Marcos Centeno is specialised in film and media and Japanese studies, particularly interested in documentary film, memory, transnationality, gender, militant cinema and the representation of minorities mainly the Ainu people, for which he uses contributions from visual anthropology and ethnographic studies. He is currently reserach associate at the Nissan Insitute for Japanese Studies, Univesity of Oxford (Wolfson College). Previously, Centeno worked as lecturer for Birkbeck, University of London, where he acted as the BA  Japanese Studies director. Before that he had been lecturer for the Department of Japan and Korea at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London where he coordinated the MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural and since then, he has been associate researchers at SOAS Japan Research Centre. Centeno has led projects funded by British, Japanese, North American and Spanish institutions. He is PI for TRAMEVIC: Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture funded by Generalitat Valenciana, coordiantor of TRADIASIA (Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia), and has received grants for projects such asTsuchimoto Noriaki's documentary school, by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, Representations of the Ainu people in the UK, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko with colleagues from the UK and funded by institutions such as Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Foundation, etc. and Japanese Transnational Cinema, funded by the Sasakawa and Daiwa foundations, Waseda University and Monbusho (Ministry of Education of Japan). After studying Ainu language and culture in Japan, his research on the visual representation of the Ainu people was awarded by the former Kokoro journal for Japanese Studies, and his full-length documentary, Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014), directed after having worked as a television director, was translated into several languages and received several prize from international film festivals and other institutions (such as the National Museum of Anthropology, CSIC and the Government of the Basque Country). During his doctoral studies, Centeno was a research fellow at the University of Valencia and an associate researcher at the International Institute for Education and Research in Theater and Film Arts at Waseda University, Tokyo,  with periods in France (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) and Germany (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

Other activities

Among his professional activities, Centeno is currently a board member for the AEJE (Asociacion de Estudios Japoneses en España), and external examiner for the Japanese Studies degree programmes at Oxford Brookes University (2021-2025), editorial board member for Mirai. Revista Estudios Japoneses, has been jury member for ICAS/SEPHIS prize for the best books on Asian Studies written in Spanish and Portuguese, Ivan Morris Memorial Prize on Japanese Studies (awarded by the British Association for Japanese Studies), DAAD. German Academic Exchange Service (research fellowship applications),  convenor for EAJS (the European Association for Japanese Studies) Visual Arts section (2019-2023), board member for BIMI (Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image), the Japan Research Center, SOAS. On culture, memory and representation in museums, Centeno has coordinated the Memorial Sites research seminar at Birkbeck Memorial Sites. Acts of Remember through Media and Visual Culture (2022/2023) and is a member of the Repercri group and on transnational cultural circulation he works with Gregal group at the UAB. Also, Centeno has served as a guest lecturer for Summer Schools at Pittsburgh University,  Ochanomizu University, guest lecturer for the Centre for Japanese Studies at Nanzan University, Nagoya (1^st semester 2021/22), and invited to deliver around 60 talks at universities from Latin America, Europe and Japan. Centeno completed undergraduate studies at the University of Valencia (School´s Extraordinary Award) and Japan (Waseda University scholarship).

Supervision

Marcos Centeno welcomes students interested in research in the fields related to Japanese/Asian Cinemas, ethnographic visual culture, documentary films, transculturality, diversity, representation of minorities, and war memory.

Selected Publications

Centeno, M. and Raine, Michael, eds. (2021) "Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode", Arts, 9 (3).

    Centeno, M. and Morita, Nori eds (2020). Japan beyond its Borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media, Tokyo: Seibunsha

Centeno, M. and Morita, Nori, eds. (2020), "Japanese Transnational Cinema", Arts 7(4).

Centeno, M., González, I. and Armendáriz, A. (eds) (2024), The Japanese Documentary Cinema of Haneda Sumiko. Art, Gender, Society, and Culture. London, New York: Routledge (forthcoming).    

