The team

Meritxell Simó is a lecturer in Romance Philology and director of the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) at the University of Barcelona (UB). Her main research interests include the European reception of the troubadours and the literary creations and representations of women, and she has worked as both a researcher and project manager in these fields. She is a member of the management committee of the Corpus des Troubadours project (IEC - Union Académique Internationale) and is a Time Machine Ambassador for the European Time Machine network (https://www.timemachine.eu/), which aims to develop the 'Big Data of the past'. She has also been a researcher at the UB's Centre for Women and Literature. Among her most recent work on troubadours, she edited the collection Los Motz e·l so afinan: cantar, llegir, escriure la lírica dels trobadors (Rome, Viella, 2020). Since 2021 she has been a full member of the Secció Històrico-Arqueològica of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

Elizabeth Aubrey is Professor Emerita of Music at the University of Iowa. Professor Aubrey holds a PhD in Music from the University of Maryland and specializes in all aspects of medieval and Renaissance music, including playing it. Professor Aubrey is the author of multiple publications, including the books The Music of the Troubadours (Indiana University Press, 1996) and Songs of the Women Trouvères (Yale University Press, 2001; in collaboration with Eglal Doss-Quinby, Joan Tasker Grimbert and Wendy Pfeffer). She has also given numerous talks and seminars in the United States and Canada, as well as in several European countries (France, Italy, Spain) and Australia.

Elizabeth Aubrey is an acclaimed performer of medieval music. She has given numerous concerts and worked as an advisor to other musicians. She has also recorded a CD of songs as a companion to the book An Introduction to Old Occitan by William D. Paden (The Modern Language Association of America, 1998) and is currently working on other recording projects.

Maria Reina Bastardas i Rufat holds a PhD in Romance Languages and is a senior lecturer in Romance Languages at the University of Barcelona (UB). Her research has focused on historical Romance linguistics, especially on various areas of the lexicon (toponymy and anthroponymy, the respective subjects of her doctoral thesis and her long participation in the PatRom project), as well as etymology, through her collaboration on the DÉRom project. The various research projects in which she has participated all share an historical and comparative pan-Romance perspective.

Vicenç Beltran has been a full professor at the University of Cadiz, the University of Barcelona, and La Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interests are troubadours and medieval and Renaissance lyric poetry of various Romance languages, although he has also explored other topics and periods, including, in particular, ancient oral poetry. He has served as president of the Hispanic Association of Medieval Literature and is a member of the board of directors of the International Hispanists Association, honorary president of the Convivio Association, and a full member of the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC).

Margherita Bisceglia (San Giovanni Rotondo, 1992). Laureata magistrale in Modern Philology, she holds a masters' degree in Romance Philoloy from the University La Sapienza (Rome). Her tesi di laurea consisted of the edition of two poems by Thibaut de Champagne, where the author uses comparisons taken from the medieval bestiaries (july 2017; supervisor Dr. Paolo Canettieri, co-supervisor Dr. Arianna Punzi). She enrolled in the Dottorato in Scienze del testo at La Sapienza (Rome) and in July 2021 she earned her PhD with the dissertation “Lirica e romanzo. Personaggi e motivi arturiani fra letterature d’oc e d’oïl”, ​​supervised by Dr. Paolo Canettieri and by Dr. Meritxell Simó (Universitat de Barcelona). Her main research interests concern the trouvères' lyric and the arthurian verse roman.

Alicia Brosa Lahoz graduated in Business Administration and Management from the Pompeu Fabra University (1998), graduated in Art History from the University of Barcelona (2018) and holds a Master in Medieval Cultures (2022) from the same Catalan university. Fond of Middle Ages, her graduate essay was devoted to the Romanesque ensemble of San Juan Bautista de Ruesta, a study that was later published in a book by the same title by Publicacions UB (2019). Her Master's dissertation was devoted to female authorship in medieval manuscripts and their sources of visual representation. She is currently a doctoral student in the Doctorate in Medieval Cultures at the University of Barcelona. She has collaborated in various research projects in the field of medieval history and art, with the University of Barcelona and the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya.
 

Adriana Camprubí Vinyals earned her PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with the thesis 'Repertorio Métrico y Melódico de la nova cantica (siglos XI, XII y XIII): de la lírica latina a la lírica románica'. She holds an undergraduate degree in Music with a specialization in Romance Literature and Culture (2013) and a master’s degree in Medieval Studies (2014) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She also holds a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Pompeu Fabra University (2015) and a master’s degree in Digital Humanities from the Spanish National Distance Education University (2021). She was recently awarded a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellowship.

