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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).

MARIA MANUELA DOS SANTOS NETO. Graduate in Portuguese Philology - Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Doctor in Applied Linguistics - Polytechnic University of Valencia.  

Professor of Portuguese at the François Rabelais University - Tours - France.

Professor at the Camões Institute (Portugal) of Portuguese language, literature and culture at the Universities of León and Oviedo (Spain) and at the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest. (Hungary).

Visiting Professor / Teacher at the Camões Institute at the University of Valencia between October 2005 and January 2016 and then between 2020 and 2024.

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