Manuela Palacios and Arturo Casas

Manuela Palacios and Arturo Casas

Manuela Palacios is Profesora Titular of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She has directed four research projects on contemporary Irish and Galician literature that have been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and has edited and co-edited several books in relation to this topic: Pluriversos (2003), Palabras extremas (2008), Writing Bonds (2009), Creation, Publishing and Criticism (2010), To the Winds Our Sails (2010), Forked Tongues (2012), Six Galician Poets (2016) and Migrant Shores (2017). Her other publications include translations of European and Arabic poetry and fiction, a monograph on Virginia Woolf’s pictorial imagery, Shakespeare’s Richard III, and articles on ecocriticism.

Arturo Casas is Profesor Titular of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He has a wide set of research interests including Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Literary History, and 20th century Galician and Spanish poetry. Additionally, he is a member of the Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa (Universidade do Porto) and of the Grupo Intermedialidades, coordinated by Rosa Maria Martelo. He is also a member of EcoLab.gal, Laboratorio Galego de Ecocrítica, coordinated by César Domínguez.