curriculum vitae
Academic Education
- Doctor of Media Studies 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 (5-yrs, MA equivalent) in Media Studies by the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
- Licenciatura (5 yrs, MA equivalent) in Hispanic Philology by the UNED
University, Spain.
Academic Positions held
- Head of DDK (Digital Design and Communication), earlier DKM (Design, Communication
and Media) Study Program (from jan 2006, current)
- Associate Professor at the IT University
of Copenhagen, where she is a member of the INC Department and the Center
for Computer Game Research research
group. (from nov 2004, current position).
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication
at the ITU (nov 2001- oct 2004)
- 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 (2003-2005)
- 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) nş 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.