TEAM

Principal Investigator

He is Associate Professor of English Studies at the Universitat de València (Spain), a member of the research groups GRATUV and BATWoW, as well as one of the Editors-in-Chief of Tycho: Revista de Investigación del Teatro Clásico y su Tradición. He has been a funded visiting scholar at the Université de Lille, University of London (Birkbeck College), and Université Paris Nanterre. He has led the research projects “Biofiction and the Nineteenth Century: Gender and Ethics in Contemporary Transatlantic Culture” (CIGE/2021/140) and “Contemporary Biofiction: Peripheral Figures and Transnational Crossings” (CIGE/2023/50). His main areas of research are comparative literature, classical tradition, biofiction on ancient figures, women’s writing, and queer theory in use. His publications have appeared in such specialised journals as Complutense Journal of English Studies, Alicante Journal of English Studies, Philologica canariensia, ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, among others.

She is Professor of English literature at the Universitat de València (Spain). Her main area of research is prose fiction from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, with a special focus on female authors. She has published critical editions in Spanish of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1996), Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1998), Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey (2000), and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (2015) for the collection “Letras Universales”, in Ediciones Cátedra. She has also published widely in journals and collections of essays dealing with the authors previously mentioned. She is the director of the research group “British and American Transatlantic Women Writers – BATWoW” (GIUV2013-083) at the University of Valencia. Among other research projects, she has been part of “La ficción biográfica neodecimonónica: género y ética en la cultura transatlántica contemporánea” (CIGE/2022/140) and “Ficción biográfica contemporánea: Figuras periféricas y encuentros transnacionales” (CIGE/2024/50), both led by Dr. Mayron Cantillo Lucuara. She has worked on biofiction about Aphra Behn, and her latest paper is “The Life of Charlotte Brontë como ficción biográfica” (2025).

She is Senior Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga (Spain). Her research interests are the history of gender and sexuality in Victorian England and Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture. Her publications include many book chapters and articles in journals, and she has edited and co-edited numerous international volumes. She is the author of the monograph The London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform (Peter Lang, 2014). She has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies entitled “Neo-Victorian Sexploitation” published in 2017, and another special issue of CLCWeb Journal entitled “Gendered Bodies in Transit: Between Vulnerability and Resistance” (2019). Her latest publications are the co-edition Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the monograph Town and Gown Prostitution: Cambridge’s Architecture of Containment of Sexual Deviance (Peter Lang, 2022).