Centeno, M. and Torres, L. eds, (2023). ReFocus: The Films of Teshigahara Hiroshi. ReFocus: The International Directors Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming)

Sánchez-Biosca. V. and Centeno, M., eds (2023) Memorialising the Ground Zero. Narrating Sites of Mass Crimes and Genocide through the Camera Lens. Museums and Narratives series. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming)

Centeno, M. (2022). “The Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image”. In David Desser (ed.) Companion to Japanese Cinema. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2022, pp. 271- 293.

Centeno, M. (2021). "1968 And Rural Japan as A Site of Struggle. Approaches to rural landscapes in the history of Japanese documentary film”, The Sixties. A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 28 Nov 2021, vol. 14, issue2, pp. 151-168.

Centeno, M. (2019). “Postwar Narratives through Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen” in Lozano, Artur; Martínez, Dolores and Guarné, Blai (eds.), Persistently Postwar. Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019, pp. 41-62.

Centeno, M. (2018). "Deceiving ‘Primitivism’. Ainu people in 1910s Travelogues”, Annals of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, vol. 18, no1, June 2018.

 Centeno, M. (2018).”The Limits of Fiction in the Japanese Avant-Garde Documentary. The Case of Hōryūji”, Kokoro, no. 27, 2018, pp. 11-19 (Kokoro Journal Prize for the Dissemination of Japanese Culture 2018, awarded by a panel of professors from Japan, Europe and Latin America)

Centeno, M. (2018). 'The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960)'. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, vol.10, 2018, pp 1-15.

Centeno, M. (2018). “Contextualising N. G. Munro’s filming of the Ainu Bear Ceremony”, Japan Society Proceedings, no 154, 2018, pp. 90-106.

Centeno, M. (2017). “Gazes outside the Representation. Early Film Portrayals of the Ainu People", Orientalia Parthenopea, issue 17, 2017, pp. 189-210.

Centeno, M. (2017). “The Fight for the Self-Representation: Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation”, Aphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 13, 2017, pp. 69-89. No overlap.

 Centeno, M. (2015). “Forms of otherness: Representation of Ainu people in Benjamin Brodsky’s travelogues (1918-1919)”, Kokoro, Revista para la difusión de la cultura japonesa, nº 17, 2015, pp.14-22 (Kokoro Journal Prize for the Dissemination of Japanese Culture 2015 by a panel of professors from Japan, Spain and Latin America).

Centeno, M. (2015). Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014, 82min). Documentary on the history of cultural assimilation of the Ainu people. Prizes: Best Full-length Documentary by National Museum of Anthropology and CSIC (The Spanish National Research Council, 2015); Best Film category of “Human Rights”, FICVI México 2014; Best Film category “Interculturality”, Cine Invisible Bilbao, Spain 2014; Best Foregin Director, Zlatna Ethnographic Film Festival, Romania, 2014; Audience Award Clam Festival, Barcelona, 2014; Special Mention Intimate Lens Film Documentary, Italy 2014.Selected in fifty international film festivals. 

Centeno, M. (2011). “Discovering Minorities in Japan: First Korean Representations in Japanese Cinema” in ACCS. The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Osaka, IAFOR, 2011, pp. 125-13

Ingrid García Wistädt holds a degree in German Philology (2000) and English Philology (1998), a diploma in Social Work (1993) and a PhD in Philology (2005) from the Universitat de València. Currently, she is Associate Professor of German Philology, attached to the Department of English and German Philology at the UV. She has participated in numerous research projects and is a member of the permanent research group RIALE (https://www.uv.es/riale) of the UV (GIUV2013-078), whose main activity is to lay the foundations for a comprehensive investigation of intercultural relations between Spain and German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. His main fields of research at present, in addition to those related to the subject of his doctoral thesis (From the Minnesänger to the Romantic artist. Ludwig Tieck's romanticism through the figure of the musician and his literary configuration), are precisely in the field of intercultural relations between Germany and Spain, especially the literature of German travellers in Spain in the 19th century. In the field of teaching, he teaches German literature from its beginnings up to the 19th century. She has also been involved in many management tasks, as well as being a member of the University Senate and the Faculty Board and participating in various academic committees. Between 2006-2018 she was Secretary of the Department of English and German Philology and since 2019 she is Director of the Master's Degree in Research in Languages and Literatures.