Her main research interests concern the study of comparative metrics in medieval lyric poetry, the relationship between text and music in troubadour lyric poetry, paraliturgical lyric poetry, and digital humanities.

She collaborates on several international projects, including, among others, the Gruppo Thibaut (La Sapienza University of Rome) and the MedMus publishing project (Warwick University-La Sapienza University of Rome).

Joan Dalmases Paredes (Barcelona, 1993) holds an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, with specializations in German and French (2015), and a master’s degree in Medieval Cultures (2017) from the University of Barcelona. He earned his doctorate with the thesis ‘Els trobadors del cor menjat: la simbologia del cor en la lírica de Guillem de Cabestany, el Châtelain de Coucy i Reinmar von Brennenberg’ (2020). As a recipient of an APIF fellowship, he worked from 2017 to 2020 as a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) and was part of the research project ‘Los trovadores: creación, recepción y crítica en la edad media y en la edad contemporánea’. He is currently a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctorate fellowship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität of Heidelberg.

2015: Undergraduate degree in Languages, Cultures, Literature, and Translation from Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis in Romance Philology and Linguistics (‘Il Tristano Riccardiano. Lessico e costruzione dei personaggi’, supervised by Prof. G. Paradisi).

2017: Master’s degree in Modern Languages, Literature, and Translation Studies at Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis in Romance Philology and Linguistics (‘Il lessico delle Trobairitz’, supervised by Prof. P. Canettieri; assistant supervisor: Prof. A. Punzi).

2018: PhD in Textual, Palaeographic, and Linguistic Studies at Sapienza University of Rome with a research proposal to develop a thematic atlas of medieval Romance lyric poetry, with special reference to material culture and social organization.

Inés García López holds a PhD in German and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Barcelona. She has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Arts at Rovira i Virgili University since 2019. She has completed research stays at the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Münster (Germany), the University Centre of the Westfjords (Iceland), and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies of Reykjavik (Iceland). In 2020, she was the first researcher from Spain to receive the Snorri Sturluson grant from the Icelandic government to translate an Icelandic saga to Catalan. Her main research interests are medieval Scandinavian literature and the literary reception of medieval European poetry.

A full professor of Romance Philology at Messina University, Saverio Guida specializes in the field of Occitan and has always sought to combine his passion for historical research with the boldest methods of linguistic and literary analysis. He has brought previously unpublished materials to light and given life to several works that have made it possible to solve textual criticism and hermeneutical problems, as well as problems related to the dating and identification of troubadours (see, for example, his Dizionario biografico dei trovatori (Modena, 2014), conceived of and written in collaboration with Gerardo Larghi). He is currently co-editor of the journal Cultura Neolatina and a member of the advisory board of the journal Revista de Literatura Medieval, the advisory board of the journal Filología Románica, and the editorial board of the journal Literatura Italiana Antigua.

Simone Marcenaro (Finale Ligure, 1978) is a Professor in Romance Philology at the University of Molise (Italy). His research has been focused on Romance Medieval Literature, particularly on troubadour poetry. He has published critical editions of Galego-Portuguese troubadours, studies on the manuscript tradition of the "cancioneros" and on Occitan Medieval poetry. He has also published on the Portuguese translation of the Libro de Buen Amor, on the Nota Emilianense, or the scientific culture in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula. He is currently the director of the University of Molise's research team working for the project “Atlante prosopografico delle letterature romanze medievali” and he also collaborates with the research group on Medieval Romance Literature of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Rosa María Medina Granda has been a tenured senior lecturer in Romance Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Oviedo since 1999 and president of the Associacion Internacionala d’Estudis Occitans (International Association for Occitan Studies, AIEO (http://www.aieo.org/) since 2014. She is also general editor of the association’s publications, which are published by Brepols. She has been a member of the accredited research group Historical Sources Lab (DOCULAB) at the University of Oviedo since 2019 (http://doculab.grupos.uniovi.es/). In the past, her research has focused on the syntactical-distributional and semantic study of Romance negation (Occitan, Catalan, French, and Spanish). Her current research interests include: discourse analysis; Romance ‘intercomprehension’; logic, mind, and language; and digital humanities.

Having participated as a full-time member in several research projects at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Dr Medina has joined this University of Barcelona project to further her research comparing the trobairitz to the trouveresses.

