The Journal’s Editorial board is composed of twelve members. Each of them is at least undertaking post-graduate studies on Literature at the moment. Their names are: Noemí Acedo, Izaro Arroita, Ibai Atutxa, Pablo Barrio, Alba del Pozo, Joan Ferrús, Marta Font, Ana García, Atenea González, Paula Meiss, Bernat Padró, Francisco Piñón and Mª Teresa Vera.

The Editorial board is composed of:

• - The four members of the Publishing association (the President being the actual Editor in Chief), who represent one third of the total number of members.
• - Eight other researchers, four of whom have been in the past associate members of the Publishing association.

With the final aim of reaching a qualitative level, the number of publications authored by members of the Editorial board will never exceed a 20% of the total number of papers published per issue.

List of members.

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NOEMÍ ACEDO ALONSO. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Hispanic Philology (June 2005), for which she was awarded the Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura, and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (June 2006) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. During the academic year 2006/2007 she did the official MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies (at the UAB), and was awarded a scholarship for teacher training in higher education (Formación de Profesorado Universitario, FPU) by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. She is currently part of the research group Body and Textuality, which is led by Dr. Meri Torras, who is also her thesis supervisor. Her thesis is provisionally entitled Escritura corpórea: un estudio de la representación literaria del cuerpo herido en la narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela, Alicia Kozameh y Nora Strejilevich (‘Corporeal Writing: a Study of the Literary Representation of the Wounded Body in Luisa Valenzuela, Alicia Kozameh, and Nora Strejilevich’s Narrative’). It is intended to be an analysis of the representation of (physical) pain in several contemporary novels. She is part of the editorial board of 452ºF since August 2009.

IZARO ARROITA AZKARATE.  Izaro Arroita finished her degree in Journalism at the University of the Basque Country in 2007. She did a Masters Degree in "Comparative Literature: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies" at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2008. As a journalist, she has served as an editor of the newspaper Berria and a news editor at Euskadi Irratia (Basque public radio). Nowadays, she is a PhD student in Literature and Literary Science at the University of the Basque Country, and the recipient of a research scholarship from the Basque Government. She is analyzing the historical memory and national identity in Basque literature. She has been a member of the editorial board of the journal 452ºF since the beginning of the project and is working in the communication department. She has coordinated the fourth monograph, dedicated to memory and collective identity in comparative literature, together with Ana Garcia.

IBAI ATUTXA ORDEÑANA. Ibai Atutxa holds a degree in Basque philology (University of Deusto) and has completed two MAs in Comparative literature and Contemporary philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is currently a PhD student in Communication at the Universitat de València, where he also is part of the research group LiteraturaComparada.com He was editor in chief of 452ºF during 2010, and continues to work as part of the editorial board and coordinator of Basque translation and proofreading. Together with Paula Meiss, he coordinated the monographic section of the second issue, on the relations between literature and national identities. He also collaborates with the website Lapiko kritikoa (www.basque.criticalstew.org). His research lines run along the criticism of Basque literature through cultural studies, and he works on issues on literature and identity. His most relevant publication up to date is his recently published book Tatxatuaren aspiro nazioaz.

PABLO BARRIO ALLER. Pablo Barrio Aller studied Journalism (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, UPSA, 2007) and Literary theory and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Salamanca, USAL, 2007. Later, he completed his studies with the MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008), where he concentrated on myth criticism and analysis. He is a founding member and president of 452°F Cultural Association and, within the Journal 452°F, he was Editor in chief during its first two issues and, nowadays, is responsible for the web department. Besides, he is the founder and director of the editorial project Ganso y Pulpo.

ALBA DEL POZO GARCÍA. Alba del Pozo finished her degree in Hispanic philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2008. She continued her studies at the UAB with an MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies (2009). She is currently a PhD student in Literary theory and Comparative literature at the same university, and she holds a FI pre-doctoral grant within the research group Body and Textuality. Her thesis explores the processes of construction of the feminine body in Spanish literature of the late 19th century, through the perspective of cultural studies and comparative literature. Since August 2009 she is a member of the editorial board of 452ºF.

