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BADIA HERRERA, JOSEFA

BADIA HERRERA, JOSEFA

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial

Departament de Filologia Espanyola Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Avinguda Blasco Ibáñez, 32 46010 - Valencia Despatx n. 11

(9639) 83044

josefa.badia@uv.es

Biography
 

After graduating in Hispanic Philology at Universitat de València, I received my PhD in Spanish Philology at the same center in 2008. The excellence of the academic training received earned me the obtaining the Extraordinary Prize for Bachelor and the Extraordinary Prize for Doctorate. I received a Collaboration Scholarship and a FPU Research Scholarship in 2001-02 and 2002-2006, respectively. At the present, I am Associate Professor at the Universitat de València. The quality of my research has been recognized with three sexenios from the Spanish CNEAI agency (covering the period of 2006-2018). Moreover, the teaching experience carried out has enabled me to obtain “Excellent” in two periods evaluated according to the DOCENTIA program appraisal.

The main line of my research studies has been the Spanish classical theater, which I have approached from four complementary perspectives:

1. Studying handwritten transmission of classical theatrical texts, the theatrical genres and the metric in the Spanish Golden Age dramaturgy. My monograph on the theatrical collection of the Count of Gondomar (Iberoamericana, 2014) addressed, for the first time, in a comprehensive way the study of a set of 36 profane manuscript comedies, essential to historicize the formative stage of the Comedia Nueva. The results of the research are a relevant contribution to the panoramic understanding of the dramatic production of the period 1580-1590 and have become a reference for the numerous subsequent works performed by other researchers.

2. Critical edition of classical theatrical heritage. I have edited dramatical texts from Lope de Vega, Mira de Amescua, María de Zayas or Juan Pérez de Montalbán, published in the prestigious Gredos or Reichenberger.

3. Digital Humanities applied to Spanish classical theatre. In this sense, I specifically highlight the line of research on distant readings and visualization as an opportunity for data mining on the early modernity performance practice. I have addressed this investigation line in my recent publications.

4. Research about didactics heritage and digital approaches, which has materialized in transference activities within and outside the classroom. I have participated in four teaching innovation projects and I have directed two teaching innovation research projects elected for funding at public competitive calls.

From the beginning of my career, I am member of scientific team in several research projects with public funding, among them CATCOM/DICAT (PI Teresa Ferrer Valls) and TC/12 macroproject (Coord. Joan Oleza), Consolider program.

I have extensive experience in organizing congresses (more than five are international) and I regularly participate as a reviewer of articles in relevant national and international journals. Between 2016 and 2021, I directed Diablotexto Digital scientific journal and I am currently co-director of the DTD_iLAB Social Innovation Laboratory.

I have participated as a member of the evaluating committee of more than ten doctoral thesis and I co-direct a doctoral thesis by PhD Bernardita Domange (2022).

During the last years, I have assumed university management tasks, of progressive responsibility, carrying out the positions, among which are: Secretary of the Department of Spanish Philology from 2016 to 2019; member of Coordinator’s Team of the Degree in Hispanic Studies from 2014 to October 2016 and from 2019 to 2022. From 2022, I am Director of the Master's in Advanced Hispanic Studies.

ESTELLES ARGUEDAS, MARIA

ESTELLES ARGUEDAS, MARIA

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Departament de Filologia Espanyola Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 32 46010 VALENCIA Despacho nº. 25

(9638) 64884

maria.estelles@uv.es

Biography
 

Full professor at the University of Valencia since 2024, specializing in Spanish pragmatics, oral and conversational Spanish, and interaction. She obtained a degree in Hispanic Philology in 2002, and a PhD in Spanish Language in 2009, both recognized with extraordinary awards for her academic performance.

Her research career has focused on the pragmatics of spoken Spanish, addressing the study of discourse markers from diachronic and synchronic perspectives. She has explored the grammaticalization of discourse markers and constructions with discursive value, as well as broader phenomena such as the structure and units of conversation, evidentiality, mitigation, prosody, and corpus linguistics. She is the coordinator, along with Marta Albelda, of the Ameresco corpus of colloquial conversations in America and Spain, and of the ESPRINT corpus of conflictive communication among intimates in Spanish, which contains domestic conversations and couple therapies collected in Spain and Latin America.

She has published numerous articles in high-impact journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Politeness Research, Pragmatics and Society, Corpus Pragmatics, RILCE, Oralia, and others, and book chapters with prestigious publishers such as Peter Lang and John Benjamins. Additionally, she has been actively involved in international conferences and symposia, often as an invited speaker at renowned institutions like the University of Cambridge, Universiteit Antwerpen, and Universität Heidelberg.

She has continuously participated, from the beginning, in funded research projects, and has been linked to more than eight projects throughout her career, two of which she has led as principal investigator. Moreover, she has conducted pre and postdoctoral research stays at prestigious international universities, including UNAM in Mexico and KU Leuven in Belgium.

She is the editor of the journal Borealis and the journal RESLA and regularly performs review duties for several renowned academic journals. Her interdisciplinary approach to research has allowed her to collaborate on projects that cross boundaries between pragmatics, historical semantics, and linguistic variation and change, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in her field.