Fitxa persona

[Biography, english version]

Teresa Ferrer Valls is a Spanish literature professor at the Department of Spanish Philology of the Universitat de València, where she has been teaching since 1986. Her research activity has been awarded six six-year periods by the CNEAI and her projects have been funded uninterruptedly to this day and have facilitated the training and incorporation into the professional career of several generations of fellows. His evaluation of teaching within the Docentia program has earned the qualification of Excellent.

Professor Ferrer’s research focuses on the Spanish theatre of the Golden Age. One of his lines of work is related to the study of courtesan scenic practice and gave rise to a book and a series of articles, highly cited, that appear among the reference publications in theatre stories and specialized bibliographies. The book La práctica escénica cortesana: de la época del emperador a la de Felipe III (1991) contributed to the rethinking of courtesan theatrical activity prior to the reign of Philip IV, a period previously neglected by critics. Another of his lines of research is linked to the theatrical patronage of the nobility and had its origin in the discovery of the complete documentation, unpublished at the time, related to the assignment to Lope de Vega of a dramatic work, documentation published in Nobleza y espectáculo teatral 1535-1622: estudio y documentos (1993). In this line of work, he has published articles and book chapters related to the genre of genealogical dramas and the patronage of the nobility and the relationship between history and theatre. Another of her lines of work has focused on theatre written by women in the 17th century. His contributions began when Spain had not yet aroused interest in gender studies and contributed to giving a global vision of the work of a small, but significant, group of playwrights and are today part of the specialized repertoires. He has carried out studies on different authors (Cristóbal de Virués, Lope de Vega, Calderón, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Rodrigo de Herrera...), editing some of the most representative works of the period. He also works in the field of Digital Humanities and since 1995 he has directed the theatrical research group DICAT, which has been a pioneer in the development of databases applied to the study of classical Spanish theatre as DICAT. Diccionario de actores del teatro clásico español (2008), a large database published in 2008 after fifteen years of work and published in 2023 in open, or CATCOM. Base de datos de comedias mencionadas en la documentación teatral (1540-1700). His research group was one of the twelve that integrated the Consolider TC/12 project. Classical Spanish theatrical heritage. Texts and research instruments, coordinated by Joan Oleza. He participated, with a group of researchers and ant engineers, led by Joan Oleza, in the virtual reconstruction of the old Corral de La Olivera in Valencia. In 2019, it promoted the ASODAT. Bases de datos integradas del teatro clásico español, a database federation that brings together groups from various universities to date. It has also obtained funding for educational innovation projects that have served to disseminate research within and outside the classroom by digital means. The result of this line was the electronic edition of the comedy La traición en la amistad by María de Zayas, the archive La práctica escénica en imágenes or the teaching tool El teatro clásico español: materiales docentes multimedia.

She is regularly required as an expert in the evaluation of research by different agencies nationally and internationally, and has been part of the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity. He is a member of several scientific committees of journals and publishers of excellence. He has been a member of juries that have awarded prizes to literary creation and research. She was director of the Official Master's Degree in «Máster Oficial Estudios hispánicos: Aplicaciones e Investigación» (2007-2010), linked to the doctoral program, which obtained quality mention. She has been director of the Department of Spanish Philology (2010-2013 and 2016-2019) and since 2020 she is director of Publications of the Universitat de València. He has been a member of the Faculty Board (2012-2019) and of the Senate of the Universitat de València (2014-2017).