Beatriz Penas Ibáñez

MA (linguistics) S.U.N.Y.A.B (State University of New York at Buffalo)., U.S.A.

M.A Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

PhD Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).

Her research lies within the field of Semiotics –the semiotics of human communication– and is more specifically focused on textual hermeneutics, the sociopragmatics of narrative reading and writing, and the interrelation between language, identity and culture. Her main publications include books,  Análisis semiótico de los aspectos taurinos de la obra literaria de Ernest Hemingway (Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 1990), contributions to From Baudelaire to Lorca: Approaches to Literary Modernism (Kassel: Reichenberger, 1996), Gender, I-deology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), New Exoticisms (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2000), Memory, Desire and Imagination in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film (Winter 2004) , A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (Camden House, 2004), Theorizing Narrativity (Walter de Gruyter, 2008), and editions: The Intertextual Dimension of Discourse (Universidad de Zaragoza, 1996), The Pragmatics of Understanding and Misunderstanding (Universidad de Zaragoza, 1998), Interculturalism: Between Identity and Diversity (Peter Lang, 2006), Paradojas de la interculturalidad: filosofía, lenguaje y discurso (Biblioteca Nueva, 2008).
 Current research project: Linguistics and Persuasive communication (HUM2007-30064-E).