Doctora en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; ha sido profesora en la Universidad de Oxford Brookes y ahora en la IT University of Copenhagen. Tambien obtuvo su diplomatura en Filologia Española por la UNED en España.
Actualmente profesora en el “Department of Digital Aesthetics and Comunication, donde es miembro de “the Center for Computer Game Research” en la IT University.Más información en su pagina personal.
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Academic Education
- Doctor in Information Sciences by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for her phd thesis on Hypertext and Literature, 2001. The thesis was awarded the summa cum laude distinction.
- Licenciatura (MA equivalent) in Communication Sciences by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
- Diplomatura (BA equivalent) in Hispanic Philology by the UNED University, Spain.
Academic Positions held
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication, where she is a member of the Center for Computer Game Research. IT University, DK (from nov 2001, current position).
- Senior Lecturer in Electronic Publishing and Electronic Text at Oxford Brookes University, UK (2000-2001).
- Research position/Phd scholarship (FPI National Program) in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education (1997-2000).
Visiting Scholar Stays at other Universities
- Stay as a visiting scholar in Brown University, USA, (Autumn 1998).
- Stay as a visiting scholar in the Computing Humanities Unit of Oxford University, UK, (Autumn 1999).
- Stay as a visiting scholar at the James Joyce Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland, (Spring 2000).
- Stay as a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University, USA (Summer 2000).
Distinctions and Committees
- She received the Nelson Award, given by ACM to the best newcomer paper in the conference Hypertext 2000, for her paper "A Pragmatics of Links", June 2000.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conferences: ACM Hypertext (99, 00, 01, 02, 03); AACE WebNet (99, 00, 01); DAC (01, 03), WWW/Internet 2002, CGDC 02.
- Member of the Literary Advisory Board of ELO, the Electronic Literature Organization. She served as reviewer for the 2001 ELO Prize.
- Member of the Advisory Board of Dichtung Digital.
Other Research
- Member of the ODDPAW project, "Open-Source Design and Development of Persistent Game Worlds", funded by the Danish Forskningsstyrelsen (2004-2006)
- Member of the LaCoMoCo project at ITU (2003-ongoing)
- Member of research project "Discourse units and the Rhetoric of the different Media" (1998-2001), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, as digital text specialist.
- Member of EU-research project "TEECH-in Transactive Exploration of European Cultural Heritage - in Intercultural Teams" (2000-2001), as hypertext and digital education consultant.
- Member of EU-research project (Leonardo da Vinci Program) nº LV/99/2/09046/PI/II.1.1.c/CONT "Intellectual Property Management Training in Electronic Publishing: Bringing Traditional Media into Multimedia Environments", as evaluator and validator representing Oxford Brookes University. (2001)
- Research project on Nazi Propaganda Strategies in the Department of Social Communication History of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, funded by the same University (year 94/95).
Editing and related projects
- Co-founder and editor in the first international academic journal on computer games, Gamestudies.
- Hypertext theme editor, JoDI, Journal of Digital Information, University of Southampton, UK. She has edited two special issues: "Hypertext Criticism", 2001, and “Hypertext Criticism: Writing about Hypertext, 2003.
- Editor of the Internet web-site: HIPERTULIA, a forum dedicated to hypertextual theory and hypertext fiction (from November 1997)
- She has worked in the first Spanish on-line literary magazine since its foundation in year 1996, Espéculo.
Consultancy work
- External evaluator for ENAE project. 2003
- Experience as external evaluator for University Courses and grant programmes.
- Experience as digital text consultant for various publishing houses in spain.
Other work
Before earning her phd, Susana worked as freelance reader, editor and translator for several Spanish publishing houses. Even earlier, she worked in PR, journalism and teaching English to primary school and high school children.
When not working...
Susana is an avid reader, roleplayer and gamer, and most likely practices too little sport. More importantly, she is a dedicated socializer and enjoys her family and friends company above all else. She travels to her home country, Spain, as often as she can.
