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Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde Blanca María Lara González
Débora Betrisey Nadali Mª Jesús LLarena Ascanio
Olga Blanco-Carrión María Asenet Marín Morales
Alida Carloni Franca Belén Martín Lucas
Pradyumna S. Chauhan Francisco Javier Martín Párraga
Pilar Cuder Domínguez Alejandra Moreno Álvarez
Bernd Dietz Guerrero Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru Antonia Navarro Tejero
Cristina María Gámez Fernández Virginia Nieto-Sandoval Millán
Jokin Garatea Guerricagoitia Maurice O'Connor
Rosa María García Periago Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz
Emma García Sanz Laura Peco González
Carlos Garrido Castellano Oscar Pujol Riembau
María del Pilar González de la Rosa Christopher Rollason
María Luz González Rodríguez Esperanza Santos Moya
Felicity Hand Cranham Teresa Segura García
María Dolores Herrero Granado Sunny Singh
Rosana Herrero Martín Beatriz Teresa Torregrosa Peláez
Guillermo Iglesias Díaz Víctor Vélez García
Rafael Iruzubieta Fernández Rosalía Villa Jiménez
María José Izarra Cala Fernando Wulff Alonso
Dr Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru is Reader in American Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania, specializing in Postcolonial theory and Ethnic and African American literatures. She completed a second PhD on contemporary Indian fiction in English at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and is currently researching the area of intersection between diasporic postcolonial and postcommunist literatures. The following are some of her recent publications.
Books: Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 300 pp. (forthcoming 2010); Cultura româneasca in perspectiva transatlantica. Interviuri (Romanian Culture in Transatlantic Perspective: Romanian-American Dialogues), co-edited with Teodora Serban-Oprescu, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2009, 310 pp. Identity Performance in Contemporary Non-WASP American Fiction, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2008, 214pp.
Articles in Peer-Reviewd Journals: ‘Provincialising London in Vikram Chandra’s Novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain’, Les Carnets de Cerpac, Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 12 pp. (forthcoming 2010); ‘Performative Symbols and Structures in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things’, Commonwealth Essays and Studies 31.2, 2009, pp. 62-77.; ‘Love as Reclamation in Toni Morrison’s African American Rhetoric’, European Journal of American Culture 27.3, 2008, pp. 191-205; ‘Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain’, Comparative Literature Studies 45.1, 2008, pp. 23-39; ‘Alternatives to the Novel Form: Oral Storytelling and Internet Patterns in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43.3, 2008, pp. 45-60.
Carlos Garrido Castellano es investigador y docente en formación en la Universidad de Granada (España), siendo miembro del Departamento de Historia del Arte de dicha institución. Actualmente forma parte del Grupo de Investigación Andalucía-América: Patrimonio Cultural Y Relaciones Artísticas. Su ámbito de investigación académica se centra en las relaciones artísticas contemporáneas en la India y el Caribe, elemento que constituye el eje de su tesis doctoral, actualmente en curso. Igualmente también se ha ocupado del análisis de la producción artística vinculada a las diásporas indias y caribeñas en Estados Unidos y Europa, así como del examen de los discursos de la diferencia que dan lugar a las políticas del arte en ambas regiones.
Taniya Gupta es doctoranda en la Universidad de Granada, donde estudia la transferencia de referentes culturales en la traducción de textos audiovisuales, bajo la dirección del Dr. Frederic Chaume Varela, de la Universidad Jaume I. Hizo su carrera en Filología Hispánica en Jawaharlal Nehru University en Nueva Delhi, tras la cual se matriculó en el Máster Oficial en Traducción e Interpretación de la UGR como becaria del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación - Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (MAEC-AECID). Dicha beca le fue renovada para continuar su investigación y redactar la tesis doctoral, que integra, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar, la Traducción Audiovisual, los Estudios Cinematográficos y los Estudios Culturales. Taniya Gupta combina sus estudios académicos con el ejercicio profesional de la traducción. Además, su interés en los medios audiovisuales se debe en gran parte al hecho de que ha colaborado activamente en grupos de teatro, tanto en India como en España.
Taniya Gupta is currently a Ph.D. scholar enrolled in the University of Granada, where she is researching Audiovisual Translation in the context of Indian cinema and culture under the guidance of Dr. Frederic Chaume Varela of the Jaume I University. She completed her graduate studies in Hispanic Philology in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by the Spanish Ministry of External Affairs (MAEC-AECID) to specialize in the investigation of cultural transfer in translated versions of Indian films. Her research interests include Audiovisual Translation, Cinema and Cultural Studies, interests heightened by her experience as a professional translator as well as her active participation in theatre groups in India as well as in Spain.
