Fitxa persona

Alejandro Llinares Planells holds a PhD in History, with International Distinction and an Extraordinary Doctorate Award, from the Universidad de Málaga, specialising in Early Modern History. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Dr Antonio Calvo Maturana and defended in 2023, was completed under a competitive FPI predoctoral research fellowship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad de Málaga (2023–2024) and was awarded a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, which he declined upon taking up a position as Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (2024–2026). He is currently Assistant Professor of Early Modern History in the Department of Early Modern and Contemporary History at the Universitat de València. His academic background includes a BA in History and an Interuniversity MA in History and Identities in the Western Mediterranean (15th–19th Centuries), both completed at the Universitat de València. He also has professional experience in archival work.

He has participated in several research projects funded at both national and regional levels and is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters published in highly regarded specialist journals and academic presses. These include Pasado y Memoria, Acta Histriae, Annales. Series Historia et Sociologia, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Memoria y Civilización, Manuscrits. Revista d’Història Moderna, Boletín de Literatura Oral, Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos, and Scripta. Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna.

He has also co-edited two collective volumes: Biografías olvidadas y marginalidad en la Edad Media y Moderna en la Corona de Aragón, with Vicent Josep Escartí (Sílex, 2024), and Rethinking Violence in Valencia and Catalonia: Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century, with Guillermo López Juan (Peter Lang, 2024).

He has participated in numerous national and international conferences and academic meetings and has undertaken research stays at several European institutions, including the University of Cambridge, the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

His research focuses on the sociocultural history of the Early Modern period, with particular emphasis on popular culture, the history of written culture, and popular print. He approaches popular printed literature both as an everyday feature of the public sphere and through its relationship with dominant cultural models in early modern society. A significant strand of his research examines banditry, violence, and criminality from cultural and microhistorical perspectives, as well as printed literature associated with public executions and practices of spiritual assistance to those condemned to death between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He also works with diaries, memoirs, and other forms of personal writing to explore the role of individuals in the appropriation, reinterpretation, and circulation of cultural models, as well as their participation in collective processes in the Early Modern period.