Team
The HORES project is led by three professors from the University of Alcalá: María Jesús Fernández-Gil, Luisa Juárez-Hervás and Lorena Silos Ribas. It also includes Israel Doncel Martín, the Communication Director of the Sefarad-Israel Centre and an Associate Professor at Carlos III University of Madrid. The team is rounded out by María Goicoechea de Jorge from Complutense University of Madrid, whom has provided consultancy for the project.
María Jesús Fernández-Gil
Her teaching experience includes positions at the Complutense University of Madrid, Autonomous University of Madrid, UNIR, Camilo José Cela University and UNED. Her research interests focus on the representation of the Holocaust, the reception of artistic expressions related to it, ideological rewritings and the translation of official documents.
She was a member of the FITISPos research group at the University of Alcalá from 2012 to 2019 and is currently involved with the high-performance research group RECEPTION (University of Alcalá) and MIDEL: Memory and Literary and Cultural Identities (University of Alicante). She has participated in four publicly funded research projects and is currently a recipient of the Excellence Support Grant for Permanent University Faculty (Ref. EPU/INV/2020/015).
Luisa Juárez-Hervás
She completed her Master’s studies at Sussex University in the programme “Modernist and Postmodernist Literature in European and American Literature” and obtained a Master’s in Holocaust Studies from the University of London (Royal Holloway). She earned her PhD from the Complutense University with a thesis titled “Judaism and Feminism in the Short Stories of Grace Paley and Cynthia Ozick”.
She has participated in a publicly funded and competitive research project and has served as a guest editor for several Spanish and international journals. Currently, she directs the Master’s in North American Studies, an inter-university programme between UAH and UCM.
Lorena Silos Ribas
Lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology at the University of Alcalá. She earned her PhD from the Complutense University with a thesis titled The voice in memory: The construction of the literary subject from childhood memories in Swiss literature written by women, which received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award in 2008.
She has taught at the University of Bamberg, Queen Mary University of London, the Complutense University and the University of Barcelona. Her research interests focus on the literary representation of memory, reception studies and literary translation.
She is a member of the high-performance research groups RECEPTION (University of Alcalá) and INTRAL (Complutense University of Madrid) and has participated in seven publicly funded research projects obtained through competitive calls. She has served as a guest editor for several publications in Spain and abroad and is a member of the Scientific Committee for the specialised journal Revista de Filología Alemana.
Israel Doncel Martín
Associate Professor at Carlos III University of Madrid and ex-Head of Communication at the Sefarad-Israel Centre. He earned his PhD in Communication Research with a thesis titled “Internal public diplomacy as an exercise in institutional communication: An analysis of the Spanish case”.
He is the author of Comunicación corporativa en la era de la globalización (UNIR, 2010) and co-author of Emma Lazarus a los pies de la libertad (Huso, 2022), a biographical essay on Sephardic journalist Emma Lazarus. He has completed the Holocaust training course at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem (Israel) and, in 2022, he participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program organised by the U.S. Department of State, titled Countering Holocaust Distortion and Denial: The Role of New and Traditional Media. He is a member of the research project “Combating Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Xenophobia against Refugees and Migrants in Chile” at Carlos III University.
Colaborator
María Goicoechea de Jorge
Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and Coordinator of the Master’s in Digital Humanities.
Her research interests focus on literary and artistic reception within the realm of cyberculture. She has published extensively on cyberculture from the dual perspectives of science fiction and electronic literature, with a particular emphasis on changes in reading rituals, trans-literacy and the evolution of literary publishing formats.
Professor Goicoechea is a member of the LEETHI research group (UCM) and HERMENEIA (University of Barcelona), both of which are interdisciplinary groups dedicated to the study of literature and computing. She has served as Principal Investigator for the eLITE-CM project in Electronic Literary Publishing, co-funded 50% by the European Social Fund. She has curated several exhibitions of electronic literature and, alongside Laura Sánchez, is co-founder of the Ciberia Project, a website dedicated to promoting electronic literature. She is the author of Mi robot lunático (2019), an interactive story for children, and the editor of Proyecto Calleja Interactivo (2021), a collection of digitally enriched stories based on the works of Edith Nesbit.