Universitat de València  Departament Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Jesús Tronch Pérez


 So distribution should undo excess
And each man have enough.

The Earl of Gloucester in King Lear (4.1.73-4), by William Shakespeare 

 Woe to the cause of these constrained wars
Hieronimo in The Spanish Tragedy (3.7.61), attributed to Thomas Kyd


Jesús Tronch is Professor of English at the University of Valencia, where he teaches English literature and creative translation.
    His research focuses on
the transmission and editing of early modern English drama (sometimes in comparison with Spanish play-texts), the reception and translation of Shakespeare in Spain, and  on the use of digital technologies in this research. He has published A Synoptic 'Hamlet' (2002), and Un primer 'Hamlet'  (1994), co-edited bilingual English-Spanish editions of The Tempest (1994) and Antony and Cleopatra (2001), and, with Clara Calvo, a critical edition of The Spanish Tragedy for the Arden Early Modern Drama series (2013). He has also written essays for book collections published by MLA, Palgrave, University of Delaware Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Peter Lang, Iter Press, Firenze UP, and articles and reviews on journals such as Shakespeare Survey, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Critical Survey, SEDERI, TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, Hipogrifo; Atlantis, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Jahrbuch.
      At present, he is editing Timon of Athens for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, through the LEMDO platform, editing Richard Duke of York and Henry VI Part Three for The Oxford Marlowe Collected Works; and co-directing with Joan Oleza the EMOTHE Project, an open-access, database and digital library of early modern European theatre. He is Principal Investigator of the related research projects funded by the Spanish government
PID2022-136431NB-C65, PID2019-104045GB-C54 (both as part of the coordinated ASODAT project) and FFI2016-80314-P. In 2009 he joined the ARTELOPE research group at the University of Valencia, which initiated the multilingual EMOTHE Digital Library.  Since 2015, he is director of the HIERONIMO Project on early modern English drama in translation (funded in 2016-2017 by Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian autonomous government). In 2010-2011, he was a researcher in the project "Shakespeare in Spain within the framework of his European reception" based at the University of Murcia.
      From April 2009 to May 2017, he was the Secretary-Treasurer of SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies. He was a member of the Conference Committee of the International Shakespeare Association (2007-2011), is presently a member of the Advisory Board of the International Shakespeare Conference, and referees for a number of journals such as Shakespeare, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Cahiers Élisabéthains, SEDERI, Amaltea, Diablotexto, Atlantis, and Language and Literature.
      From November 2010 to August 2021 he was the coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in English Studies of the Universitat de València.

ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3950-0005


Contacte: tronch@uv.es