Mario
Aznar Perez

Mario Aznar holds an International PhD in Literary Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid. He completed his training at the University of Florence and in Naples, where he attended seminars at the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies. As a teacher and researcher, he has collaborated with the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Bergamo, the International University of La Rioja, and the University of Barcelona, where he has taught undergraduate and master's courses and has supervised more than thirty creative and research projects. His main research areas include the connection between theory and literary education, the analysis of reading processes, the comparative study of contemporary Hispanic narratives, and the multiple relationships between writing and image, with particular emphasis on multimodal writing and the expanded manifestations of art and literature. He is a member of the research group "E061-11 Plural Writings: Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity" (University of Murcia), the teaching group "ETILIJ: New Ethical and Democratic Values in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature" (University of Almería), the teaching innovation group "Tlön: Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity in the Teaching of Literature" (University of Murcia), and the teaching innovation projects "5746 Open Educational Resources (OER) for Expanding the Canon of Readings in Spanish" (University of Alicante) and "Visual Narratives and Literary Education in Early Childhood Education" (University of Alicante). Additionally, he is involved in the research projects "Literature and Social Change" (UMU-Euniwell) and "Strange Forms of the Book" (Complutense University of Madrid). He has participated in numerous international conferences, congresses, and seminars. In 2016, he was selected to participate in the European Union creative and research project European Digital Literatures, coordinated by Philippe Bootz, with members from Paris 8, Ljubljana, Fernando Pessoa, College Falmouth, and UCM. He has also contributed to the organization of international activities such as the congress and photography exhibition Giorgio Bassani: The Passion for the Image, held at the Complutense University of Madrid, the Sorbonne in Paris, and the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna (2016), the international congress Melancholy-18 (Melancholy in the Arts and Thought) at UCM (2018), and the First Conference on Teaching Innovation in Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Murcia (2022). In 2018, he edited and wrote the foreword for Enrique Vila-Matas' latest book of essays: "Impón tu Suerte" (Círculo de Tiza). He is the author of the novel "Too Late" (La Navaja Suiza Editores, 2022), winner of the XLVI Tigre Juan Prize for Narrative, and has participated in the multimodal project "Gabinete de la posibilidad" (Comisura, 2023), alongside writers Juan Gómez Bárcena, Alejandro Morellón, Layla Martínez, Julia Viejo, and Cecilia Pavón. Most recently, he has written the foreword for Enrique Vila-Matas' book "Ocho entrevistas inventadas" (H&O Editores, 2024). Forthcoming publications include the monographs "Niños salvajes. Los desvíos creativos del lenguaje y del pensamiento" (La Caja Books) and "Literature for Social Change: New Perspectives and Debates" (Peter Lang). He has served as the academic director of the Master's Degree in Creative Writing at UNIR. Currently, he is a Profesor Ayudante Doctor in the Department of Teaching in Language and Literature at the University of Murcia, where he coordinates the Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood and Primary Education. Since 2016, he has edited the literary website lectorsalteado.com.