Fitxa persona

María José Bertomeu Masià is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Philology at the Universitat de València. She holds a degree in Hispanic and Italian Philology and a PhD in Philology from the same University. Her research career has focused on the recovery and critical edition of medieval and Renaissance Italian texts and on the study of language and rhetorical and linguistic strategies, as well as coded texts, from her earliest publications to her most recent publications on the correspondence of Margaret of Parma, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza and Governor of the Netherlands. She has been part of several research projects focusing on the recovery of women's correspondence funded by the Ministry of Science Women of the House of Austria (1526-1567). Corpus of documents I and II or the AICO of the Generalitat Valenciana Rhetorical strategies and linguistic expression of women in the vindication of their rights in the time of Charles V, directed by Dr. Júlia Benavent, and is currently co-IP of the project The secret linguistic codes of the women of the House of Austria in the time of Charles V (ref. PID2021-126189NB-I00) of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (2022-2026). He has 3 periods of research. Since March 2024 she has been Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication.