**Meet the editor**

Prof. Asunción López-Varela Azcárate's research interests involve cognitive and intermedial semiotics and InterArt and cultural studies. Since 2007, she has been coordinating the research programme Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation (SIIM) at Complutense University of Madrid. She has been visiting scholar in universities in Europe, North America and Asia. A proactive member

of the profession, she is honorary member of the Poetry Award Committee of Beijing Literature and ArtNetwork, the Executive Committee of Alumni RCC-Harvard and the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies. In order to strengthen relations between Europe and Asia, López-Varela coordinates with the One Asia Foundation Seminar Series on cross-cultural dialogue. She is external evaluator for the European Union research programmes (Horizon 2020) and postgraduate programmes at Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and the Institute for Intermedial Studies at Linnaeus University and has collaborated with the Department of Romance Studies at Harvard University.