JOAN FERRÚS VICENTE. Joan Ferrús Vicente finished his degree in Humanities (2008) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He continued his studies with an MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies (2009) and an MA in Contemporary Thinking (2009), both at the UAB. He has studied issues related to postestructuralism and science-fiction. He is a founding member, secretary and treasurer of 452°F Cultural Association. He coordinated the monographic section of the first issue of Journal 452ºF, on the writer Edgar Allan Poe.

MARTA FONT ESPRIU. Marta Font Espriu is a pre-doctoral grant holder of the FI (AGAUR, Government of Catalonia) in the Woman and Literature Research Centre from the University of Barcelona. She has a degree in Catalan Philology (2006), and later she got the DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) of the Romance Philology PhD (2008). She is currently doing a doctoral thesis on contemporary catalan poetry related to the representation of desire, love otherness / subject's crisis. She has published articles on the poetry of Enric Casasses and Maria-Mercè Marçal, also in some magazines specialised in Literature, for instance: Lectora: revista de mujeres y textualidad and Caràcters. She is compiler of the new poetic voices of women, as it is evidenced by her coordination and moderation tasks in the Young Poets Table which is organized each autumn by the Woman and Literature Research Centre. She joined as a member of the Editorial Board and as a Layout designer in the third number of the 452ºF Magazine, and as a Layout Design Coordinator in the fourth one.

ANA GARCÍA DÍAZ. Ana García Díaz holds a degree in English philology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She completed her education with an MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is a Lecturer at the University of Jordan since 2009. She is a member of the editorial board of 452ºF Journal, and she has coordinated the fourth issue of it.

ATENEA ISABEL GONZÁLEZ AGUILAR. Atenea González finished her degree in Latin American language and literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (2006). She continued her studies at the UAB with an MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies (2009). She is currently a PhD student in Literary theory and Comparative literature at the same university. Her research is centred in cinema studies, intertextuality, and cultural studies and comparative literature. Since August 2009 she is a member of the editorial board of 452ºF. She has coordinated the third monographic of the Journal together with Alba del Pozo.

PAULA MEISS. Paula Meiss studied English philology and Literary theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and continued her studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she completed the MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies in 2008. She is a founding member of 452ºF Cultural Association, and within the Journal 452ºF she coordinates the translation team. She edited the second monographic of the Journal together with Ibai Atutxa, which explored the relations between national identities and literature.
Her current interests include the study of the figure of the foreigner in literature, and its relationships with comparative literature as a supranational discipline; postcolonial studies, and the Anglophone and Hispanic literatures produced in contexts of immigration. During 2011 she is the Editor in chief of the Journal.

BERNAT PADRÓ NIETO. Bernat Padró Nieto is a professor of Literary theory and Comparative literature at the Universitat de Barcelona. He holds two degrees in Hispanic philology and Literary theory and Comparative literature (First national award in academic excelence) at the same university. He completed his studies with the MA in Comparative studies in literature, arts and thought offered by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His minor dissertation analyses the concept of play in Schiller and Gadamer. He was part of the editorial board of Forma. Revista d'Estudis Comparatius. Art, Literatura, Pensament (2008-2010) and of the journal Paralelo Sur since 2006.

FRANCISCO PIÑÓN PERALES. Francisco Piñón Perales obtained a degree in Tourism (UNED) and a BA in Asian Studies (China) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He also completed the MA in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies at the UAB, with a minor dissertation on the grotesque in Japanese animation cinema. Nowadays, he lives in Beijing, where he works as a Spanish language teacher for the Instituto Cervantes.

MARÍA TERESA VERA ROJAS. She received her degree in Literature from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas, Venezuela); she obtained a MA in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Simón Bolívar, (Caracas-Venezuela) and a MA in Gender Studies from the Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). At present, she is a PhD candidate in the Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities Doctoral Program of the Universitat de Barcelona, where she also works as a research assistant at the Centre Dona i Literatura. Her research lines focus on Gender Studies; US Third World Women Feminism; US Latino Literature; Puerto Rican Literature; Modernity and Feminism of the early 20th century; Cultural Studies and Queer Studies. Her research has been published in different journals and collective works such as Centro Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies; Lectora: Revista de dones i textualitat; Manifiestos gays, lesbianos y queer. Testimonios de una lucha (1969-1994); The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature; Into the Mainstream: Essays on Caribbean and Latin American Literature and Culture, among others.