Juan Francisco Belmonte Avila es Profesor Ayudante Doctor (acreditado para la figura de Contratado Doctor) en el Departamento de Estudios Ingleses. Tras completar su Licenciatura en Filología Inglesa y un Máster Oficial en Literatura Comparada Europea en la Universidad de Murcia, obtuvo una beca predoctoral Fulbright “Fulbright Graduate Students Program” (2009/11) para cursar estudios de doctorado en Indiana University, Estados Unidos. Completó sus estudios de doctorado tras disfrutar de una beca de FPI en España (2011/15) y obtener la calificación de Cum laude en su tesis doctoral “Corporeality, identity and digital culture: gender and sexuality in video games”. Como parte de su formación predoctoral, ha realizado estancias en McGill University, Canadá, IT University de Copenhague, Dinamarca y la Universidad de Essex, Reino Unido. Dentro de su investigación postdoctoral cabe destacar la obtención de una beca de investigación postdoctoral Fulbright-SAAS para el curso 2019/20 y su pertenencia al grupo de investigación financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades “PGC2018-095393-B-I00 Temporalidades Queer en la Cultura Anglófona Contemporánea (Literatura, Cine y Videojuegos)”. Con anterioridad ha pertenecido a los proyectos FFI2008-05614 - Periferias de lo Queer: Representaciones, Corporealidades, Geografias (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia), FFI2011-24211 - Periferias de lo Queer II: Espacio, Cuerpo, Cultura Material (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) y FFI2014-54391-P Periferias de lo Queer III: Transnacionalidades, Micropolíticas (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad). El Profesor Belmonte ha participado en la organización de los congresos internacionales 6th Languaging Diversity International Conference (Universidad de Zaragoza), 16th Culture + Power Conference (Universidad de Murcia) y 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games. Su investigación se centra en el estudio de los discursos de identidad desde los Estudios Culturales, Game Studies, American Studies y Film Studies.

Juan Francisco Belmonte Avila is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies. After completing his degree in English Studies and a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Murcia, he obtained a Fulbright Scholarship and spent two years at Indiana University as a PhD student. At the end of his time as a Fulbright scholar he obtained a government-funded grant (FPI) to complete his doctoral dissertation, titled “Corporeality, identity and digital culture: gender and sexuality in video games”. He has been a visiting researcher at international institutions such as McGill University, the IT University of Copenhagen and the University of Essex, and has received a postdoctoral Fulbright Scholarship for the academic year 2019/20 to carry out research at the University of Utah. He is, and has been, a member of four national research projects on the areas of Queer Theory, Cinema Studies, and Game Studies. Professor Belmonte has also been a member of the organizing committees of international conferences such as the 6th Languaging Diversity International Conference, the16th Culture + Power Conference, and the 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games. He has published widely on Comparative Cultural Studies, Game Studies, American Studies, and Film Studies.