Lydia Vazquez - Curriculum Vitae#
Professor of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Euskadi, Spain.
Specialisms: French and comparative literature (Spain/France, Literature/Visual arts); 18th-c. literature; literature and gender; animal studies; libertine literature; literature and eroticism.
Literary translator of Cyrano de Bergerac, Marivaux, Rousseau, Diderot, Sade, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gide, Desnos, Carco, Annie Ernaux, Annie Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste del Amo, Abdellah Taïa, Laurent Petitmangin, Gabrielle Wittkop, Marie-Claire Blais, Fatima Daas...
Numerous awards for literary translation
Principal investigator, co-director or researcher for various projects or research groups including currently 'L'animal sur scène en France au XXe siècle' (UV, UPV/EHU, UBU, Paris-Sorbonne), P.I. Ignacio Ramos, University of Valencian.
Principal investigator of the GIGEF (Grupo de Investigación de Género de Estudios Franceses) research group based at UPV/EHU
Organiser of numerous congresses, colloquia, international study days etc. at UPV/EHU on topics in comparative literature, literature and gender, animal studies.
Collaborations with museum curators at the Paris Louvre (Guillaume Faroult) and Bilbao Guggenheim
Director of special issues of journals: Marivaux moderne et libertin (RSH, 2008), La anécdota, Cédille (2007)
Director of Festschrifts forJuli Leal (Himeros, 2010) and Isabel Herrero (UPV/EHU, 2008)
Numerous conferences and study days organised in Spain and France.
Multiple keynotes in Spain and other European countries.
Supervisor of 12 theses, all with top class, most of them international/European joint degrees. 3 thesis supervisions under way.
Member of numerous boards (advisory, scientific etc.) for leading Spanish and foreign periodicals.
Author of numerous academic publications as well as ones intended for a wider audience on research topics including 18th-c.
French literature, women's literature, libertine literature, France and Spain's literary relations etc.
Total number of publications: 245
- 73 on the 18th century
- 38 relating to gender studies
- 10 Animal Studies
- 51 Reception studies France/Spain
- 40 Critical Editions/Translations
- 30 Literature and the visual arts
