Dra. Asunción López-Varela Azcárate
Prof. Asunción López-Varela’s interests in research include multimodal social semiotics, comparative cultural studies, comparative literature, and the use of hypermedia technologies in education.
She is a member of http://www.innovacioneducativa.net and http://www.eaas.eu/esg_list.htm and has taken part in projects such as http://www.ucm.es/info/guias/indexdom.htm http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi or http://e-motion.fatih.edu.tr
López-Varela coordinates the following projects: http://www.ucm.es/info/siim
http://interculturalobservatory.wordpress.com/ and Comparative Cultural Studies at http://www.liceus.com
She is Review Editor (Europe) for CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374) ©Purdue University http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/
She is also member of the following editorial boards:
RELADA https://moodle.upm.es/adamadrid/
JMCS http://www.academicjournals.org/JMCS/About.htm
CJES http://www.world-education-center.org/index.php/cjes/
and a reader in The Scholarly & Reference Division of Culture & Media Studies at Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com
Her most recent publications are:
Monographs
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción (Ed.) Cultural Scenarios of the Fantastic. Monographic issue. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 10.4 <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol10/> Purdue University Press, Dec. 2008 ISSN 1481-4374
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción & Mariana Net (Eds.) Real and Virtual Cities: Intertextual and Intermedial Mindscapes. Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2009 ISBN: 978-973-637-194-3
Book Chapters
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción. “Experiencias innovadoras de formación combinada (b-learning) en Filología Inglesa.” In Roberto Carballo y Paloma Fernández(Eds.) Metodologías y Experiencias de Innovación Educativa: 20 experiencias para renovar los espacios de aprendizaje en la Universidad. Grupo de Innovación Educativa acción-investigación/responsabilidad/iniciativa y recursos virtuales. Universidad Complutense Madrid, 2007 ISBN 978-84-611-8978-6
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción “Lecturas interculturales en el aprendizaje de las literaturas” In Pilar García Caicedo (Ed.) Enseñanza virtual y presencial de las literaturas Granada: Grupo Editorial Universitario, 2008 pp. 69-103 ISBN: 978-84-8491-837-8
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción “Posthuman Inscriptions & Humachine Environments: Blogs and Visibility in the Web” En Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (Ed.) Virtualisms: Literature as an Interface of New Media Technologies. Fordham University Press, forthcoming
Asunción López-Varela Azcaráte. Educational Innovation in the US and in Europe: a comparative analysis focusing on Romania.” In Transatlantic Dialogues. Eastern Europe, the U.S., and Post-Cold War Cultural Spaces_, eds. Rodica Mihaila and Roxana Oltean. Bucharest: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2009, pp. 115-132 ISBN 978-973-737-680-0
Articles in International Journals
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción. "Didactic Patterns for Electronic Materials in the Teaching of Interculturalism through Literature: The Experience of the Research Group LEETHI." In June Thompson & Francoise Blin (Eds.) ReCall Journal: European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. An International Journal on Technologies and Language Learning Vol 19, No 2, May 2007, Eds. Cambridge University Press, pp.121-136. ISSN 0958-3440
López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción “El gusto del público: la magia digital” In Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica. 17, 2008, pp. 57-85 ISSN 1133-3634
López-Varela Azcaráte, Asunción & Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. "Intermediality in Contemporary Culture Practices and Education." In Freda Chapple (Ed.) Culture, Language & Representation. In Intermediality. Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación. Revista de Estudios Culturales de la Universitat Jaume I. ISSN: 1697-7750 Volumen 6. May 2008, 65-82
López-Varela Azcaráte, Asunción, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. "Real and Imagined Urban Spaces and Transformations in/of Western Society” In Mariana Net Urban Spaces and Transformations in/of Western Society TRANS. 16 Journal of the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies (INST) 2009
López-Varela Azcaráte, Asunción, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. "Comparative Cultural Studies, éducation, nouveaux médias et l'interculturalisme." Anne Chalard-Fillaudeau (Ed. & Trans). Le Complexe français. Quelle place pour les études et sciences de la culture en France? Ed. Anne Chalard-Fillaudeau., Revue d’Etudes Culturelles, Dijon, Abell, n°5, automne 2009
Articles in enciclopedias
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate “The relevance of different kinds of supporting materials” 6.87.6.2.1. In Tania Franco Carvalhal, Dolores Romero (Eds.) 6.87.6 Comparative literature in the age of global change, and In 6.87 The role of comparative literature in the sharing of knowledge and in the preservation of cultural diversity Social Sciences and Humanities. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK. 2006 [http://www.eolss.net]
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate “Virtual Trips” 6.87.6.2.6 In Tania Franco Carvalhal, Dolores Romero (Eds.) 6.87.6 Comparative literature in the age of global change, also in 6.87 The role of comparative literature in the sharing of knowledge and in the preservation of cultural diversity. Social Sciences and Humanities. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK. 2006 [http://www.eolss.net]
Proceedings
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate “Studies on Intermediality as Intercultural Mediation” European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) 2nd European Communication Conference Barcelona 2008, 25-28 november 2008. ISBN: 978-84-490-2570-6
Contact:
Asun López-Varela [alopezva@filol.ucm.es]
Asun López-Varela [clcweb1@purdue.edu]