Maya Zalbidea Paniagua is Assitant Professor of English Literary Studies at Complutense University of Madrid. Her areas of research are: electronic literature and cultural studies. She received her Ph.D from Complutense University of Madrid in 2011 obtaining the European Mention after her research stay at the Free University of Brussels. She worked as Spanish Teaching Assistant at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota, US) where she also received courses on Women Studies and Postmodernist Feminist Culture (2009), she also worked as Associate Professor at Camilo José Cela University teaching Morphosyntax, Semantics and Didactics (2012) and also as Full Professor at La Salle University Center of Madrid teaching English, CLIL and Technical English (2012-2013). She has published several articles, reviews and a chapter of a book related to electronic literature and postfeminist studies: “Cyberfeminist Theories and the Benefits of Teaching Cyberfeminist Literature” (InTech, 2012), “Exploiting Hypertext’s Potential for Teaching Gender Studies” (Texto Digital, 2012), “Ciberfeminismo: Teoría y Práctica” (E-Excellence, 2011), "Towards a Multimodal Analysis of da Rimini's Dollspace" (CLC Web, 2011). She is the coordinator of gender studies section of the Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation project, co-editor of the European E-Literature research project and reviewer of the journal of Literature and Art Studies. She is a member of Fembot (Feminism, new media, science and technology) and DDDL European Network of Digital Literature. Last year she organized the First International Conference on Electronic Literature and Virtual Art at the Franklin Institute, Alcalá de Henares University. Maya Zalbidea is currently working in the field of Spanish Electronic Literature in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base (2013-2014) at the University of Bergen. E-mail: mayazalbidea@gmail.com