Anna M. Mussons is a full professor of Romance Philology at the University of Barcelona, a lecturer in the master’s degree programme on Medieval Cultures, and a member of the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) and of the editorial board of its Medieval Cultures collection. She has researched medieval languages and literature, especially French epic literature, Occitan and Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry, and short narratives. She has collaborated as a researcher on more than 20 research projects on Occitan troubadour lyric poetry, directed the Teaching Quality Improvement (MQD in the Catalan) project ‘Guia d’autoajuda per a la traducció de textos romànics medievals’, collaborated as a language consultant on the Jordi Savall production El reialme oblidat: La Croada contra els Albigesos. La tragèdia càtara, and published some 50 works, mostly about Occitan troubadour lyric poetry, on a variety of topics, including the concept of ‘folia’, troubadour output referring to the crusades, translation issues in certain contexts, the analysis of specific lexicons, and the characterization of certain genres, among others.

Daniel Navarro Torró (Barcelona, 1987) holds an undergraduate degree in Philology and a master’s degree in Medieval Cultures from the University of Barcelona (UB). His research primarily focuses on medieval theatre and other forms of medieval literary expression in Romance languages.

He is a member of the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM), University of Barcelona.

Wendy Pfeffer is Professor Emerita of French at the University of Louisville and a visiting scholar in Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, with a thesis on the literary motif of the nightingale in medieval literature. Her research interests include medieval Occitan lyric literature, Old French lyric poetry, medieval perceptions of women, and culinary history. She has also published several bibliographies, as well as articles on Renaissance authors and contemporary French culture. She is editor-in-chief of Tenso, the only North American journal on Occitan language, literature, and culture, and has been vice-president of the International Association for Occitan Studies since 2014. She is the recipient of two Fulbright fellowships to conduct research in France, in Toulouse (2011) and Tours (2018). She has been recognized by the French government as an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Stefano Resconi is a ricercatore in Romance Philology at the University of Milan. His research interests include Provençal literature and medieval Romance lyric poetry, with a particular focus on the comparative study of manuscript traditions and the Italian reception of the poetry of the troubadours and trouvères. His publications also include contributions on the Commedia, old commentators on Dante’s poem, and medieval French narrative.

After earning her Artium Magister in Romance and German Philology at the University of Mainz (Germany), Angelica Rieger lectured in German as a foreign language for two years at the University of Dijon and four years at the Sorbonne (Paris IV). She earned her PhD in 1989, also at the University of Mainz, with the thesis Der Beitrag der Frau in der altokzitanischen höfischen Lyrik [Trobairitz: Women’s contribution to Old Occitan courtly lyric poetry]. Complete edition (Johannes Gutenberg University Prize, Mainz, 1990). She was a scientific collaborator at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, and a scientific assistant at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) from 1990 to 1996. From 1996 to 1999, she was head of studies at the University of Mainz. She earned her qualification for professorship (Habilitation) at the University of Frankfurt/M. in 1998 with the dissertation Der Maler als Schatten des Schriftstellers in der französischen Erzählliteratur von der Romantik bis zum Fin de siècle [Alter Ego: The Painter as the Writer’s ‘Shadow’ in French Narrative Literature from the Romantic Period to the Fin de Siècle]. Since then, she has worked as a temporary full professor at the universities of Mainz, Konstanz, Potsdam, Düsseldorf, Graz, Osnabrück, and, since 2005, Aachen. Other research interests include: the Middle Ages, Occitan studies, 19th- and 20th-century French and Spanish literature, and intermediality.

Isabel de Riquer Permanyer holds a PhD in Romance Philology and is Professor Emerita of Medieval Romance Literature at the UB. Her teaching and research deal with the publication and study of medieval literary texts in the field of Romance languages. She is a member of the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) board of experts. She has participated in various competitive research projects on the emergence of European linguistic consciousness and the creation and reception of troubadour lyric poetry. She sits on the scientific boards of several national and international journals and is a member of the Spanish Section Bureau of the Société Internationale Rencesvals. In 1988, she was awarded the ‘Grant for Literary Creation’ by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for her translation of Chevalier au lion by Chrétien de Troyes and, in 1995, the UNED Essay Award for the book Contra las mujeres: poemas de rechazo y vituperio (Barcelona, Quaderns Crema), in collaboration with Prof. Robert Archer. She has been a full member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona since 2016.

María Elena Roig Torres is a civil-servant secondary school teacher and associate lecturer in the undergraduate degree programme in Primary Education and the master’s degree programme in Teacher Training at the University of the Balearic Islands. After completing her undergraduate degree in Hispanic Philology, she went on to earn her PhD cum laude in 2015 in Romance Philology at the University of Barcelona with the thesis ‘Trovadores occitanos en Navarra, Navarra en los trovadores occitanos (1134-1234)’, bearing witness to her particular – albeit not exclusive – interest in the interaction of the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula with troubadour lyric poetry.

