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Quick facts for kids José Manuel Losada
Born	(1962-05-31) 31 May 1962 (age 63) Zamora, Spain
Occupation	University professor, Literary theorist
Citizenship	Spanish
Education	University of Valladolid University of the Sorbonne

José Manuel Losada (Zamora, 1962) is a university professor and literary theorist with a specialization in the fields of myth criticism and comparative literature. Within these fields he has published several books in Spanish, French and English.

Academic career

José Manuel Losada holds a PhD from the University of the Sorbonne (1990) and a habilitation as Research Director (HDR) from the University of Nancy II (1999). He has been Assistant Professor at the University of Navarre, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, Senior Fellow at St John's College (Oxford), Senior Fellow at the University of Durham (University College), and Visiting Professor at Sofia University (St. Kliment Ohridski). He has given research seminars at the universities of Jerusalem, Montpellier, Münster, Munich (LMU), Valencia, Guadalajara (Mexico), Sofia, Tunis, Iceland and Athens. Since 2000, he has been a Professor at Complutense University of Madrid, where he teaches courses on French literature, comparative literature, and literature and religion.

J.M. Losada is the founder and editor of Amaltea, Journal of Myth Criticism  (2008 –), a prestigious academic journal with a focus on analyzing the reception of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary arts and literature. He is also founder and president of Asteria, International Association for Myth Criticism, a not-for-profit cultural association with an aim to promote research on myth in contemporary arts and literature. Furthermore, he is the founder and director of Acis, a myth criticism research group which brings together numerous academics and doctoral researchers with an interest in analyzing the contemporary relevance of myth from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is also the principal investigator in several R&D projects related to myth criticism. With the support of the members of these groups, Losada has coordinated many international conferences, outreach activities ("Mythological Walks" programmed in the Madrid Science Week), and international art competitions on the subject of myth.

His academic production includes some twenty books and over two hundred articles published in academic books and journals.

Main works

Books

• 1993: Tirso, Molière, Pouchkine, Lenau. Analyses et synthèses sur un mythe littéraire. Edited with Pierre Brunel, Paris, Klincksieck. ISBN: 2252029390.
• 1997: Bibliography of the Myth of Don Juan in Literary History, José Manuel Losada ed. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN: 0773484507.
• 1999: Bibliographie critique de la littérature espagnole en France au XVIIe siècle. Présence et influence, Geneva (Switzerland): Droz. ISBN: 2600003134.
• 2010: Métamorphoses du roman français. Avatars d'un genre dévorateur, José Manuel Losada ed. Lovaina (Belgium): Peeters. ISBN: 9789042922013.
• 2010: Mito y mundo contemporáneo. La recepción de los mitos antiguos, medievales y modernos en la literatura contemporánea. Bari (Italy): Levante Editori. ISBN: 9788879495479.
• 2012: Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Edited with Marta Guirao. ISBN: 1443837466.
• 2013: Mito e interdisciplinariedad. Los mitos antiguos, medievales y modernos en la literatura y las artes contemporáneas. Bari (Italy): Levante Editori. Edited with Antonella Lipscomb. ISBN: 9788879496230.
• 2014: Abordajes. Mitos y reflexiones sobre el mar. José Manuel Losada ed., Madrid: Instituto Español de Oceanografía. ISBN: 9788495877512.
• 2014: Victor Hugo et l’Espagne. L’imaginaire hispanique dans l’œuvre poétique. In collaboration with André Labertit, Paris, Honoré Champion. ISBN: 9782745326980.
• 2015: Myths in Crisis: The Crisis of Myth. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Edited with Antonella Lipscomb. ISBN: 9781443878142.
• 2015: Nuevas formas del mito, José Manuel Losada ed. Berlin: Logos Verlag. ISBN: 9783832540401.
• 2016: Mitos de hoy. Ensayos de mitocrítica cultural, José Manuel Losada ed., Berlin, Logos Verlag. ISBN: 9783832542399.
• 2017: Myth and Emotions, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Edited with Antonella Lipscomb. ISBN: 9781527500112.
• 2019: Myth and Audiovisual Creation, Berlín: Logos Verlag. Edited with Antonella Lipscomb. ISBN: 9783832549664.
• 2021: Mito y ciencia ficción, Madrid: Sial Pigmalión. Edited with Antonella Lipscomb. ISBN: 9788418888120.
• 2022: El Jardín de las Hespérides: del mito a la belleza, Madrid: Ediciones Complutense. Curator and Editor. ISBN: 9788409368556.
• 2022: Mitocrítica cultural. Una definición del mito, Madrid: Akal. ISBN: 9788446052678.
• 2024: Mito: teorías de un concepto controvertido, José Manuel Losada y Antonella Lipscomb (eds.), Madrid, Sial Pigmalión , 131 pp. ISBN: 9788419928030.
• 2024: Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature / Le récit mythique dans la littérature européenne comparée, CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, Asun López-Varela y José Manuel Losada (dir.), 7, París, Classiques Garnier, 236 p. ISSN 2780-2523. ISBN: 9782406169697.

