Speakers
Xabier Etxaniz Erle
Senior Lecturer of the Department of Didactics of Language and Literature of the UPV/EHU. In 1996 he defended his doctoral thesis on the history of Basque Children's and Youth Literature. He has collaborated in numerous journals and the media and has published articles in both Basque and international reviews, specifically in Ocnos, Children’s Literature and Education, Insula, Bookbird or Tantak, among others.
He has participated in congresses and published books on Children's and Young People's Literature, such as, for example, Euskal haur eta gazte literatureren historia (UPV/EHU, 1997), Geure ipuinak (Pamiela, 2000), 90eko hamarkadako Haur eta Gazte Literatura (Pamiela, 2005 ) or the prologue of the book Egungo euskal haur eta gazte literature in history (UPV / EHU, 2011).
He has supervised eight doctoral theses and is currently a member of the LIJMI network and the LAIDA research group.
Eloy Martos Nuñez
Professor in the area of Didactics of Language and Literature, at the University of Extremadura. General Coordinator of the International Network of Reading Universities (www.universidadeslectoras.org), a thematic network that brings together more than 45 Universities from 12 countries.
Doctor in Hispanic Philology, he is the author of numerous publications (articles, monographs and manuals) on reading and new technologies, didactics of language and literature, mythology and folklore. He has given invited lectures, lectures and teaching courses on language and literature and children's literature in England, Italy, Sweden, France, Russia, Mexico and Brazil, and has participated in national and international projects, such as the L´Aqua Project.
He coordinates the line of research on Intangibles and Water Culture, which includes intangible heritage, legends, Children's and Young Adults Literature, etc.
Ana Margarida Ramos
Ana Margarida Ramos is a Ph.D. in Literature and Professor of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Aveiro, where she teaches disciplines in the area of Portuguese Literature and Children's Literature.
She is a member of the Center for Research in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (CLLC), of the University of Aveiro. She has been a visiting professor at the Oslo Metropolitan University, in Norway, and a Research Fellow at the International Library in Munich. She has presented communications and conferences at national and international congresses in the area of Children's Literature, an area in which she has published several books, book chapters and articles in magazines in different languages.
She was also a member of the team that conceived the CASA DA LEITURA project of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.