalization and Innovation of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication (2012-2024) and as support for internationalization for the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Internationalization and Multilingualism of the Universitat de València.

Ana Giménez Calpe holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication (2004) and German Philology (2011) and a PhD in Languages and Literatures (2014) from the Universitat de València. At the same university she has been a lecturer in German literature since 2016 in the Department of English and German Philology. She has previously worked at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, in the United States, and at the University of Granada. Her research interests focus on the dramatic work of Elfriede Jelinek, intercultural literature, gender studies and the analysis of violence and power relations in literature. She has published several articles and book chapters, as well as the monograph Von Prinzessinnen zu Königinnen. Performative (Ohn)macht in ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen III (Rosamunde)’ and ‘Ulrike Maria Stuart’ by Elfriede Jelinek (Peter Lang, 2019). She is currently a member of the research group “Nuevos paradigmas en la representación cultural de los espacios de violencia de masas: mirar y contar el siglo XX desde el XXI" (PID2022-140003NB-I00), as well as of the teaching innovation group INNOVA-TEA. She is the editor of the journal Quaderns de Filologia.

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.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4575-2279

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Cristina Victoria Paneque de la Torre has a degree in German Philology (2008) and a doctor of languages, literatures, cultures, and her applications (2023) from the University of Valencia. In the same university she has been a professor carried out in the Department of English and German Philology since 2016. He combines his university teaching with teaching in secondary and high school. He is a member of the Riale Permanent Research Group "Germany-España Intercultural Relations" (GIUV2013-078) of the University of Valencia (https://www.uv.es/riale), whose main objective is to site the basis for a comprehensive research of intercultural relations between Spain and German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the Innova-tea. His lines of research focus on contemporary German pop literature, the work of German author Joachim Lottmann, and the study of the genres of self -fiction and the Gonzo Journalism in the twentieth and 21st centuries German literature. She is the author of the thesis "Ist dort ... ha, ha, ha, der ... der 'Erfinder der Deutschen Popliteratur?" " Continuity and evolution of the Neue Deutsche Popliteratur in the work of Joachim Lottmann ”and published several articles and book chapters.