Asun López-Varela is Associate Professor at Facultad Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 1994. She holds a PhD Anglo-American Culture and Literary Studies, a Diploma of Advance Studies in Spanish Literature from UNED, and a Master in Education Management from the Open University London. Her research interests are Comparative and World Literature, Cultural and Education Studies, as well as Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics.

In 2007 she created the research program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation SIIM.

A proactive member of the profession, López-Varela colaborates in the Marie Curie Program of the European Office of the Fundación Española de Ciencia y Tecnología FECYT.

Currently, López-Varela is the president of the European Society of Comparative Literature. She is also in the Executive Committee of the Association of Alumni of the Real Colegio Complutense in Harvard University.

López-Varela serves as external evaluator for the EU Educational, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency EACEA (2013), the European Union Research Program Horizon

2020 (Reflecive Societies 2016), and MSCA Marie Sklodowska-Curie (2014-2015),

Evaluator of Trinity College Long Room Hub MSCA COFUND fellowship programme for the Arts and Humanities 2016 ; She is also evaluator for the scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) & for the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD P.R.I.M.E. Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience as well as external evaluator of the postgraduate programs of Comparative Literature at Dublin City University and

the Institute for Intermedial Studies at Linnaeus University. López-Varela has collaborated as recruitment advisor with the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED &

the Department of Romance Studies Harvard University.

In order to strengthen relations between Europe and Asia, López-Varela coordinates

the Complutense-One Asia Foundation Seminar Series on Cross-cultural dialogue funded by the One Asia Foundation.

In 2016, López-Varela received a MSCA Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship as supervisor and is a member of MCAA Marie Curie Alumni Association in 2017, she received a micro-grant to attend MCAA events. She was also visiting scholar at Brown University (2010) and Harvard University (2013) and visiting professor at Delhi University (2011), Beijng Language and Culture University (every year since 2012), Kazakh National University, Almaty (2013, 2014). Tamkang University, Taipei & Sun Jat Sen Univ. Kaohsiung (2014-2015). She is an honorary member of the Poetry Award Committee of Beijing Literature and ArtNetwork.

She also collaborates with other research groups such as Hermeneia Research Group at Universitat de Barcelona Mitocriticism Research Group at Complutense

Madrid and Semiótica Comunicación y Cultura

Lopez-Varela is keen in giving international visibility to research by colleagues and younger peers, and her editorial activities are a clear sign in this direction. She is Editor International Journal of the Humanities SJR Rank (Commonground Publishing), Associate International Editor Journal Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and collaborator in the InTech Open Access series of the European Union Open Aire project.

Prof. López-Varela is Editorial Board Member and Scientific advisor in journals such

as: Comparative Literature and Culture , 1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca deSignis, the journal of

the Federación Latinoamericana de Semiótica (FELS)        Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology          International Journal of Transmedia Literacy Southern Semiotic Review, HyperCultura Journal Hyperion University (Bucharest) “Studii şi cercetări ştiinţifice. Seria filologie (SCS)” (ISSN 1224-841X) of University “Vasile Alecsandri” and

the Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences CJES at World Education Center. She is also a reviewer at the Arab Journal for the Humanities AJH, Academid Publication Council, University of Kuwait and the Journal of Language Studies of the University Kabengsaan Malaysia. López- Varela collaborates with other publishing houses such as Routledge Aracne editrice

S.r.l. and MacMillan and Peter Lang”s Book Series “Reflections on Signs and Language”.