Short biography
Since 1994 Asunción López-Varela, has been a professor at Complutense University Madrid, Department of English. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies. Her research interests include semiotic aspects of space and time within literary representations, computer-assisted language learning, and the use of hypermedia technologies in teaching and research. She is the project leader of the SIIM Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation.