Aránzazu Fuentes Ríos

Aránzazu Fuentes Ríos is an Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela and a member of the Competitive Reference Group GI-1371 (Literary Theory and Comparative Literature). With an international academic trajectory, she has held positions at the University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France), served as a predoctoral fellow at the Université du Maine and the University of Santiago de Compostela, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Richmond (VA, USA).

Her research interests focus on the theory of 19th-century literary history, cultural networks of the 19th and early 20th centuries, literary cartography, the figure of the poet-critic, and the construction of intimate space in epistolary writings. Her methodological approach integrates literary theory, historical analysis, and spatial humanities, with a particular emphasis on Spanish, Galician, and transatlantic literary connections. Fuentes Ríos has developed a distinctive research line examining how private and public spaces interact within epistolary writings.

Her scholarly output reveals a clear evolution from early work on modernist revision (Machado and Eliot) toward increasingly sophisticated applications of literary cartography and spatial analysis to Spanish and Galician literature. Her recent publications demonstrate a growing engagement with digital humanities methodologies and geospatial analysis, particularly in her work on Rosalía de Castro and Santiago de Compostela's literary geography.

Fuentes Ríos actively participates in numerous research projects including: The inscription of cultural memory in public space; Epistolarios unpublished in Spanish culture since 1936; Cartographies of affect and public uses of memory; The projection of place: Compostela in its geoliterary imagination; and Methodological bases for a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. Her archival research spans multiple institutions including the Unamuno House, Camilo José Cela Foundation, Emilia Pardo Bazán Fund, Eugenio Granell Foundation, and Valle-Inclán House Museum.