EDUARDO VALLS OYARZUN

I am an Associate Professor (accredited as Full Professor since July 2023) with over twenty years of experience in the fields of English Studies, Literary Studies, and Film Studies. My research adopts a critical perspective informed by philosophy and literature, particularly through cultural materialism and new materialism.

My critical edition of The Perfect Wagnerite (El perfecto Wagneriano, by G. B. Shaw; Madrid: Alianza, 2011) and my monograph Dueños del tiempo y del espanto: Genealogía nietzscheana de la narrativa inglesa del siglo XIX (Madrid: Escolar y Mayo, 2017) allowed me to articulate the results of a decade-long inquiry into the notion of responsibility as an identity marker within modern and contemporary communities. Building upon these findings, I subsequently expanded my work toward identity studies within the framework of new materialist thought.

In recent years, drawing on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, I have further developed this line of research to re-examine the concept of subjectivity and its political significance beyond ideological frameworks. These ideas are explored in several high-impact, peer-reviewed journal articles, including: “Chambers of Consciousness and Houses of Life: Nietzschean Hermeneutics in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan” Neophilologus, 107.4 (2023), “Deleuzian Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)” (English Studies, 103.1) or “A Matter of Extreme Indelicacy: Neo-Victorian Critical Memory in Kind Hearts and Coronets” (Nordic Journal of English Studies, 20.1). Common themes across these articles led me to formulate the hypothesis that new materialist strategies for countering ideology can effectively overcome conflictive narratives and confrontational identity work in the context of contemporary populism—an idea I first developed in my monograph James Bond contra el Dr. Brexit (Madrid: GEE, 2021).

The development of this hypothesis has enabled me to secure funding for the research project “BREXIT, NATIONALISM(S) AND POST-EMPIRE: CULTURE WARS AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NARRATIVES,” awarded approx. €90,000 by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (project reference PID2023-149943OB-I00, September 2024 – December 2028), for which I serve as Principal Investigator.

I have applied the expertise developed through my research to the supervision of thirteen completed PhD dissertations, with three additional theses currently in progress. Six of the doctoral graduates under my supervision presently hold teaching positions at various universities. My research has been conducted within five competitive projects (other than the project I lead presently)—one as Principal Investigator (PR26/16-6B-2) and four as a research team member (PR41/06-14961, HUM2007-62226/FILO, FFI2012-32594, and PID2019-105781RB-I00).

My international projection is reinforced not only by research stays at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Oxford, the University of Nottingham and Leiden University—where I completed an MA in English and American Literature—but also by my substantial international publication record (nearly all of my articles appear in top-tier journals), participation in international conferences, and organization of major international academic events, most notably “Reading Nature” (2011), held in partnership with the British Council.

I currently serve on the Executive Board of the Fundación Hispano Británica, an institution that collaborates with the British Council and the British Government through the British Embassy. In this capacity, I organize ongoing outreach seminars and academic exchange activities. Additionally, I teach training courses for secondary education teachers and design service-learning initiatives through the Centro Territorial de Innovación y Formación (CTIF), integrating the results of my research into educational practice.

Finally, I have collaborated—and still do—with various media outlets—including Cadena SER, COPE, Radio Nacional, and RTVE—primarily through interviews and, on occasion, in an advisory capacity.

My most recent publication is a critical edition — comprising introduction, translation, and notes — of Los 39 escalones; Mantoverde (The Thirty-Nine Steps; Greenmantle by John Buchan), published in a single volume by Ediciones Cátedra (Buchan, J. (2025). Los 39 escalones; Mantoverde (ed. crit., transl., and notes by E. Valls Oyarzun). Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN 978-84-376-4921-4). I currently serve as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Facultad de Filología, Complutense University of Madrid, having held the post since 2018.

 

Publicaciones / Publications

Books, Monographs and Critical Editions (selection)

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo (ed. y trad.). Los 39 escalones / Mantoverde, de John Buchan, 660 págs. Madrid, Cátedra (Letras Populares), 2025, ISBN: 978-84-376-4921-4.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. James Bond contra el Dr. Brexit (Nuevos contextos ideológicos de 007). Madrid, GEE (Guillermo Escolar Editor), 2020, ISBN: 978-84-18093-20-3.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. Dueños del tiempo y del espanto: genealogía nietzscheana de la responsabilidad en la narrativa victoriana. 320 págs. Madrid, Escolar y Mayo, 2017, ISBN: 9788416020911.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo, (ed. y trad.). Al otro lado del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí, de Lewis Carroll. 258 págs. Madrid, Escolar y Mayo, 2016, ISBN: 978-84-16020-37-9.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo, (ed. y trad.). Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, de Lewis Carroll. 210 págs. Madrid, Escolar y Mayo, 2015, ISBN: 978-84-16020-36-2.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo, (ed. y trad.). Grandes esperanzas, de Charles Dickens. 747 págs. Madrid, Escolar y Mayo, 2014, ISBN: 978-84-16020-07-2.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo, (ed. y trad.). El perfecto wagneriano, de George Bernard Shaw. 358 págs. Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2011, ISBN: 978-84-690-0879-9.