Articles

• 1989. “Calderón de la Barca: El laurel de Apolo”. Revista de Literatura (Madrid), 51: 485–494. ISSN 0034-849X.
• 2004: "The Myth of the Fallen Angel. Its Theosophy in Scandinavian, English, and French Literature". Nonfictional Romantic Prose. Expanding Borders, Steven P. Sondrup & Virgil Nemoianu eds. Amsterdam / Philadelphia (PA): John Benjamins: 433–457. DOI: 10.1075/chlel.xviii.34los. ISBN: 9027234515.
• 2008: “Victor Hugo et le mythe de Don Juan”, Don Juans insolites, Pierre Brunel ed. París : Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne: 79–86. ISBN: 9782840505679.
• 2009: “La nature mythique du Graal dans Le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes”. Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale (Poitiers), 52,1 (2009): 3–20. ISSN 0007-9731.
• 2014: "Myth and Extraordinary Event". International Journal of Language and Literature. New York: pp. 31 – 55. Link
• 2015: “Myth and Origins: Men Want to Know”, Journal of Literature and Art Studies. New York, vol. 5, nº 10, pp. 930–945. ISSN 2159-5836 (print) ISSN 2159-5844 (online).
• 2016: “El mundo de la fantasía y el mundo del mito. Los cuentos de hadas”, Çédille, “Monografías”, 6: 69-100. ISSN 1699-4949. Link
• 2017: “El «mito» de Don Quijote (2ª parte): ¿con o sin comillas? En busca de criterios pertinentes del mito”, Cervantès, quatre siècles après: nouveaux objets, nouvelles approches, Emmanuel Marigno et al. eds., Binges (France): Éditions Orbis Tertius: 11–32. ISBN: 9782367830957.
• 2018: “Le personnage mythique”, Degrés. Revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologique (Brussels), 45: c1-c18. ISSN 0770-8378.
• 2019: “Preface: The Myth of the Eternal Return”, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 40.2: 7-10. ISSN 0252-8169. Link
• 2020: “Mito y antropogonía en la literatura hispanoamericana: Hombres de maíz, de Miguel Ángel Asturias”, Rassegna iberistica (Venezia), 43, 113, Giugno (2020), 41-56. e-ISSN: 2037-6588. ISSN 0392-4777. Link
• 2020: “Cultural Myth Criticism and Today’s Challenges to Myth”, Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, Nickolas B. Roubekas and Thomas Ryba (eds.), Leiden, Koninklijke Brill NV, pp. 355–370. ISBN: 9789004435025. Link
• 2021: “La trascendencia de la ciencia ficción”, Mito y ciencia ficción, José Manuel Losada & Antonella Lipscomb (eds.), Madrid, Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión, pp. 39-46. ISBN 9788418888120.
• 2024: “The Referential Function of Myth”, Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature, Paris, Classiques Garnier.

See also

In Spanish: José Manuel Losada para niños