Rosa Fernández Urtasun is currently Full Professor of Literature at the University of Navarra. She teaches Modern and Contemporary Literature, Great Books programs and Theory of Art. She has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and researcher at the Center de Recherche en Littérature Comparée of the Sorbonne University and at the University of Strasbourg. She has given conferences in different national and international Universities like the University of Virginia (USA), Westminster College (USA) or the University of Costa Rica.

Her research covers three main fields. The Spanish literature of the first half of the twentieth century: the Generation of ‘27, focusing on avant-garde and poetry (“La dimensión mítica de los personajes vanguardistas. Una reflexión en torno a la teoría de Ortega y Gasset”, Dicenda 33 [2015]: 91-112; “Las vanguardias literarias francesas en la poesía española de los años 20”, Ínsula 742 (2008): 23-28), life writing and female literature, specifically the figure of Ernestina de Champourcin (Ernestina de Champourcin-Carmen Conde. Epistolario, Rosa Fernández Urtasun ed., Madrid: Castalia, 2007; R&D Project: “Letters of writers of the 20th as a Representation of Intellectual and Cultural History” (Government of Navarra, 2008-2010).

The second field is the relationships between literature and art (“Art, Literature, and New Technologies”, Performing cultures, Jakub Petri ed., Krakow, Libron, 2015: 261-270), in which she is currently focusing on the relationship between Tàpies and Brossa within the framework of the project “Esthetic experience in action. Antoni Tàpies: a new perspective” (PIUNA 2016-2018). Previously she took part in projects such as “The abandonment of figuration in contemporary arts” (ICS, University of Navarra, 2010-2013) or “Contemporary Artistic Languages” (Fundación Beaumont, 1998-2009).

The third field is the contemporary rewriting of the myth, a line she has followed for years in projects such as “New forms of myth: an interdisciplinary methodology” (MINECO 2012-2015), “Acis & Galatea. Research Activities in Cultural Myth Criticism” (Community of Madrid and European Social Fund, 2016-2018), “Aglaya. Research Strategies in Cultural Myth Criticism” (Community of Madrid and European Social Fund, 2019-2020). She has published several articles on this topic.

Professor Fernández Urtasun has given several national and international conferences and seminars, both in an academic level or addressed to a general audience. She has organized academic events at different levels (colloquia, international conferences, advanced courses for teachers) and has worked in academic management, having been member of the Board of Directors of the ILCE, of the Félix Huarte Chair of Aesthetics and of the Department of Philology (where she is currently vice-head). She has also been Vice Dean of Students and of Academic Management of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.