The Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) is a public research university located in Madrid, Spain. The nearly 80,000 students enrolled at UCM are served by over 11,100 academic and professional support staff. 10.2% of the students at UCM are international.
Julia Oeri
Julia Oeri holds a PhD in French Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid (2017), she is currently Assistant Professor in the area of French in the Department of Romance, French, Italian and Translation Studies at the same university. Her main lines of research are ecocriticism, gender studies and literary bilingualism. She belongs to two research groups: GIECO at the University of Alcalá and Literary and Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the Complutense University. She is secretary of Thélème. Complutense Journal of French Studies. Within TRIP, Julia is the coordinator of the UCM team collaborates in leading PR2 with Rennes 2 University.
Beatriz Martín Gascón
Beatriz Martín-Gascón holds a PhD (international mention and cum laude) in Languages and Cultures from Universidad de Córdoba. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid(Spain), where she teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules mainly about pragmatics, advanced grammar, academic discourse, and general linguistics. She also supervises BA, MA, and PhD students. Her research interests include applied cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, L2 teaching-learning, metaphor, irony, and emotions. Beatriz has contributed to the design and implementation of TRIP PR2.
Carmen Chacón García
Carmen Chacón García holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and she is an Assistant Professor in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she works since 2018. She has worked in different institutions in France (Université Paris Dauphine, Université Panthéon-Assas, Instituto Cervantes de Paris) and in Spain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Universidad de Burgos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). Her research areas are lexical variation in Spanish, acquisition of second languages and technology as a tool for transforming, organizing and enhancing knowledge from Spanish linguistic data. She has published in national and international journals (Journal of Spanish Language Teaching or Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación) and she has been part of national and international projects (VARILEX, DIRETES). She is also member (translator-linguist) of the Académie des Sciences Commerciales in France. Within TRIP, Carmen has contributed to PR2.
Johanna Vollmeyer
Johanna Vollmeyer is a research associate at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her publications deal largely with memory and its relation to trauma, power and violence, as well as constructions of identity and alterity in contemporary German literature. Currently she is investigating new conceptualization of time and memory in the postdigital era. She was part of the research project RecLit. Cultural Recycling: Transliteratures in the Postdigital Age. Her PhD was awarded with the Premio Extraordinario (Award for extraordinary achievements) of the Universidad Complutense. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) and responsible for the MSA Fellowship “Memory Scholars at Risk”. In 2019 she was a co-organizer of the Annual Memory Studies Conference held at UCM in Madrid, which was attended by over 1.300 scholars. She also has completed various research stays at the invitation of Astrid Erll (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) and Michael Rothberg (UCLA). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-5605. Johanna has contributed to the development of the IVSC German edition.
Mercedes Pérez Agustin
Mercedes Pérez Agustín holds a PhD in Northamerican Literature. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at UCM where she teaches English as a Foreign Language, Curriculum Design and Methodologies to Preschool and Primary Teachers. She has also led a research project focused on the benefits of picturebooks to teach English as a Second Language as well as Directed a Bilingual Program for undergraduate preschool and primary teachers. She is an author and co-author on several books and articles where she provides guidelines to teachers on the selection and implementation of stories and picturebooks to foster different subjects and interculturality. She also cooperates with National government institutions on teacher training at different stages around Spain. Within TRIP project, Mercedes participates in PR1, PR2 Environment. Within TRIP, Mercedes was responsible for the translation of the outputs and has contributed to the development of the International Virtual Societal Challenge.
Mohammed Dahiri
Mohammed DAHIRI holds a PhD Cum Laude in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He also completed doctoral studies in Comparative Literature and Translation at the Mohamed V University of Rabat. He furthered his education at the universities of Granada and Seville, at the Università di Bologna and at ITD-Amherst (Massachusetts), obtaining a Master's degree in "Community Intervention in Migration Processes", a DEA in Arab and Islamic Studies and five Higher Diplomas in International Migration, Interculturality, Muslim Minorities, Diversity Management and Human Rights. He is a lecturer in the Arab and Islamic Studies Department at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is also a researcher at the University Institute of Religious Sciences at the same University and a lecturer and founding member of the UNESCO Chair in Conflict Resolution and Culture of Peace at the University of Cordoba. His lines of research focus on the study of international migration, the analysis of Islam and the management of religious and cultural diversity in Spain and Europe. At the same time, he carries out a rich research work on "Moroccan literature in exile". Within TRIP project, Mohammed participates in PR1, PR2 Race and PR3. Within TRIP, Mohammed has contributed to PR1.
Xiana Sotelo
Xiana Sotelo holds a PhD in Literary-Cultural and Gender Studies in North American Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is an Assistant Professor in the English Studies Department in the Faculty of Philology in Complutense University where she teaches U.S Literature. Her main lines of research are: Literary and Cultural Studies in English-speaking countries, Gender-Women's Studies (Intersectionality, intercultural dialogues –Ecofeminism), Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice and Environmental Humanities (ethnicity, ‘race’, and the legacy of colonization); Critical thinking and Innovation in the Humanities. She is a member of the Institute of Feminist Studies – INSTIFEM UCM. During the academic year 2022-23 she has been a UCM postdoctoral researcher at the B. Franklin Institute of North American Studies-University of Alcalá, within the research group GIECO on Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Within TRIP project, Xiana participates in PR2 Race- Gender.
Elena Domínguez Romero
Elena Domínguez Romero is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Her recent research interests include evidentiality and stance in media discourse, applied linguistics, and innovative teaching research. She currently co-leads a research project on stance strategies in discourse related to immigration and racism (RACISMMAFF, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and FEDER funds, reference PID2021-125327NB-I00). Elena Domínguez Romero is co-editor of the volumes Transformative Trends in Language Learning (Peter Lang, 2024), Rethinking Multimodal Literacy in Theory and Practice (Peter Lang, 2023), Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues (Peter Lang 2023), Visual Literacy and Digital Communication (Comares, 2022), Teaching Literature and Language through Multimodal Texts (IGI Global, 2018), Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages (Peter Lang 2017), or Thinking Modally: English and Contrastive Studies on Modality (Cambridge Scholars 2015). She has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Additionally, she has authored numerous book chapters with DeGruyter, ELT Council, Routledge, Springer, Palgrave, Peter Lang, IGI Global, Multilingual Matters, Bloomsbury, and McGraw Hill. Elena has mainly contributed to the development of the Intercultural Virtual Societal Challenge (PR2).
Azucena Barahona
Azucena Barahona holds a PhD in Linguistic, Literary, and Theatre Studies from the University of Alcalá. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Faculty of Philology (Complutense University of Madrid). Her research focuses on English language methodology, particularly, English for Specific Purposes, including discourse analysis, digital environments, and the development of authentic materials. She is also interested in bilingual Spanish-English education, Spanish as a foreign language, and the sociocultural and intercultural approach to foreign language teaching and learning. She has participated in national and international conferences (AELFE, AESLA, ASELE, AELINCO), has written book chapters for prestigious publishers (Peter Lang, Dykinson, Comares), and has authored scholarly articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals (Onomázein, RNAEL). Additionally, she has taken part in several Innova-Docencia projects (she is currently the lead researcher of the project: Creation of a Digital Repository for Teaching and Learning English for Specific Purposes) and in Erasmus+ teaching exchanges (Queen Mary University of London, Univerzita Karlova, Københavns Universitet). She also serves as a DELE examiner and SEPIE evaluator, among other roles. Within the TRIP project, she participates in the Intercultural Virtual Societal Challenge (PR2).