Jesús Varela Zapata
Jesús Varela Zapata is a professor of English Philology at Santiago de Compostela University. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Pro-Vice-Rector for Coordination of the Lugo Campus, as well as Director of the Domus do Mitreo University Museum. He is currently Collaborative Professor (Honorary) at the University of Kanazawa (Japan) and associate editor of Revue Plurilingue: Etudes des Langues, Littératures et Cultures. He is the author of various works on cultural, postcolonial and globalization studies. He has been a guest speaker at universities such as Cornell, New York; Ottawa and Aichi P. Nagoya.
@: varela.zapata@usc.es
“The Self Elsewhere: Walker’s Identity in the Wider World.” Carmen Rueda-Ramos and Susana Jiménez Placer, eds. Constructing the Self: Essays on Southern Life-Writing.Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2017.
“Roots in the Water: Derek Walcott’s Caribbean Voice.” Nexus (2017): 2, 19-24.
“Swift’s Fantasy as a Vindication of Tolerance.” Janelle Pötsch, ed. Jonathan Swift and Philosophy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
“El mapa miente: La centralidad perdida de Europa y Occidente.” Beatriz Fernández Herrero et al., eds. A Crise de Occidente. Lugo: Axac. 171-179, 2016.
“Glittering Sea or Mirage: Alternative Visions of the Caribbean Environment.” Kristian Van Haesendonck & Theo D´haen (eds.) Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 159-168, 2014.
“Still Postcolonial but Treading the Global Path.” J. Francisco Fernández and A. Moreno, eds. A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises: Essays on Contemporary Literature, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 1-14, 2014.
“La poética de un vicio: el juego de azar en la historia de la literatura inglesa”. Isabel N. Patim et al. Literratura & Jogo – Narrativas, Discursos, Representaçoes e Mitos. Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 67-74, 2014.
Sureña y Subalterna: Narrando la Rebelión de la Mujer en Alice Walker.” Constante González Groba, ed. Hijas del Viejo Sur. La Mujer en la Literatura Femenina del Sur de Estados Unidos. Valencia: PUV Universitat Valencia, 283- 306, 2012.
“The Canon Beyond Academia: Alternative Sources of Canonicity in Twentieth-Century Literature in English.” Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 7 (2008) 107-118. 2009.
Jesús Varela Zapata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he has held several posts such as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He is the author of a book on V.S. Naipaul, and has edited a number of books on applied linguistics and cultural studies. He has also published extensively and led research teams on postcolonial and global studies. He has been a guest speaker at universities such as Akdeniz, Cornell, Ottawa, Aichi Prefectural and Kanazawa. He is a member of the editorial team of the journals Atlantis and The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies.
E-mail: varela.zapata@usc.es
Recent Publications:
2009. “The Canon Beyond Academia: Alternative Sources of Canonicity in Twentieth-Century Literature in English.” Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 7 (2008) 107-118.
2012. “Sureña y Subalterna: Narrando la Rebelión de la Mujer en Alice Walker.” Constante González Groba, ed. Hijas del Viejo Sur. La Mujer en la Literatura Femenina del Sur de Estados Unidos. Valencia: PUV Universitat Valencia, 283- 306.
2014. “La poética de un vicio: el juego de azar en la historia de la literatura inglesa”. Isabel N. Patim et al. Literratura & Jogo – Narrativas, Discursos, Representaçoes e Mitos. Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 2014. 67-74.
2014. “Still Postcolonial but Treading the Global Path.” J. Francisco Fernández and A. Moreno, eds. A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises: Essays on Contemporary Literature, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 1-14.
2014. “Glittering Sea or Mirage: Alternative Visions of the Caribbean Environment.” Kristian Van Haesendonck & Theo D´haen (eds.) Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 159-168.
2016. “El mapa miente: La centralidad perdida de Europa y Occidente.” Beatriz Fernández Herrero et al., eds. A Crise de Occidente. Lugo: Axac. 171-179. ISBN: 978-84-92658-49-7.
2016 . “Swift’s Fantasy as a Vindication of Tolerance.” Janelle Pötsch, ed. Jonathan Swift and Philosophy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.