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Eduardo Valls Oyarzun is Associate Professor of English and American literature at the English Department, Complutense University of Madrid, where he obtained his PhD after taking his Master’s Degree in English and American Literature at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He specializes in Nineteenth Century Literature and the History of Ideas. His academic interests comprise the relationship between Nietzsche’s philosophy and 19th Century British Literature, Neo-Victorian Aesthetics and Cultural Studies (film, music and literature). He has published extensively on Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Lewis Carroll. He has completed several research stays in such universities as Edinburgh, Nottingham, Leiden or Bard College among others. He is a member of the Joseph Conrad Society (London), the International Travel Writing Association and the Spanish Association of American Studies (SAAS), he currently serves as  Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Facultad de Filología (Faculty of Languages and Literature), UCM.

 

Eduardo Valls Oyarzun es Profesor Titular del Departamento de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y Literatura de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde obtuvo su título de Doctor Europeo (2006) tras haber cursado el Máster en Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana de la Universidad de Leiden (Países Bajos). Especialista en literatura victoriana e historia de las ideas, sus intereses académicos abarcan la relación entre la filosofía de Nietzsche y la literatura del siglo diecinueve en Gran Bretaña, la estética neo-victoriana o los estudios culturales (cine, música y literatura). Ha publicado de forma extensa sobre la obra de Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, Alfred, Lord Tennyson y Lewis Carroll. Ha desarrollado estancias de investigación en las universidades de Edimburgo, Nottingham, Leiden o Bard College (NY, USA). Miembro de la Joseph Conrad Society (Londres), la International Travel Writing Association y la Sociedad Española de Estudios Norteamericanos (SAAS), actualmente desempeña el cargo de Vicedecano de Ordenación Académica de la Facultad de Filología, UCM.