Isabel Gutiérrez Koester studied German and English Philology at the Universitat de València and presented her doctoral thesis on female water myths in German literature in 2000. She was awarded both the Extraordinary Degree and Doctorate Prizes. Since 2002 she has been a lecturer in German Philology at the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya of the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació and concentrates her teaching mainly in the field of twentieth-century German literature and the audiovisual arts.

Her most recent research focuses on Spanish-German intercultural relations, developed in the framework of several funded research projects related to German travellers in Spain, images, stereotypes and cultural topographies. These include "German Travellers in Spain. Documentation and selection of texts" (2007-2010), "Spanish images and stereotypes in German travel books: historical evolution between intercultural reality and fiction" (2011-2013), "Journeys and places. Cultural topographies of German travellers in Spain" (2013-2016), "Imagological evolution of the Valencian Levant in the German travel literature" (2018-2019) and "The female vision of Spain: accounts of German-speaking female travellers in the 19th and 20th centuries" (2020-2021). The results of this research are reflected in a series of contributions to conferences and publications mentioned in the curriculum vitae.

Since 2013 she has been Erasmus Coordinator of the Degree in Modern Languages and their Literatures and tutor in the ENTREIGUALS programme and has held management and administrative functions in the Economic Commission, the Selection Committee, the Permanent Board of the Department, the Faculty Board, as coordinator and also secretary of the Area and Teaching Unit and as coordinator of the Educational Innovation Plan, among others.

Gonçal López-Pampló (Valencia, 1982) has a degree in Catalan Studies (UV) and English Studies (UNED). He holds a Master's degree in Education and e-learning (UOC). He obtained his doctorate in 2016 with a thesis supervised by Professor Carme Gregori Soldevila, which dealt with the essay as a literary genre. Based on this work, he has published the books D'Ors a Fuster. Per una història de l'assaig en la literatura contemporània (PUV, 2017) and Primera lliçó sobre l'assaig (PAM / CMT, 2023), in addition to several contributions to collective books, academic journals and conferences. He currently has two six-year research periods.

Associate professor since 2007, between 2014 and 2022 he held the position of literary director at Edicions Bromera and Algar Editorial. From September 2022 he is exclusively dedicated to teaching, management and research as an assistant professor in the Department of Catalan Philology.

He is currently the coordinator of the 4th year of the Degree in Catalan Philology and participates in the committees responsible for communication in the Department of Catalan Philology, research seminars and the Olimpíada de Valencià. He is also a member of the Càtedra Joan Fuster and the Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana and of the Contemporary Catalan Literature Group (GIUV2013-007). He is secretary of the journal Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Literaris i and the book series "Folia Germà Colón" (IIFV). He is also a member of the editorial board of Revista Valenciana de Filologia.

With professor J. Àngel Cano, he coordinates the educational innovation project "Writing and oral expression in the age of IA: challenges and opportunities in the Catalan Philology area (1st phase)", within the GESOLCAT Consolidated Innovation Group. 

Professor at the University of Valencia. Specialized in Linguistics and with experience in the areas of Linguistics, East Asia, Japanese language and translation. She has worked in theoretical Linguistics, contrastive and typological Linguistics, language teaching, etc. She has collaborated with various universities in Europe, Asia and America. She has published numerous articles and several monographs in prestigious publishers such as Peter Lang, Arco Libros, Tirant, Universitat de València, etc.

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish Philology of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication at the University of Valencia. She holds a BA in Hispanic Philology (UV), a BA in Anglo-Germanic Philology (UV), a BA in Portuguese Philology (UB; BA extraordinary award) and a PhD in Hispanic Philology.

