Raquel Bouso Garcia

BA in Information Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and BA in Humanities (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), PhD in Humanities (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). She has conducted research stays at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya), Kyoto University, Humboldt Universität (Berlin) Università Ca’Foscari (Venezia), Cambridge University, and the Université Catholique de Louvain. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Vice-rector for Culture and Communication at the UPF.

Besides various articles, she has published El zen (Catalan, 2008; Spanish, 2012), coedited FJP vol. 6, Cross-Currents and Confluences, with J.W. Heisig (2009), La filosofía japonesa en sus textos, with J. W. Heisig, T. P. Kasulis, and J. C. Maraldo (2016), and Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen, with A. Loughnane and R. Müller (2022). Her research interests include intercultural philosophy, aesthetics and religion, East Asian religions and thought, particularly Japanese Zen Buddhism, and the Kyoto School.

She is a board member of the European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies (ENBCS), a cofounding member and president of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy (ENOJP), and a partner researcher of “Les Orients désorientés” (IHRIM-Université Clermont Auvergne) and of MUSHIN’EN 無心円 – Intercultural Philosophy Research Group.