Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

Complutense University of Madrid Spain

Asunción López-Varela Azcárate is an Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense Madrid and founder of the SIIM research program on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation. A Fulbright and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, she has served as Vice-Chair of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (SOC) and was President of the European Society of Comparative Literature. She is the Research Chair of the New Directions in the Humanities Network and editor of The International Journal of Literary Humanities. López-Varela also leads the Eurasia Foundation's seminar on cross-cultural dialogue and sustainability. Her research includes Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics, Myth Criticism, and Environmental Humanities. More details appear on her SIIM webpage. https://www.ucm.es/siim/asun-lopez-varela

Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

8books edited

6chapters authored

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Literature as an Art Form – Evolving Intermedial Literary Landscape brings together sixteen scholarly contributions that explore literature’s ongoing transformation across media, cultures, and technologies. This anthology traces the dynamic interplay between literature and visual, sonic, performative, and algorithmic forms, ranging from illuminated manuscripts and oral traditions to digital texts and anime. Rejecting the notion of literature as a fixed verbal art, the chapters highlight its status as a transmedial, evolving practice, shaped by and shaping the environments in which it is situated. Each essay examines how literature migrates across modalities, revealing it as a mutable process of techno-poïesis. Together, they offer a compelling vision of literature not as an autonomous artefact, but as a fluid cultural phenomenon whose conditions of existence are inseparable from intermedial exchange.

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