 

Edited Volumes (selection)

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo, Rebeca Gualberto, Noelia Malla, María Colom y Rebca Cordero (eds.). Avenging Nature. New York, Lexington Books / Rowman and Litterfield, 2020. 280 págs. ISBN: 978-1-7936-2144-3.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (selection)

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Mimic the Strata or What is Becoming About Becoming The Thing.” Horror Studies, 15.1 (2024). ISSN: 2040-3275..

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Chambers of Consciousness and Houses of Life: Nietzschean Hermeneutics in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan” Neophilologus, 107.4 (2023). ISSN: 1572-8668.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “The Ladykillers: From Victorian Dream to Neo-Victorian Nightmare” Comedy Studies, 14.2 (2023). ISSN: 2040-610X.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Deleuzian Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)”. English Studies, 103.1 (2022). ISSN: 0013-838X.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “A Matter of Extreme Indelicacy: Neo-Victorian Critical Memory in Kind Hearts and Coronets”. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 21.1 (2022). ISSN: 1130-5029.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Tell Us, Irma, Tell Us!: Refashioning Neo-Victorian Memory in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)”. Brno Studies in English, 47.1 (2021). ISSN: 0524-6881.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Políticas del conflicto en “The Duel”, de Joseph Conrad”. Revista de Humanidades, 40 (2020): 109-132, ISSN: 1130-5029.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Lecturas sin corazón: (Re)semantización estética de la crueldad en The Birthday of the Infanta”. Estudios Irlandeses, 15-1 (2020): 130-142, ISSN: ISSN: 1699-311X.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo y Sonia Madrid Medrano “Revelaciones de Pan y Luna: Revisión de la recepción de Virgilio en la época victoriana”. Ágora: Estudios Clasicos em Debate, 22, (2020): 247-266, ISSN: 0874-5498.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Teoría y práctica de la amistad: resemantización populista avant-la-lettre en “The Devoted Friend””. Anuario de Estudios Filológicos, 43 (2020): 289-308, ISSN: 0210-8178.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Tying Bond(s) of Resurrection On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”. Amaltea: revista de mitocrítica 9 (2017) 43-60, ISSN: 1989-1709.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Operas Unpleasant or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto”, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens (2017) 18-37, ISSN 2265-9587.

 

Book chapters (selection)

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. "La literatura de cosas no vistas: Henry James «visto» por Carlos Pujol". Carlos Pujol y la reescritura de la tradición. 35-46. Eds. Teresa Vallès-Botey y Domingo Ródenas de Moya , Zaragoza: P. de la Universidad de Zaragoza. 2025, ISBN 978-84-1340-823-1.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Woke Gal Gone Bad: Populism and Gender Trouble in Wrong Turn (2021)”. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Gender Debates in Contemporary Cinema. 11-32. Eds. Noelia Gregorio García and Carmen Méndez García. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 2024. ISBN 978-3-031-53277-1.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “El gran palimpsesto de Charles Dickens”. Representaciones del viaje: metáforas, imágenes, textos. 113-124. Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-0343-3880-6. 

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Sinécdoque: Benet o las regiones nietzscheanas del estilo”. La recepción de Nietzsche en España. 181-202. Bern: Peter Lang, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-0343-3321-4.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Synecdoche: Bob Dylan from Organic Myth to Fractal Myth”. Nuevas formas del mito: una metodología interdisciplinar. 157-174. Berlín: Logos Verlag, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-8325-4040-1.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “From Holy Grail to Sangrail: Towards a Genealogy of Responsibility”. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies. 193-208. Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Editorial Complutense, 2011. ISBN: 978-84-694-2866-5.

Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. “Nueva sublimación poética de la naturaleza: The Whale en el siglo XXI”. Resistencia en teoría. 180-198. Madrid: Verbum, 2010. ISBN: 978-84-7962-648-8.