PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
Department: Spanish
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After graduating in Hispanic Philology and Catalan Philology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in 2016 she received her PhD in Spanish Philology from the same center, with Extraordinary Prize in all three degrees. Her doctoral thesis on Lope de Vega's Byzantine comedies, directed by Professors Alberto Blecua and Ramón Valdés, was supported by an FPU grant from the Ministry of Education, as well as grants for research stays in Oxford and Florence. Throughout his postdoctoral training, he enjoyed a research contract at the Université de Neuchâtel and two Juan de la Cierva state grants, the first at the Universitat de València and the second at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia.
Throughout his academic career, his main line of research has been Lope de Vega’s theater and Spanish literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which he has approached from three complementary perspectives:
1- Imitation and rewriting. The study of the creative process of Lope de Vega and other authors, particularly in relation to the Italian novella and the little known theater of the late sixteenth century, has led him to make a series of critical discoveries such as hitherto ignored textual sources.
2- Metrics, orthology and authorship. The analysis of the metrics and style of certain works has allowed him to correct erroneous attributions (La palabra vengada, La Otomana) to Lope de Vega, as well as to conform the corpus of playwrights today hardly remembered (Cepeda), but very relevant in the Golden Age.
3- Critical edition. To date, he has carried out a total of six critical editions, an essential task to complete the study of any work: he has edited five comedies by Lope de Vega (El maestro de danzar, La gallarda toledana, El Grao de Valencia, Virtud, pobreza y mujer and, together with Clara Monzó Ribes, Los bandos de Sena) and one by Loyola, Miseno, practically unknown today, but very important at the time, to the point that Lope even rewrote it, as he has been able to demonstrate.
His publications include a monograph on Lope's Byzantine comedies, the aforementioned critical editions and some thirty scientific articles published in some of the most renowned journals of international Hispanism (Bulletin Hispanique, RILCE, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Criticón, Boletín de la Real Academia Española, etc.), as well as more than a dozen book chapters published by national and international publishers (Leo S. Olschki, Renacimiento, Fondo de Cultura Económica or Visor).
On the other hand, he has coordinated a monograph for the Anuario Lope de Vega (2021), entitled "Los primeros años del teatro comercial en España y el primer Lope (1560-1598)", as well as Parte XX de las Comedias de Lope de Vega (Gredos, 2021), together with Guillermo Gómez Sánchez-Ferrer. Finally, in addition to having written numerous academic reviews and edited several monographic volumes, he has been part of the editorial committee of the RAE's edition of Don Quixote (2015), directed by Francisco Rico.
As for his intervention in congresses, seminars and conferences, he has given more than forty invited papers, communications or lectures in different European universities, and has been a member of different scientific and organizing committees.
He has also participated in different international research projects, among which stand out those of the PROLOPE group, one of the oldest in the Humanities; the CATCOM/DICAT project (Integrated databases of classical Spanish theater), directed by Teresa Ferrer Valls from the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia; the TC/12 macroproject, the only one in philology that has managed to be part of the Consolider program of the National R+D+I Plan; or "Verse Rhythm in Golden Age Spanish Poetry: Lope de Vega and Luis de Góngora's Romances", funded by the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique.
Regarding his teaching work, in addition to teaching undergraduate and master's degree classes at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Université de Neuchâtel and the Universitat de València, he has published several didactic editions of classics of the Golden Age, as well as selections and adaptations of canonical works of Spanish literature; and finally, he has participated in language and literature books for high school.
As for his poetic work, he is the author of the poetry collections Las cosas en su sitio (La Isla de Siltolá, 2018, Premio Antonio Colinas) and Las nubes se levantan (Pre-Textos, 2022, Premio Emilio Prados). He has also published poems and translations in magazines such as "21veintiúnversos", "Estación poesía", "Tintas" or "Anáfora", of which he is a regular contributor.