Department: Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana

Institute/Center: Centro de Estudios sobre el Impacto Social de la Inteligencia Artificial

Universidad: University of Oviedo

Area: English Philology

Research group: GREC Grupo de Estudios Cervantinos

Email: mjfaedo@uniovi.es

Phone: +34 985194552

Address: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Humanidades "El MIlán", s/n, C/ Franciaco Rodríguez Garcia, s/n, 33011 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Doctor by the Universidad de Oviedo with the thesis El papel de la mujer frente a la rebeldía de los héroes de John Osborne a nivel textual y social 1998. Supervised by Dr. Patricia Shaw.

Dr María José Álvarez Faedo is a senior lecturer at the University of Oviedo (accredited as a University Professor by ANECA since 18 October 2024). She specialises in Comparative Literature, English Theatre, Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, and 18th- and 19th-century English Literature. She was Director of International Relations with North America and the Rest of the World (May 2016-March 2021) in the Vice-Rectorate for University Extension and International Projection, and Head of the Department of Anglo-Germanic and French Philology (currently the Department of English, French and German Philology) at the University of Oviedo (2011-2015) (previously, Deputy Head of the same Department in the period 2008-11), and Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Humanistic Research, which includes seven lines of research from six departments of the Faculty of Humanities (2013-2017); coordinator of the line of research in European Languages, Cultures and Literatures and their Diasporas of that doctoral programme (2013-October 2019; 14/09/2020 - 31/01/2021 and January 2024-ongoing); and coordinator of the Master's Degree in European Cultural Identities: Texts and Contexts (2009-11). She has supervised 15 doctoral theses and served as a member of the examining board for 21 thesis defences. She is also the director of four pre-doctoral research grants (three from the Severo Ochoa Regional Plan and one from the University of Oviedo) and was the director of two other grants from the FICYT Regional Plan. As a member of the GREC research group at the University of Oviedo, she has participated as a researcher in six research projects, both regional and national, and one European project, on the reception of Don Quixote (in England, in her case). She is currently the Principal Investigator of a recently awarded National Plan project, involving six researchers from the University of Oviedo and nine others from different universities in various countries. From 2006 to 2025, she was also part of the research team led by María Luisa Candau Chacón at the University of Huelva, which was awarded two other National Plan research projects to investigate the passions and emotions of Spanish and English female authors of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.