Felicity Hand es profesora titular del Departament de Filologia Anglesa de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona donde imparte asignaturas de Literatura Postcolonial e Historia y Cultura de las Islas Británicas. Ha publicado artículos sobre varios autores indios y africanos incluyendo Vikram Seth, Ved Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, M.G.Vassanji y, más recientemente, Abdulrazak Gurnah (Research in African Literature, Vol. 41, Nº 2, 2010). Actualmente dirige un proyecto de investigación financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Cartografías de la indianidad en las literaturas del Océano Índico (FFI2009-07711) y está elaborando un libro sobre la escritora mauriciana Lindsey Collen.
Felicity Hand is senior lecturer in the English
Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She teaches
post-colonial literature and history and culture of the British Isles. She
has published articles on several Indian and African writers including
Vikram Seth, Ved Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and
M.G.Vassanji. Her most recent publication is on the work of Abdulrazak
Gurnah (Research in African Literatures, Vol. 41, Nº 2, 2010). At present
she is head of a research project financed by the Spanish Ministry of
Science and Innovation entitled Cartographies of Indianness in the
Literatures of the Indian Ocean (FFI2009-07711) and is writing a monograph
on the Mauritian writer Lindsey Collen.
Dolores Herrero
is Senior Lecturer of English Literature at the Department of English and
German Philology of the University of Zaragoza. She currently teaches: an
undergraduate course on Victorian literature and another one on postcolonial
literatures in English; and two Master courses on postcolonial literature
and cinema. Dolores Herrero is a member of a competitive research team
currently working on the ethical and traumatic component in contemporary
fiction in English and whose head is Professor Susana Onega. She has
published articles and book chapters on Victorian and postcolonial
literature –in particular Australian and Indian authors such as Mudrooroo,
David Malouf, Peter Carey, Merlinda Bobis, Roberta Sykes, J. Turner
Hospital, Gail Jones, Satendra Nandan and Meena Alexander, to name but a
few– and film and cultural studies. She has co-edited, together with Dr.
Marita Nadal, the book Margins in British and American Literature, Film
and Culture (1997). She was also the editor of Miscelánea: A Journal
of English and American Studies from 1998 till 2006.
Blanca Lara is a language teacher at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas in Toledo and a lecturer in English at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. She holds a PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is currently working on the publication of her dissertation on British 19th-century melodrama. Her research interests include drama, fantasy, and cultural studies. Her love of India stems from Bollywood films and music.
Blanca Lara es profesora en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Toledo y profesora asociada en la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Doctora por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, en la actualidad está preparando la publicación de su tesis, sobre el melodrama británico del siglo XIX. Entre sus líneas de investigación están el teatro, la fantasía y los estudios culturales. Su interés por la India surgió a partir de las películas y música de Bollywood.
Belén Martín Lucas es profesora en la Universidad de Vigo donde enseña materias de literatura postcolonial y feminista. Coordina junto a Ana Bringas López el Feminario de Investigación Feminismos e Resistencias (Teorías e Prácticas) desde 1996. Su investigación gira en torno a las políticas de resistencia en la narrativa feminista postcolonial, prestando especial atención a las estrategias empleadas en la creación literaria, como tropos y géneros. Ha publicado extensamente sobre la explotación simbólica del cuerpo de las mujeres en los discursos nacionalistas patriarcales y en los mercados culturales de la globalización. http://webs.uvigo.es/bmartin/.
Belén Martín-Lucas teaches Postcolonial and Diasporic Film and Literatures in English at the University of Vigo where she coordinates the Research Unit Feminisms and Resistance: Theory and Practice. Her research focuses on politics of resistance in postcolonial feminist narratives, paying attention to the strategies employed by writers, such as genre or tropes. She has published extensively on nationalism and globalization, and on the symbolic exploitation of female bodies in contemporary globalized cultural markets.
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Oviedo. She has been a research fellow at Rutgers University and Cornell University, among others. Currently, she is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Oviedo. Her teaching and research is centered in English Literature and Literatures in English Language, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory and in the subject of Body Politics in Literature and Cinema. She is the author of Lenguajes comestibles: Anorexia, bulimia y su descodificación en la ficción de Margaret Atwood y Fay Weldon (2009).
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez es doctora por la Universidad de Oviedo, dentro del Programa “Estudios de la Mujer”. Actualmente es profesora ayudante de dicha universidad. Su docencia y líneas de investigación se centran en la Literatura Inglesa y Literaturas en Lengua Inglesa, en Teoría Literaria Feminista y Postcolonial, y en el tema de políticas corpóreas en la literatura y el cine. Es autora de Lenguajes comestibles: Anorexia, bulimia y su descodificación en la ficción de Margaret Atwood y Fay Weldon (2009).
