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MARÍA ROSA ÁLVAREZ SELLERS. PhD in Philology and Degree in Hispanic Philology (Universitat de València) and Portuguese Philology (Universidad de Salamanca), she combines both specialities in her research activity.

Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology attached to the Department of Spanish Philology (Universitat de València), she teaches in all the degrees of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, although the Minor in Portuguese is included in the Degree of Modern Languages and their Literatures.

Acting Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication (University of Valence, Spain).

Coordinator of the Academic Committee of the Degree in Modern Languages and their Literatures.

She has been Vice-Dean of Culture, Equality, Inclusive Policies and Sustainability (27/3/2024 to 9/2/2025).

Coordinator of the Area of Portuguese and Basque Philology at the University of Valencia.

She is a member of the Board of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication and participates in numerous university committees and university entrance exams.

Lines of research: Comparative literature – Critical edition – Reception – Translation – Dictionaries – Theater – Actors – Spanish literature – Golden Age – Calderón de la Barca – Lope de Vega – Agustín Moreto – Portuguese literature – Brazilian literature – Gil Vicente – António Ferreira – Bernardim *Ribeiro – Guimarães Rosa – Iberian interludes

She has published works dedicated to the Spanish theater of the Golden Ages (La tragedia española en el Siglo de Oro: La vida es sueño o el delito del nacimiento [National Essay Award "Becerro de *Bengoa"], Diputació Foral de *Alava; Análisis y evolución de la tragedia española en el Siglo de Oro: la tragedia amorosa, Kassel, Reichenberger, 3 vols.) and in Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Edition of Literatura portuguesa y literatura española: influencias y relaciones, University of Valencia; Edition of Castro by António Ferreira, Universidade da Coruña-Xunta de Galícia; João Guimarães Rosa: travesías por la ficción y la palabra, Vigo, Academia del Hispanismo), in addition to this she has participated in numerous international Conferences and collaborated in various national and foreign publications and magazines. She has published books, critical editions and around one hundred articles and book chapters. In 2019 she published two critical editions: El bruto de Babilonia, by Matos Fragoso, Moreto and Cáncer (Ed. Reichenberger) and the Entremés de El día de compadres (Ed. University of Lisbon). In 2024 she published a critical edition of La tragedia del duque de Berganza, by Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (Ed. Reichenberger).

She has received scholarships to complete his academic training in Belgium, Italy, the United States and Portugal and has given classes and lectures at the universities of Coimbra, Lisbon, Bordeaux and Toulouse.

She is a member of the Centro de Estudos de Teatro (CET) of the Universidade de Lisboa and of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (CLP) of the Universidade de Coimbra, as well as of the international research groups ‘Proteo-Moretianos’, ‘Escrituras Literarias: Patrimonio y Actualidad’ and ‘Circe-Early Modern European Theatre on Screen’.

She has participated in international research projects (R&D), including two European projects: NIFLAR (Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research), directed by the Universiteit Utrecht (2008-2010), dedicated to teaching innovation in foreign languages and financed by the European Union (Lifelong Learning Programme Sub-programmes - Multilateral Projects, Networks, Accompanying measures) and Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español. Textos e Instrumentos de Investigación (Consolider) (TC/12) (Ministry of Science and Innovation. Plan Nacional I+D+I), in which 49 universities participated. The most recent projects have been Escritura teatral colaborativa en el Siglo de Oro: análisis, interpretación y nuevos instrumentos de investigación (Centenario de Agustín Moreto, 1618-2018), 2018-2010 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and FEDER Funds. Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia), Entremezes ibéricos: inventariação, edição e estudo (ENTRIB), 2018-2021 (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) and ERDF funds (Lisbon Regional Operational Programme) and El teatro áureo en colaboración: textos, autorías, ámbitos literarios de sociabilidad y nuevos instrumentos de investigación (TAC) (Ministry of Science and Innovation. State Programme for the Generation of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&D&I System and the State Programme for R&D&I Oriented towards the Challenges of Society). She is currently part of the EMOTHE project: European Theatre of the 16th and 17th centuries. Heritage and databases (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. European Union).

Expert evaluator of R&D projects: ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva) and AGAUR (Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación).

Expert evaluator of university degrees in Portugal: A3ES (Portuguese Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education).

She participates in evaluation committees of international journals: Hispanic Review, Rilce, Hipogrifo, Anuario Calderoniano, Quaderns de Filologia, MONTI, Límite, Studia Iberica et Americana, Hesperia, Anagnórisis, eHumanista, Abriu, Itinerarios, Dicenda, Celestinesca. Member of editorial committees: Estudios Portugueses y Brasileños; Nueva Revista del Pacífico; Quaderns de Filologia. Profile in International Database: “Who’s who”, IStReS Iberian Studies (Universidade de Lisboa).

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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).