Eva Darias-Beautell (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of Canada at the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain). She was a Government of Canada pre-doctoral award holder at the University of Toronto (1992–93) and has since received numerous research grants from the governments of Canada and Spain. She has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa, British Columbia, California, Berkeley, London, and Masaryk.

Her research focuses on contemporary Canadian literature and culture, with particular interests in affect theory, urban studies, critical race studies, gender, canon formation, and spatial approaches to literature. She has published extensively in these fields. Her books include Shifting Sands: Literary Theory and Contemporary Canadian Fiction (Mellen, 2000) and Graphies and Grafts: (Con)Texts and (Inter)Texts in the Fictions of Four Canadian Women Writers (Peter Lang, 2001). She has also co-edited Canon Disorders: Gendered Perspectives on Literature and Film in Canada and the United States (University of La Rioja, 2007), and edited Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012) and The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis (Vernon Press, 2019). She is currently working on a monograph that examines the representations of (un)happiness in contemporary Vancouver writing.

Professor Darias-Beautell has directed seven internationally funded research projects on the literatures and cultures of Canada and the United States. Most recently, she led The Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives (PID2020-113190GB-C21), and the international research network TransCanadian Networks: Excellence and Transversality from Spain about Canada towards Europe. She is also General Co-Editor, together with Ana María Fraile-Marcos, of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies. In 2026, she received the International Council for Canadian Studies Certificate of Merit in recognition of her contribution to Canadian Studies.

Professor Darias-Beautell’s current visit to the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures is funded through the International Dimension of the Erasmus+ KA131 programme.