La Crátera de Ártemis with Spanish poet María Paz Moreno
In this online session that will be held entirely in Spanish, María Paz Moreno -poet, essayist and literary critic, as well as Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Cincinnati (USA)- will be in conversation with Antonio Martínez Arboleda (University of Leeds), cultural activist and founder of La Cátedrá de Ártemis, a translation programme for poetry written in Spanish. During the dialogue, María Paz Moreno will read a selection of poems selected for the occasion. Poet, writer, translator and co-founder of Revista Crátera, José Antonio Olmedo López-Amor, will join the session to introduce this editorial project and María Paz Moreno.
María Paz Moreno is a poet, essayist and literary critic. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Spanish Philology from the Universidad de Alicante and a Ph.D. In Spanish Literature from The Ohio State University. She is Full Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on Spanish contemporary poetry and the connections between food and culture. She is the author of key works on the writer Juan Gil-Albert, among them El culturalismo en la poesía de Juan Gil-Albert and the edition of his Complete Poetry with Pre-Textos publishing company. She is the Editor of the Cincinnati Romance Review's monographic issue Writing about Food: Culinary Literature in the Hispanic World (2012). She is also the author of De la página al plato. El libro de cocina en España, and Madrid: A Culinary History, books considered by critics to be groundbreaking studies on the topic of Spanish Food Studies. She has published nine books of poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies. Her latest book is Amiga del monstruo, published by Ed. Renacimiento (Sevilla, Spain) in 2020.
José Antonio Olmedo López-Amor is a writer and translator. He has a Bachelors Degree in Audiovisual Communication. He has published, among other titles, the poetry books El testamento de la rosa (2014), La flor de la vida, elogio de la geometría sagrada (2016), and Maldito y bienamado bibelot (2017), as well as the book of haiku poetry La soledad encendida (2015), co-authored with Gregorio Muelas, and the book of aphorisms El monstruo en el camerino (2019), co-authored with David Acebes Sampedro. He has won mentions on the Valencian Ateneo Blasco Ibáñez award for his narrative work(2012, 2014) and poetry (2016, 2018); the Limaclara International Essay Award (2016); the II Isabel Agüera National Letters Contest, from Ciudad Villa del Río (2017), and the III Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia National Poetry Prize (2019).
Antonio Martínez Arboleda is Principal Teaching Fellow in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds. He is also the Academic Lead for Open Educational Practice of the University of Leeds and Co-Director of its Centre for Research in Digital Education. He has published articles on critical digital pedagogies and teaches on a variety of subjects including Spanish language and politics, law and education. He is also a poet and translator. As a cultural activist, he directs the international university translation project La Crátera de Ártemis and the Poetry group Transforming with Poetry. He is the delegate in Great Britain of Revista Crátera.
