Maria Jose Alvarez Maurin

Maria Jose Alvarez Maurin is a Full Professor at the University of Leon within the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Department of Modern Philology. Her academic work intersects gender studies and environmental humanities through the research group GEHUMECO, while also contributing to translation and censorship research via the TRACE group.

• Education: PhD in English Philology from the University of Oviedo (1992), thesis on the evolution of the detective formula with contributions from Dashiell Hammett, supervised by Dr. Urbano Viñuela Angulo

Her research focuses on posthumanist approaches to gender, environmental humanities, and the history of translation practices under censorship regimes. She leads interdisciplinary collaborations bridging literary analysis with contemporary cultural theory.