Contact information 

 jlnarvaez@ucm.es

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 Departamento de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y Literatura (UCM)

 

Julia López Narváez is an assistant professor at the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid. Julia holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting Studies (Autónoma University of Madrid). While at university, she spent a year at Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh) as an Erasmus student. She also holds a Master’s degree in Literary Translation at Complutense University of Madrid. She obtained a PhD at the same university (premio extraordinario). Her dissertation investigates the perception and construction of the fallen woman stereotype from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Her main areas of research are cultural and cognitive linguistics, with special attention to identity and stereotype constructions.

Publications

• (2024) Female Characters through the Traditional Male Lens: An Analysis of Alec d’Urberville’s Conceptualisations. En Daniel Martín González y Patricia Román Porras (Eds.) English Linguistics Meets the 21st Century (pp. 437-453), Dykinson
• (2024) El retrato femenino en The Return of the Native. Multiperspectiva y procesos relacionales en la identidad y caracterización literaria de Eustacia Vye. En Lucila Pérez Fernández y Richard Jorge (Eds.) Entrelazando lenguas y culturas: perspectivas actuales en torno a la Adquisición y didáctica de lenguas, Estudios lingüísticos y traducción, y Estudios culturales y literatura (pp. 590-614), Dykinson
• (2023) “Language and identity in the literature of fiction. The translation of idiolect and its effects in literary characterisation in Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ male characters”, en Transfer, 18(1), 257-280. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1344/transfer.2023.18.40325) 
• (2021): "From mommet to ugly : An analysis of the linguistic duality and idiolect of Tess Durbeyfield in the Spanish translations of Tess of the d’Urbervilles". In Hikma, 20 (2), 177-202. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21071/hikma.v20i2.13381)
• (2021): "La bruja transformada. El papel de la retraducción en la construcción del motivo literario", in Raudem, 9. 81-98. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v9i1.6411)
• (2020): “Storyworld Possible Selves, by María Ángeles Martínez” [review], in Miscelánea: A journal of English and American studies, 61, 145-149. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205146)

Selected oral communications

• (2025) “To Be Educated or to Attend School: Agency in Female Childhood Education in Biographies from 1891 to 1900”. "Narrating Lives" International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography, Cerdeña / online, 30 mayo-1 junio 2025.
• (2024) “Through the traditional male lens. Subjective conceptualisations in the construal of the morally unfit fallen woman”, en EL21C, UCM (online), 14-15 marzo 2024.
• (2023) “Conceptos de identidad en las adaptaciones de las novelas de Thomas Hardy”, en Brexit, Literatura y Post-Imperio: Identidad y Narrativas Contemporáneas, UCM, 24-25 octubre 2023
• (2022) "The role of multiperspective in identity construction: The case of Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native" in UPCEL 2022. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 25 January 2022.
• (2020) “The Construction of a Stereotype. The Fallen Woman Portrait in Tess of the d’Urbervilles through the Masculine Perspective” in UPCEL 2020. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 29 January 2020.
• (2018) “Variación lingüística e identidad literaria. El caso de Tess of the d’Urbervilles” in XVI Encuentros Complutenses en torno a la Traducción/International Symposium on Parallel Corpora (PaCor2018). Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6 November 2018.

Projects

• Female childhood across borders. A Cultural Linguistics approach to the English-based conceptualization and perception of female childhood. Evidence from biographical discourse 1750-1900. (FemChildLing) [Conceptualización y percepción histórica de la niñez de la mujer en el ámbito anglófono. Aplicación de modelos lingüístico-culturales al discurso biográfico: 1750-1900]. Proyecto I+D+i del Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Referencia: PID2020-117973GB-I00.
• (2024-2028): Brexit, nacionalismo(s) y post-imperio: Guerras culturales y las construcciones de la identidad en narrativas británicas contemporáneas. Proyecto I+D+i del Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Referencia: PID2023-147649NB-I00.

Management

• Member of the Quality Commission of the PhD Programme in English Linguistics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2019-2024)

Confereces and seminars organisation

• Member of the Organising committee IX Seminario de Lingüística Avanzada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11 March 2022
• Member of the Organising committee UPCEL2022. English on the move: discourse and cognitive-functional approaches to linguistic variation Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 24-25 January 2022
• Member of the Organising committee IV PhDay Complutense, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 7 October 2021
• Member of the Organising committee VIII Seminario de Lingüística Avanzada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1 March 2021
• Member of the Organising committee VII Seminario de Lingüística Avanzada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9 March 2020
• Member of the Organising committee UPCEL2020 English Linguistics and Diversity Awareness, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 29-30 January 2020
• Member of the Organising committee III PhDay Complutense, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 4 November 2019