Myriam DIOCARETZ

Myriam is the EWC Secretary-General since 2006, when the federation was established in Brussels, specialised in authors' rights and copyright systems.. Along this role, from 2007-2013 she held Extraordinary Professorship “Socrates Chair in Humanism and the Digital Society”, held at Maastricht University, and at the Tilburg Centre for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), Tilburg University, the Netherlands (2009-2013). As an expert on the digital, her research combines philosophy and humanistics with Artificial Intelligence and Future and Emerging Technology, as stated in “The Human ( , ) The Digital: Being in the 21st Century”, ISBN: 978-90-78886-99-0; in this field she guest-edited "Rhythms and Robot Relations" with J. van den Herik, a special issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer 2009). Selections of her poems (published in Spain and New York/USA) have been translated into English, Croatian, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek, and Romanian. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of 22 studies, published in The Netherlands (Amsterdam/New York), Spain, France, Italy, and the United States; as a theoretician, she has also published over fifty chapters and essays in English, French or Spanish on poetics, translation studies, gender, and dialogical criticism. In 2001-2006 she conducted research and published reports on ICT innovation, e-publishing, e-content, mobile Internet services, rich media authoring tools, uses of the Internet in Higher Education, and broadband innovation. As an academic editor she established five book series in French, English and Spanish respectively, including Critical Studies which she directs since 1989 (Brill/Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York).
Since 2004 she has been selected as Independent Expert by the European Commission in three DGs.
Studies: PhD. in Comparative Studies, State University of New York; M.A. Stanford University. Previous positions: Senior Researcher, European Centre for Digital Communication/ Infonomics, 2001-2006, Maastricht University; Worldwide Training Manager at WorldCom, Amsterdam; Training Coordinator at Stream International, Amsterdam. International publishing consultant. Researcher at the Univiersities of Amsterdam, and Utrecht.
Several academic positions and guest lectures at universities in the USA and Europe. Two Fulbright Fellowships. More information: http://www.myriamdiocaretz.net/