Abel Vázquez Márquez (Barcelona, 1997) holds an undergraduate degree in Humanities and Journalism from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2020) and a master degree in Medieval Cultures from the Universitat de Barcelona (2022). He is currently a doctoral student in the program of Medieval Cultures at the University of Barcelona and is writing his doctoral dissertation on feminine Catalan Medieval and Renaissance lyric. His research interests include the Romance tradition of the “canción de mujer”, and its presence in Catalonia, Castille and France, its relationship with courtly lyric and female imaginary. He works also on digital edition and digital humanities. He has hold collaboration grants at the  Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals (2020-2021) and the Servei de Museus i Protecció de Béns Mobles of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021). 
 

A tenured senior lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Esther Corral Díaz has been accredited as a full professor since 2015. She was the coordinator of the master’s degree programme in European Medieval Studies at USC (2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic years, including the accreditation process). She has participated in various regional and national competitive research projects, in four cases, as the PI. She is also part of the Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Humanities Research, where she is PI of the project Prosa literaria galega de Idade Media [Medieval Galician Literary Prose]. Her main research interests are medieval romance literature from a transdisciplinary perspective, Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry, and the study of the female sphere in the Middle Ages. Her most recent publications include, among others, the book Voces de mujeres en la Edad Media: entre realidad y ficción (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2019). More information: academia.edu

Isabel Morán Cabanas is a senior lecturer of Portuguese Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her primary research interests are the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and how they have influenced contemporary literatures. Of special note is her work on lexical and thematic aspects of 15th-century courtly poetry, such as Traje, gentileza e poesia. O campos semântico da moda e da vestimenta no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende (2001) and Festa, Teatralidade e escrita. Esboços tetarais no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende (2003). Among her more recent publications, she is the co-author of O meu Portugal [de] Guilherme de Almeida (2016), ‘O retrato descortês das damas no Cancioneiro Geral: motivos e imagens da tradição lírica’ (2018) and ‘Liturgia e cor amarela no Cancioneiro Geral: ainda para una interpretação em chave criptojudaica de Bernardim Ribeiro?’ (2019). She currently coordinates the GRAALL research group (GI-1353) and participates in various national and international projects on the medieval imaginary and literature.

Holder of an undergraduate degree in Romance Philology and Galician-Portuguese Philology and a PhD in Galician-Portuguese Philology, José Antonio Souto is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His research interests include the history of language, with special emphasis on the medieval period, and the sociocultural context in which Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry emerged and developed. In the first field, he has edited and studied literary texts and documents such as Rui Vasques. Crónica de Santa Maria de Íria (2001) and ‘Os primeiros escritos em galego-português: revisão e balanço’ (2014). In the second, his publications include, among others: Os cavaleiros que fizeram as cantigas. Aproximação às origens socioculturais da lírica galego-portuguesa (2012), ‘Et de dona Guiomar nascio don Rodrigo Diaz de los Cameros. Figuras femininas no patrocínio da lírica galego-portuguesa (II)’ (2018), and ‘De illis e Mirapeixe: Monio Fernandi. O trovador Múnio Fernandes de Mirapeixe e a sua parentela’ (2020).

Holder of an undergraduate degree in Classical Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) (1960) and a PhD in Portuguese Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP) (1972), Yara Frasteschi Vieira is a full professor of Portuguese Literature in the Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Language Studies, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil (retired). She specializes in medieval Galician-Portuguese literature and contemporary Portuguese literature. A list of her publications and activities is available on the Lattes Platform of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Miguel García-Fernández holds an undergraduate degree in History (2011) and a master’s degree in Medieval European Studies (2012) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). After working as an intern and a predoctoral research fellow at USC (2012-2016), an intern at Corpus Documentale Latinum Gallaeciae at the Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Humanities Research (CRPIH) (2017-2019), and a senior research support officer at the USC’s Galician Language Institute (ILG-USC) (2019-2020), he joined the Spanish National Research Council’s (CSIC’s) Pare Sarmiento Institute for Galician Studies as a senior officer for technical and professional activities. His research interests include the social history of women during the Middle Ages. He has participated in several national and international conferences and published his research on the medieval history of Galicia and the history of women in various journals and collective works.

