Libe Garcia Zarranz

Libe Garcia Zarranz is a Professor of Cultural Theory and Literatures in English in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. She is also a Research Affiliate for the Centre for Literatures in Canada at the University of Alberta and serves on the Advisory Board of the Society for the Study of Affect, the Editorial Boards of The Raymond Carver Review and the Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research, and the Scholarly Book Awards Committee run by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta (Canada)
• MA in Textual and Cultural Studies from the University of Zaragoza (Spain)

Garcia Zarranz works at the intersection of contemporary literary studies in Canada, visual cultures, and affect theory, with a focus on feminist, queer, crip, and trans approaches. Her research explores how affective experiences shape cultural production and pedagogical practices, particularly through marginalized perspectives. She examines how literature and visual culture can generate sustainable ethical frameworks that challenge normative structures of power and representation. Her work consistently engages with questions of relationality, embodiment, and resistance across diverse cultural contexts.

Her publication record demonstrates a sustained focus on Canadian literature, trans studies, affect theory, and feminist approaches to cultural production. The most recent works show increasing engagement with visual culture, animation studies, and pedagogical applications of theoretical frameworks. Her scholarship reveals consistent thematic concerns with paradox, exposure, and willfulness as methodological approaches to understanding marginalized experiences.

Her scientific achievements include:

• Governor General's Gold Medal (2013)
• The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (2010-2013)
• The President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction (2010-2012)
• Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (2010-2012)
• Anna Rutherford Young Researchers Grant (2017)
• Publication Grant from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (2016)
• International Research Funding from NTNU's Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences (2018)

Garcia Zarranz leads the TransLit research group at NTNU, which focuses on Sustainable Ethics, Affects, and Pedagogies. She has received significant research funding for her work, including international collaborations with institutions in Canada, Spain, and other European countries. Her teaching portfolio includes Master's Thesis supervision in English, English 1 (5-10) modules, and PhD courses focused on Theory and Ethics. She has also taught at the University of Cambridge, University of Innsbruck, and University of Manitoba.

Her current research projects include Cinema and Environment 2: Ways of Seeing beyond the Anthropocene (2024-27), Communitas/Immunitas: Relational Ontologies in Atlantic Anglophone Cultures of the 21st Century (2023-2026), and the previously completed Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene (2020-2024) and Inclusive Science and European Democracies (ISEED) (2021-24).