Jesús Varela-Zapata - U. Santiago de Compostela

Jesús Varela-Zapata is a tenured professor of English Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) where he has held several posts such as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities; he also served as a member of the University Board. He has co-edited Diálogo de Culturas (1998), Lengua y Sociedad (2004), Linguistic Perspectives from the Classroom (2004), and several other volumes on cultural studies. He is the author of a book on V.S. Naipaul, El retrato de la sociedad post-colonial, (1998), and has also published a number of essays on writers such as Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Caryl Phillips, Nadine Gordimer or Barbara Kingsolver. He has been a member of the editorial board of journal Atlantis and is currently participating in res research projects in Britain, Portugal and Spain.