Eduardo Barros Grela (UDC) - Director

Eduardo Barros Grela is Associate Professor in the Department of Letters at the Faculty of Philology, University of A Coruña.

After completing a degree in English Philology, he went on to earn two master's degrees in Education and Hispanic Studies before obtaining a PhD in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from the State University of New York. During his time at SUNY, he taught Spanish language, literature, and culture to non-native speakers for five years. He subsequently continued this work for a further five years as Associate Professor at the California State University. In 2008, he returned to the University of A Coruña, where he has since taught continuously at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His teaching spans the Faculty of Philology, where he contributes to the BA in English Studies and the MA in Advanced English Studies, and the Faculty of Education, where he teaches on the Master's Degree in Foreign Language Teacher Education. He has supervised more than 120 undergraduate and master's dissertations and has been supervisor of 20 doctoral theses.

His research focuses on cultural studies, popular culture, and contemporary literature and film from transcultural and transnational perspectives. He has edited six scholarly volumes on literature and film and is currently completing a monograph on Irish cinema. His publication record includes more than 70 articles and book chapters in leading national and international journals and academic publishers. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects, including Literature and Music in Ireland and Their Counterpart in Galician Culture; The Great Irish Famine and Its Century-Long Silence in Europe; Aesthetics, Ethics and Strategies of New Migratory Cartographies and Transcultural Identities; and InterGames: Incorporating Interdisciplinarity in Secondary School Education Using Conflict Video Games. He leads the Irish Studies Research Group and has held research appointments at several Spanish and international universities, including the Claremont Colleges (California) and the University of California, Berkeley.

In the area of academic leadership and university administration, he serves as Coordinator of the BA in English Studies at the Faculty of Philology, University of A Coruña. He is also Academic Secretary of the University Institute of Research in Irish Studies and Coordinator of the Irish Studies Research Group. During his tenure in the United States, he served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Coordinator of the Transfer Project at California State University, as well as Director of the University's Cultural Studies Association and a member of the Humanities Institute in New York.

Santiago Fernández Mosquera (USC) - Director 2023-2025

Santiago Fernández Mosquera is Professor of Spanish Literature in the Department of Spanish Language and Literature, Literary Theory and General Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, of which he was Secretary and subsequently Director from 2009 to 2016 and from 2017 to present.

He is also the Principal Investigator/Coordinator of the Calderón Research Group (GIC) at the University of Santiago de Compostela and an associate member of GRISO (University of Navarre), CELES XVII-XVIII (University of Poitiers) and CECE (Centre for the Publication of Classical Spanish Literature). He was appointed deputy director of the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) on its creation in 2011, becoming its director from 2015 to 2017 and again in the 2019-2021 biennium. Professor Fernández Mosquera has served as chairman of the International Association of the Spanish Golden Age (AISO) since 2017.

A specialist in the literature of the Spanish Golden Age, whose authors include Cervantes, Quevedo and Calderón de la Barca, he has published 14 books, including monographs, literary editions and as coordinating editor; 4 journals, as guest editor, and over 60 journal articles or book chapters. He has been a visiting lecturer at the universities of Toulouse-Le Mirail and Poitiers (France), St. Andrews (UK), Heidelberg (Germany), La Réunión (France), Jinling College-Nanjing (China), Tehran (Iran) and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), and a guest lecturer at numerous institutions throughout the world.

He is an assessor at the Spanish National Assessment and Prospective Research Agency and its Italian counterpart (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca Direzione Generale per il coordinamento e lo sviluppo della Ricerca), having previously been coordinator of the Philology and Philosophy area of the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) for the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport’s mobility programme for research stays for senior ( the “Salvador de Madariaga” programme) and junior (the “José Castillejo” programme) academics.

In the wider cultural field he has produced and curated the exhibition Gravado e Palabra: Otero Pedrayo e Julio Prieto Nespereira at the Fundación Prieto Nespereira, Deputación de Ourense (June-September 2001) and as a photographer has displayed his work in two exhibitions: Las tierras escondidas: Assam y Arunachal Pradesh, India, with photographs by Santiago Fernández Mosquera and Salvador Arellano, at the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Oporto (Portugal), 4/12/2008-11/01/2009, the University of Navarre (Pamplona, February 2009), the Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua (Palacio de la Isla, Burgos, February 2009) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Colexio de Fonseca, April 2009); and Swagatam, with photographs by Santiago Fernández Mosquera and Salvador Arellano at the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi (India), which opened on 11/11/2010.

Victoria Vázquez Rozas (USC) - Deputy director 2023-2025

Victoria Vázquez Rozas is a tenured lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Spanish Language and Literature, Literary Theory and General Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). She is the coordinator of the Spanish Grammar (GdE) research group. She has served as deputy director of the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) from 2015 to 2017 biennium and again in the 2019-2021 biennium. Since 2011 she has been the leader of the research group at the USC that is helping to build the CORPES XXI reference corpus of twenty-first century Spanish within the framework of the collaborative agreement between the university and the Spanish Royal Academy.

Victoria Vázquez Rozas is a tenured lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Spanish Language and Literature, Literary Theory and General Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), coordinator of the Spanish Grammar (GdE) research group and since 2015 deputy director of the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh). Since 2011 she has been the leader of the research group at the USC that is helping to build the CORPES XXI reference corpus of twenty-first century Spanish within the framework of the collaborative agreement between the university and the Spanish Royal Academy.

As a member of the GdE research group she was actively involved in the design and construction of the Syntactic Database of Spanish (BDS) and the various competitive projects related with this line of research from 1989 to 2006. Since 2007 she has been the coordinator of the USC’s PRESEGAL working group within the sphere of the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America Project (PRESEEA). She has also been lead researcher on five competitive projects focusing on the contrastive analysis of verbal syntax and the design, exploitation and analysis of spoken corpora (the ESLORA corpus).

She has published on syntactic and discursive aspects of Spanish from a usage-based perspective and, more recently, on the development and analysis of spoken corpora, fields in which she has supervised four doctoral theses and a substantial number of MA and BA dissertations. She has been a visiting lecturer at the universities of Copenhagen (Denmark), UC Santa Barbara (USA), Leuven (Belgium), Iceland, UNAM (Mexico) and PUCV (Valparaiso, Chile) and a guest lecturer at the universities of Syddansk and Aarhus (Denmark), the Menéndez Pelayo International University (Spain), the Autonomous University of Querétaro (Mexico) and the CUP in Braga (Portugal).

She is an assessor at the Spanish National Assessment and Prospective Research Agency (ANEP) and the Catalan Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR), a member of the scientific committees of journals such as Linguistic Studies (CLUNL, Lisbon), Sintagma (University of Lleida), Anuario de Letras. Lingüística y Filología (UNAM) and a member of the advisory committee of Verba (USC). She has worked as an external assessor in selection processes for the University of Iceland, the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Nova University of Lisbon or the Ohio Research Council, amongst others, and is a regular reviewer for specialist journals and publishers.

Faculty:

Sergio Rodríguez Martín

Alexandre González Vila

Fabián Alejandro Domínguez Silva

Mirza Wasfi Jabber

Maleeha Hafiz

Tariful Islam