Antonia Navarro Tejero es Doctora en Filología Inglesa, siendo su área de especialización la literatura anglófona de mujeres del subcontinente asiático y su diáspora. Ha ejercido durante años de Profesora Visitante en Estados Unidos y obtuvo una beca Fulbright posdoctora en la University of California, Berkeley. Asimismo, la Profª. Navarro ha sido en repetidas ocasiones Profesora Visitante en varias universidades de India. Actualmente reside en Andalucía, donde es Profesora Titular de la Universidad de Córdoba y coordina el Seminario Permanente de Estudios sobre India. Entre sus publicaciones recientes detacan los libros Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy (Routledge: 2009), Talks on Feminism: Indian Women Activists Speak for Themselves (Sarup and Sons: 2008), Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (The Edwin Mellen Press: 2005) y Matrimonio y patriarcado en autoras de la diáspora hindú (Servicio Publicaciones Universidad de Huelva: 2001).
Dr Juan Ignacio Oliva is Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands), where he currently teaches Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures (with an interest in Indo-English, Canadian, Irish and Chicano/a cultures) at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has published extensively on contemporary authors, such as Salman Rushdie, Shyam Selvadurai, Sunetra Gupta, Bharati Mukherjee, D.M. Thomas, John Fowles, Jamie O’Neill, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Abelardo Delgado, Ricardo Sánchez, and others. He is also presently the Head of the La Laguna Center for Canadian Studies, the current editor of Canadaria (Revista Canaria de Estudios Canadienses) and the current secretary of RCEI (Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses). Recently, he has been elected Member of the Advisory Board of EASLCE (the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment) and committeeperson of AEEII (Spanish Association of Interdisciplinary Studies about India).
El Dr. Juan Ignacio Oliva es catedrático de Literatura en lengua inglesa y en la actualidad desempeña el cargo de Decano de la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canarias). Allí enseña literaturas postcoloniales anglófonas (especialmente, angloindia, canadiense, anglo-irlandesa, y chicana, entre otras) tanto en las enseñanzas de grado como en las de posgrado. Ha publicado ampliamente ensayos sobre autores contemporáneos como Salman Rushdie, Shyam Selvadurai, Sunetra Gupta, Bharati Mukherjee, D.M. Thomas, John Fowles, Jamie O’Neill, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Abelardo Delgado, o Ricardo Sánchez, entre otros. Preside actualmente el Centro de Estudios Canadienses de la ULL, dirige la revista Canadaria (Revista Canaria de Estudios Canadienses) y es el secretario de la RCEI (Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses). Recientemente ha sido elegido miembro del comité asesor de EASLCE (la Asociación Europea de Estudios sobre Literatura, Cultura y el Medio Ambiente) y es Vocal de la AEEII (Asociación Española de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre India).
Dr Christopher Rollason is a British national living in Metz (France). He graduated with First Class Honours in English from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1975, and obtained his Ph.D. from York University in 1988. For eight years up to 1987 he was a member of the Department of Anglo-American Studies at Coimbra University (Portugal). In recent years he has collaborated as a guest lecturer with Kakatiya University (Warangal, Andhra Pradesh), CIEFL Hyderabad and JNU Delhi. He has published a large number of articles on Indian Writing in English, on authors including Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Manju Kapur. He has been Language Editor for the Atlantic Literary Review (Delhi) and is currently a member of the advisory boards of various Indian journals. He has co-edited (with Rajeshwar Mittapalli) the anthology 'Modern Criticism' (2002) and (with Sheobushan Shukla and Anu Shukla) a volume of critical essays on Vikram Chandra (2009). Dr Rollason’s website is at: http://yatrarollason.info, and includes links to the texts of many of his articles and a full bibliography.
Dr Rajiv Saxena is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Fulbright Senior Scholar to University of California, Davis, USA and Harvard University, USA. Former Editor of Hispanic Horizon, the internationally recognized referred and listed Indian Research Journal of Hispanic Studies and former Assistant Editor of Papeles de la India, the Indian Journal in Spanish published by the Indian Council for Cultural Relation (ICCR), Government of India.
Board/Panel Member of University Grants Commission UGC, (Govt. of India), Indra Gandhi National Open University, University of Rajasthan, Kurukshetra University, Punjabi University, Indian School Certificate Examinations, Instituto Cervantes, Delhi and several companies in India. Graduated and Doctorate from JNU and Masters degree from Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain and specialized diploma from Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Presented research papers in several International conferences and published many books, research papers in national and international journals.
Involved in research and teaching since 1992. Taught at prestigious institute, college and university like: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi; Lady Sri Ram College (LSR), New Delhi; Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi. Apart from teaching & research has appeared on Television and Radio programmes as an expert. Involved in diffusion and development of Spanish language in India. http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/rsaxena/
