Diana Castilleja
Biography
Diana Castilleja is professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles.
She holds a PhD degree in Hispanic studies (Université de la Sorbonne), a Master’s degree in Literature (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico) and a degree in communication (Tecnológico de Monterrey - ITESM CEM. Research fellow at the KULeuven. Guest professor at: UGent, UAntwerpen, U. Liege, ULB in Belgium; the Université de Haute Alsace and the Université de Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès (France) and the Universidad de Málaga (Spain). President of the Asociación de Hispanistas del Benelux-AHBx (2020-2023) of which she was also a founding member in 2004. Currently she is co-director (with R. Enghels, UGent) of the research project ‘CROS: Crossing the border between Spanish and other languages’, where she focuses on Latin American migration to the USA. And co-director of the project ‘Redes y Rutas’ on Exile and Spanish/Latin American women writers (with E. Houvenaghel, UUtrecht and Ma. C. Alfonso, U. Oviedo). Member of the Cost-Action iCOn-MICs.
Her research interests deal with, autofiction, comics, exile, intermediality and migration in Spanish and Latin American literature (20th and 21st centuries) and/or in comparison with another literatures. Publications: She authored L’essai: perspectives théoriques et l’exemple hispano-américain (2008), and co-edited various special issues and volumes, including Variedades del español: aproximaciones desde la sociolingüística, la pragmática, la traducción y la interpretación (2024); Cruzando fronteras: español e inglés en contacto. Prácticas lingüísticas, ideologías e identidades (2021), Ensayo hispánico y sociedad: Diálogos de un género en movimiento (2014); El ensayo hispánico: Cruces de géneros, síntesis de formas (2012).
Location
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium