Gala Arias Rubio

She has worked as a technical and literary translator from Russian, Polish and English, and has managed a collection of Slavonic literature classics at the Akal publishing house since 2005. She has been a member of GIECO (Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica y Humanidades Ambientales) since 2019 and a professional member of ASETRAD (Asociación Española de Traductores, Correctores e Intérpretes) since 2022.

She has served as executive editor of the journal Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment between 2021 and 2025. She has participated in the research projects ‘Angels of the Ecosystem?’ A Diachronic Exploration of Animal Representations in the Literary Imagination of English-Language Women Writers (20th Century) (GV/2020/029), and 'Women Who Write Animals'. Animal Otherness and its Creators in Anglophone Literature: An Ecofeminist Approach (CIGE/2021/153), both of which were funded by the Comunitat Valenciana. She was also involved in the AGLAYA research project, 'Strategies for Innovation in Cultural Mitocriticism' (ref. H2019/HUM-5714), which is funded by the Comunidad de Madrid, and currently is a member of Speak4Nature, a project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff exchange action of the European Commission for the years 2023-2027.

Her current research interests include speculative fiction, ecocriticism, ecotranslation, and the relationship between art and ecology.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1739-2835

CONFERENCES (among others):

• ‘Una loba como yo’. Reflexiones sobre la representación de los lobos en el relato de Ursula K Le Guin “The Wife’s Story”, at the anual Seminar organised by the Ecocriticism Research Group (GIECO, UAH-Instituto Franklin), "Sumergiéndonos en las Humanidades Ambientales: la importancia de la biodiversidad", held in Monfragüe National Park from 10 to 13 October, 2024.

• ‘The wolf woman and the mother wolf’ in the panel “Revisiting Motherhood: Matrifocal Narratives with an Environmental and More-than-Human Focus” at the Fourteenth Biennial MESEA Conference Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality, held at Ionian University Zakynthos Island Campus, Greece, from 11 to 13 June, 2026.

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES (among others):

• Arias Rubio, Gala. "Chapter 8 An Ecofeminist Reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Catwings Series". Women Who Write Animals. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004754584-010 Web.