Nerea Benítez Collado (Pilar de la Horadada, 1999) Graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Barcelona in 2021. Subsequently the Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies at the University of Valencia and currently works at the same university as training staff in training since 2025 thanks to the "Talent attraction" program (call 2023). 

Among his academic interests are gender studies, studies of memory and contemporary Hispano -American literature. Interests, at the same time, linked and continuous dialogue with feminist, anti -capitalist and territory activism.

Álvaro López Fernández holds a PhD in Spanish Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid (2019) and is currently a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valencia. His main lines of research are the analysis of the grotesque and the fantastic in contemporary Spanish culture, especially in relation to memory, and the study of current Spanish poetry. In this regard, he is the author of the monograph El esperpento durante la Guerra Civil: propaganda y revolución (Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2020), and co-editor of the volumes Creadoras de monstruos. Lo fantástico en la ficción española actual: cine, televisión y cómic (Shangrila, 2024, with David Roas and Enrique del Rey), Figuras olvidadas en la cultura de la Guerra Civil (Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2022), Lecturas del desierto. Antología y entrevistas sobre poesía actual en España (Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, 2018, with Raúl Molina Gil and Ángela Martínez Fernández), and the critical editions Raimundo Salas Mercadal. Poesía reunida (Universidad de Zaragoza, 2024, with Raúl Molina Gil) and Checas de Madrid de Tomás Borrás (Escolar y Mayo, 2016, with Emilio Peral Vega). He has also coordinated several monographs in high-impact journals.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo fantástico and is linked to the research groups "GEF: Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico" (UAB) and "CREGEL: Crítica, edición y géneros literarios" (VIU). 

Before taking up his current position, he was a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2022-2023), Master's lecturer at the Universidad Internacional de Valencia (2021) and lecturer at the American university foundation IES Abroad Madrid (2019-2021).

He has carried out teaching and research stays at the University of Texas at Austin, the Università degli Studi di Pavia and the University of Buenos Aires.

Since 2023 he has co-directed the poetry and essay collection La Guerra Chimpancé.

Carmen Medina holds a PhD from the Universitat de Lleida with the thesis “El erotismo en la primera producción literaria de Ana Rossetti (1980-1991)” (2022). This research deals with the study of the theme of eroticism in the work of Ana Rossetti in relation to the social and cultural context of the Transition and the early years of democracy. In particular, it analyzes the representation of sexual liberation in the context of the “Movida madrileña”, the retrospective look at the sentimental and sexual education received during the national Catholic Spain and the events that led to the democratic disenchantment, including the emergence of HIV / AIDS. This research resulted in the monograph “Inefable delirium”: eroticism in Ana Rossetti (1980-1991) (2024, Iberoamericana Vervuert). Her work focuses on the study of contemporary Spanish poetry written by women. Among other results, she has coordinated the monograph “Voces líricas de ambos lados del Atlántico. La poesía escrita por mujeres en español en el siglo XXI (2000-2021)” in la Revista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas.

Currently, she is a member of the research projects: “The Literature of the Spanish Democratic Transition and European Transitional Narratives” (PID2019-107821GB-I00) funded by MINECO, executed at the University of Zaragoza and directed by María Ángeles Naval and “EXPEDIAS - Experiences of Presentism in Spain: Dispositivos, Artes y Saberes (2022-2024)”, funded by the Laboratoire d'Excellence ‘Les passés dans le présent’, a consortium that brings together the CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique de France), the University Paris Nanterre and the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and directed by Brice Chamouleau.

He has made several international stays during his academic career. In the framework of the postdoctoral contract Margarita Salas made a research stay at the University Paris Nanterre (France). Also, during her predoctoral training she did research stays at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico).

Maria Morant Giner is a Research Fellow in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. In this department she is currently performing her Postdoctoral Orientation Period, after defending her doctoral thesis “Los héroes han muerto: usos y reescrituras de los mitos grecolatinos en el teatro chileno de postdictadura (1990-2009)”. Throughout her training period she has taught different subjects in the Hispanic Studies Degree such as Contemporary Theatrical Texts (35533), Contemporary Hispanic American Readings (35530) or the Spanish Novel of the 19th Century (35528).

 She is a member of the research groups REPERCRI (Contemporary Representations of Perpetrators of Mass Crimes) and GRATUV (Grup de Recerca i Acció Teatral de la Universitat de València). Since 2023 she is the representative of the Research Staff in Training in the Board of the Center. 

Betlem Pallardó holds a degree in Hispanic Studies and a Master’s in Advanced Hispanic Studies, both from Universitat de València. She is currently undertaking her PhD as a doctoral researcher at the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universitat de València, supported by the FPU (Formación del Profesorado Universitario) grant within the PhD Programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies under the supervision of Jaume Peris Blanes and Claudia Alonso Recarte. She is also the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural.

Her research interests are centred on the cultural representation of sites of violence towards other-than-human animals. In her most recent work, she focuses on animal exhibition and its cultural portrayals.