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 Advanced 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, which has received funding from various sources (please visit website for further information).
A proactive member of the profession, currently, López-Varela is Deputy Head of the Department of English Studies, President of the European Society of Comparative Literature (helping keep its webpage as well as its FB page with almost 4000 followers). She is also in the Executive Committee of the Association of Alumni of the Real Colegio Complutense in Harvard University and a member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association MCAA.