Holder of a PhD in History of Art from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Victoriano Nodar Fernández is currently a lecturer in the Department of History, Art, and Geography at the University of Vigo. He has extensive professional experience in cultural management, especially in the field of temporary exhibitions. In recent years, he has worked as a historical advisor for various restoration projects at the Compostela basilica, responsible for drafting the preliminary historical-artistic reports for the interventions and overseeing the work. Specializing in Romanesque sculpture along the pilgrimage routes, he has mainly published on Romanesque iconography in general and at the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in particular.

Tania Vázquez García holds an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Romance Philology track), with a Special Award distinction from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Over the course of her academic career, she has received multiple grants. She was a member of the Medieval Galician Literary Prose project (Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Humanities Research, CRPIH). Her research interests include medieval literature in vernacular languages, with special emphasis on the trobairitz and the representation of women in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de escarnio. She was a member of the Voces de mujeres en la Edad Media: realidad y ficción (siglos XII-XIV) [Women’s Voices in the Middle Ages: Reality and Fiction] (12th-14th centuries) (FFI2014-55628-P) project, which yielded significant findings that were presented at international conferences and published in high-impact journals. She is currently a secondary school teacher and continues to research women in the Middle Ages.

Michel Sleiman is a lecturer on Arab Language and Literature in the Department of Oriental Languages at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he also participates in the postgraduate programme on Foreign Languages and Translation. He earned his PhD in Portuguese Literature (1997-2002) and a master’s degree in Spanish Literature (1991-1996) at USP. He studied the dialectical literature of Al-Andalus, with contributions on Ibn Quzman’s zajals and issues with their Portuguese translation. He also translates Arabic poetry.

Maria Ana Ramos is a Professor Emerita at the University of Zurich (Romanisches Seminar) and was head of Portugese (Language, Linguistics, Literature and Philology) and director of the Carlos de Oliveira Chair (Camões IP) at the University of Zurich (-2019). She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Classical University of Lisbon, where she taught History of the Portuguese Language. Following specialization in Romance Philology at the Sapienza University of Rome she moved to the University of Zurich, where she earned her qualification for professorship (Habilitation) in Romance Philology. Her research and publications focus on the history of Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry, the textual variations of its production, processes of transmission and reception in the medieval period, and collective poetry anthologies, in particualr with reference to the Cancioneiro de Ajuda. She is also interested in short narrative forms and linguistic aspects of the plays of Gil Vicente.

Javier Castiñeiras López earned his PhD in Art History in 2018. He has worked for the Santa María la Real de Aguilar de Campoo Foundation and as a member of the teaching staff at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of León. His publications include, among others, the monograph Reforma y tradición en el románico gallego. Los ejemplos de Rebordáns y Mondoñedo (2020). He is a collaborating member of the ‘Patrimonio Artístico Medieval’ [Medieval Artistic Heritage] research group at the University of León and a staff member of the Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Humanities Research in Santiago de Compostela, where he participates in the ‘Prosa Literaria Galega Medieval’ [Medieval Galician Literary Prose] project. His main research interests include Romanesque art, the relationships between visual and literary culture, and new digital media recreations of the Middle Ages.

Mariña Bermúdez Beloso holds an undergraduate degree in Medieval History and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Her doctoral thesis, which she defended in 2017, dealt with the study of the territory of the north-western Iberian peninsula, mainly Galicia, during the middle centuries of the Middle Ages. She has continued to pursue this line of research in her postdoctoral project, placing special emphasis on cartography. She is a member of the ‘Historia Medieval: Sociedad y Territorio’ [Medieval History: Society and Territory] research group at USC and is an external collaborator of the CODOLGA project at the Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Humanities Research. Her publications include, among others, the monograph ‘Ad tudensem ecclesias que in vicio sunt’: a organización do espazo de antiga diócese de Tui ao Norte do Miño (Valga, 2018).

Araceli Luna Magariños graduated in Galician Language and Literature (2014) and obtained a master's degree in European Medieval Studies (2015) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. From 2018 to 2021 she taught at the Centre for Galician Language and Culture Studies of the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil). Since 2022 she has taught subjects related to Spanish language at the Language and Communication Centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. She is currently a doctoral student in the Postgraduate Programme in Literary Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Doctoral Programme in Medieval Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela, for which she is preparing the thesis Representaciones de la violencia contra la mujer en la lírica medieval gallego-portuguesa [Representations of violence against women in medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry]. The main focus of her research is the medieval cantiga, looking in particular at depictions of violence against women, feminine violence and the models transmitted by the genre of the escárnio.