Academic credentials and positions:

• BA in English, MA in Linguistics and Literary Studies, and PhD in Languages and Literatures (Victorian poetry).
• Lecturer in English Studies at the Universitat de València (Spain).
• Member of the research groups GRATUV and BatWoW.
• Secretary and peer reviewer for TYCHO's Editorial Board. 
• Principal Investigator of the project "Biofiction and the Nineteenth Century: Gender and Ethics in Contemporary Transatlantic Culture" (CIGE/2021/140).
• Author of chapters and articles in high impact journals and volumes: Routledge, Rhemata, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, Alicante Journal of English Studies, Philologica Canariensia, Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, among others. 
• Former Visiting Researcher at HALMA (Université de Lille, 2023), Birkbeck College (University of London, 2018) and the Université Paris Nanterre (2016 and 2017). 

Research interests: 

• Comparative literature: gender, classical reception, philosophy and literature 
• Anglophone women writers as makers of (post)modernity
• Classical tradition in English literature (Sappho and her literary daughters)
• Gender and sexuality studies in Anglophone cultures
• Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology as critical paradigm
• Margaret Cavendish, Mary Robinson, Michael Field and Emma Donoghue
• Translation of Anglophone women's works into Spanish

Miguel Fuster-Márquez is a full professor of English at the University of Valencia and a member of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages (IULMA). He has published research on the application of corpus approaches in the fields of English lexicology, phraseology, discourse, linguistic variation and change, teaching methodologies, and advertising. More recently he has participated in projects related to the critical analysis of journalistic discourse, where he has applied corpus methodologies.

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 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 has been 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.

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.

Profesora de la universidad de Valencia. Especializada en Lingüística y con experiencia en las áreas de Lingüística, Asia oriental, lengua japonesa y traducción. Ha trabajado en lingüística teórica, lingüística contrastiva y tipológica, enseñanza de lenguas, etc. Ha colaborado con diversas universidades en Europa, Asia y América. Ha publicado varios libros y numerosos artículos en editoriales como Peter Lang, Arco Libros, Tirant, etc.

[Biography, english version]

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 currently takes part in the HISLECDIAC Research Project (History and historiography of the Castilian language in its contrastive diachrony) financed by the State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Sub-programme for knowledge generation), REF. FFI2017-83688-P, directed by professors Mª Teresa Echenique and M.ª José Martínez.

Her most recent publications include: "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 combines teaching and research with academic management at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. She has served as Vice-Dean for Academic Organisation and Quality from 2012 to 2018, and since March 2018 she is the Dean of the Faculty. She has co-directed the MA Programme in Research in Languages and Literatures from 2014 to 2018. She has been an elected member of the Faculty Board since 2012 and of the UV Governing Council since 2013.

[Biography, english version]