As a lecturer in the areas of Portuguese Philology and Spanish Language, she has taught subjects related to historical grammar, textual analysis and the correct usage of Spanish. At present, she teaches Spanish as a foreign language, both at BA and MA levels.

She is a member of the UV Research Group HISLEDIA (History and Historiography of the Spanish Language in its Diachrony) and has participated in several state-funded projects. Her main lines of research include contrastive diachronic studies of Spanish and other languages (Portuguese and Catalan): historical pragmatics and syntax, historical phraseology, phonetics and phonology.

She is currently participating in the project Variación y codificación fraseológica en la historia del español (siglos XIII-XVIII) (CODIFRAS) with reference PID2023-152770NB-I00, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Proyectos Generación de Conocimientos 2023, Subprograma de generación del conocimiento), directed by Dr. Francisco Pedro Pla Colomer and Dr. Santiago Vicente Llavata.

Her most recent publications include: "Estudio histórico del proceso de pragmatización de construcciones fraseológicas con los esquemas Voto a… y Voto va… en español" (Artifara, 2024.2);  "Apuntes sobre el proceso de gramaticalización y pragmatización de algunas combinaciones interjectivas con núcleo Dios" en Investigaciones léxicas. Estados, temas y rudimentos. Líneas de investigación del Seminario de Lexicografía Hispánica (2021, Octaedro); "Para la historia románica de cabo: Combinaciones locucionales en el período postalfonsí”, in Cómo se hacen las unidades fraseológicas: continuidad y renovación en la diacronía del espacio castellano (2018, Peter Lang); “La expresión de la causa a través de las combinaciones locucionales prepositivas medievales en las crónicas alfonsíes y en sus traducciones al gallego y al portugués” (co-authored with Adela García Valle), in La fraseología a través de la historia de la lengua española y su historiografía (2017, Tirant lo Blanch); “El origen de algunas locuciones prepositivas en gallego y portugués. Análisis de las crónicas medievales”, in Fraseología española: diacronía y codificación. (2016, Madrid, CSIC); “De injurias y blasfemias: insultos y otros actos descorteses en los procesos inquisitoriales de los siglos XVI y XVII”, in Los poderes de la palabra. El improperio en la cultura hispánica del Siglo de Oro (2013, Peter Lang); “Contraste con otras modalidades hispánicas: castellano y portugués en el siglo XVI”, in Historia de la pronunciación de la lengua castellana (2013, Peter Lang).

She has combined teaching and research with academic management at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. From 2012 to 2018 she was Vice-Dean of Academic Organisation and Quality and from March 2018 to March 2024, she held the position of Dean. She co-directed the Master in Research in Languages and Literatures from April 2014 to November 2018. She has been an elected member of the Faculty Board since 2011 and of the UV Governing Council since 2013.

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[Biography, English version]

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.

Vice-Dean of Culture, Equality, Inclusive Policies and Sustainability.

Acting Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication (University of Valence, Spain) (10/2/2025 to 4/8/2025)

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

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).

Mireia Vives Martínez holds a B.A. in English Studies (2016) and a B.A. in Modern Languages and their Literatures (2018), as well as a PhD in Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and their Applications (2022) from the Universitat de València. She works currently as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and German Philology at the same university. She is a member of the Research Group RIALE ‘’Relaciones interculturales Alemania-España‘’ (GIUV2013-078) (https://www.uv.es/riale), whose main objective is to establish the basis for a comprehensive research on intercultural relations between Spain and German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Her research interests include issues of female agency in German literature, a topic she has explored in her doctoral thesis (‘Unschuldig sterb ich und doch in Schuld: La culpa como tema en la obra de Theodor Fontane a partir del caso de Effi Briest’) and intercultural relations between Germany and Spain based on the accounts of nineteenth-century German and English women travellers to Spain.