Daniel Fernández Rodríguez is a professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia, where he teaches Spanish literature from the Golden Age.

After graduating in Hispanic Philology and Catalan Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he obtained his PhD in Spanish Philology from the same university in 2016, receiving the Extraordinary Prize in all three degrees. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Alberto Blecua and Ramón Valdés, was supported by an FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, as well as grants for research stays in Oxford and Florence. During his postdoctoral training, he enjoyed a research contract at the University of Neuchâtel and two Juan de la Cierva state grants.

Throughout his academic career, his main line of research has been the theater of Lope de Vega and Spanish literature of the 16th and 17th 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 16th century, has led him to discover new sources and trace intertextual links between different works.

2- Meter, orthoepy, and authorship. The analysis of the meter and style of certain works has allowed him to correct erroneous attributions to Lope de Vega (La palabra vengada, La Otomana), as well as to compile the corpus of playwrights who are barely remembered today (Cepeda) but were very relevant in the Golden Age.

3- Critical edition. To date, he has produced a total of six critical editions, an essential task for carrying out 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), as well as one by Loyola, Miseno, a play that is practically unknown today but was very important at the time (to the point that Lope rewrote it).

His publications include a monograph on Lope's Byzantine comedies, the aforementioned critical editions, and more than thirty scientific articles published in some of the most renowned international Hispanic studies journals (Bulletin Hispanique, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Criticón, Boletín de la Real Academia Española, etc.), as well as fifteen book chapters. He has also 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 comedias de Lope de Vega, together with Guillermo Gómez Sánchez-Ferrer (Gredos, 2021).

He also participates in various publicly funded international research projects, including CATCOM/DICAT, based at the University of Valencia and directed by Teresa Ferrer and Josefa Badía; the PROLOPE group, now under the direction of Gonzalo Pontón and Sònia Boadas; and, more recently, “Classical Theater in Valencia: Heritage and Digital Society” (TECLAVAL), directed by Teresa Ferrer. The result of this research work is more than forty invited lectures and papers that he has presented at various European universities.

In terms of his teaching work, Daniel Fernández lectures on the Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and Literature and on the Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies: Applications and Research. He is currently co-directing Laura Ferrer Blé's doctoral thesis (together with Professor Teresa Ferrer) and is co-director, with Clara Monzó, of an educational innovation project (PIEE) entitled Imitatio. Imitación y adaptación creativa de los clásicos de la Edad Media y los Siglos de Oro. He has also been a tutor for a number of collaboration grants for undergraduate and master's students. Finally, he is the author of several educational editions of Golden Age classics (Lazarillo, Don Quixote, an anthology of poetry, etc.), as well as selections and adaptations of canonical works of Spanish literature.

As for his poetic work, Daniel Fernández has published the poetry collections Las cosas en su sitio (La Isla de Siltolá, 2018, Antonio Colinas Prize) and Las nubes se levantan (Pre-Textos, 2022, Emilio Prados Prize). He recently won the Ciudad de Burgos Prize for La vida por delante, a book that will be published shortly by Visor.

Professor of the Department of Spanish Philology, Universitat de València. Her research focuses on Latin American literature, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

Clara Monzó Ribes (1990) holds a PhD in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2019) and a degree in Hispanic Philology (2008-2013) from the University of Valencia. Her main lines of research focus on the literature of the Golden Age, mainly from three perspectives: the theatre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the dramaturgy of Calderón de la Barca (staging and acotations) and the generic transversality between the golden classics (Cervantes, El Lazarillo) and modernity. She advocates a multidisciplinary approach that combines theoretical-critical analysis with the editing and exploration of stage language. Her doctoral thesis on stages directions on calderonian theater, directed by Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros and carried out thanks to an FPU grant from the Ministry of Education, obtained the qualification of ‘Sobresaliente Cum Laude’ and international mention and was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize (2023). She also holds the Extraordinary Master's Prize in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2013-2014). She has taught at the Universitat de València and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Previously, she held a postdoctoral research contract at the University of Vienna, where she carried out her scientific activity as part of the international project ‘Sound and Meaning in Spanish Golden Age Literature’ (FWF Austrian Science Fund P32563-G), funded by the Austrian government.

Her publications include several critical editions of Lope de Vega for the Partes de comedias, coordinated by Prolope group and published by Gredos, as well as an annotated didactic edition of Calderón's El alcalde de Zalamea. To date, he has numerous publications, including book chapters and articles, which have appeared in indexed journals and publishers included in the SPI index. In addition, she occasionally writes articles on classics as a contributor to the journal Contexto (ctxt).

In terms of internationalisation, she has undertaken research stays, supported by two FPU grants for pre-doctoral mobility: the University of Virginia (2016) and the Università Ca'Foscari in Venice (2017). In recent years, she has participated in several international conferences, seminars and research meetings and has been a speaker on other occasions.

She is part of the CATCOM research team, led by Teresa Ferrer Valls, and of the teaching innovation project ‘Mujeres y escritoras no canónicas de la literatura española e hispanoamericana: Fuentes bibliográficas para su didáctica e investigación en formato digital’ (Women and non-canonical writers in Spanish and Latin American literature: Bibliographic sources for teaching and research in digital format), led by Isabel Díez Ménguez (UCM). In the past, she has taken part in different research projects, including the macro-project ‘TC/12’ (the only one in philology in the Consolider programme of the National R+D+i Plan), the transversal project ‘Observatorio de Espacios Escénicos’ of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (which is part of the R+D+i Projects ‘Retos investigación’ of the Ministry of Science and Innovation) and the project based at the University of Vienna, mentioned above.

She is the author of the book of poems Llevar la casa (Isla Elefante, 2024).