Maya Zalbidea Paniagua

Associate Professor of Literature from English Speaking Countries at Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a Ph. D and her doctoral dissertation entitled “Reading and Teaching Gender Studies in Electronic Literature and New Media Art” was defended in 2011. Nowadays she is teaching “Introduction to Literary Texts in English Language”, “English Literature from 1800 to 1900” and is supervising final year projects within the field of feminism and gender studies in literature from English Speaking Countries. She also teaches English at the Bilingual Public High School Cervantes. Her research interests include feminism, electronic literature and psychoanalytic literary criticism. She is member of the research groups: Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation (SIIM) (led by Asunción López-Varela), Electronic Literature Research Group (BEL) (led by Scott Rettberg) and Hermeneia (led by Giovanna di Rosario), as well as is currently working in Aglaya Research Project “Strategies of Innovation in Cultural Mythcriticism” (led by José Manuel Losada Goya). She took part of the organizing committee of ELVA: The First International Conference on Electronic Literature and Virtual Art (Alcalá de Henares University, 2012) and “Woman’s Day” (Complutense University of Madrid, 2015). She is editor of the Journal of Literature and Art Studies, she has been coeditor of Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research, reviewer of Digital Humanities Quarterly and took part of the international consultants’ team of Volume 3 of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in 2017. Her most recent conferences have been "The Sphynx and Memory: Cyborgs in Electronic Literature" (Mythcriticism 2020), “Posthumans and Machines in Cyberliterature” (Cyberpunk Conference 2020) “Literary Works to Educate in Gender Equality at Each Learning Stage” (CICELI 2020) and “Intersectional Feminism and Bodies in Electronic Literature” (ELO 2019).