Who’s who

Teresa Pinheiro

Teresa Pinheiro is a Professor for Iberian Studies at the Institute for European Studies of Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. She graduated from the Universität zu Köln and the Universidade de Lisboa with degrees in German and Portuguese Studies and received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the Universität Paderborn, Germany in 2002. Her research fields include emigration, representations of collective identity, and the politics of memory in the Iberian Peninsula. She is Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies and is currently working in a digital project on the Second Spanish Republic.

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Aude Plagnard

Aude Plagnard obtained a PhD in Spanish literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris and is currently Maîtresse de conférences in Comparative Literature at Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier. She holds a Lucienne Domergue fellowship at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study […]

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Josep Miquel Ramis

Josep Miquel Ramis received his MA and PhD in Translation and Interpretation Studies from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Additionally, he was a fellow of the “Formación de Profesorado Universitario” at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation from 2007 to 2011. In the past, he was a lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and he currently works at the Universitat de Barcelona. Dr. Ramis is also a member of the inter-university research group TRILCAT, Grup d’Estudis de Traducció, Recepció i Literatura Catalana. Ramis’ extensive research focuses on Translation and Receptions Studies and Contemporary Catalan Literature.

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Susana Rocha Relvas

Susana Rocha Relvas is a Researcher at CEFi Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, Lisbon). She obtained her MA at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon, with a dissertation on António Sardinha e suas relações culturais com Espanha, recolha, transcrição e análise da correspondência espanhola e hispano-americana (1998), and her PhD at the same university with a dissertation on O Pensamento de Leonardo Coimbra: afinidades e convergências no espaço ibérico e ibero-americano (2009).

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Joan Ramon Resina

Joan Ramon Resina is the Director of the Iberian Studies Program at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Relations and Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, United States. He received an M.A. and the PhD in Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley. Prof. Resina specializes in modern European literatures and cultures with an emphasis on Catalan and Spanish traditions. In the past, he held teaching positions at Cornell University, where he edited the journal of critical theory Diacritics, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Northwestern University.

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Jesús Revelles Esquirol

Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Catalan Studies – Literary Theory

Jesús Revelles Esquirol is an Associate Teacher at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics from the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He graduated in Literary Theory and Humanities from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and obtained a Ph.D. from the same institution

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Juan Miguel Ribera Llopis

Juan Miguel Ribera Llopis is a Professor of the Catalan Philology Department at the Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain, specialized in Comparative Literature, History and Geography, and Languages of Urban Spaces. His interests include Catalan literature and culture, Iberian Studies and Travel Literature.

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César Rina Simón

César Rina Simón is Lecturer of History at the Universidad de Extremadura. His research specializes in the topics of democracy and dictatorship, and also on 19th and 20th century Iberianism. He has published extensively on these subjects, for instance in La construcción de la memoria franquistas en Cáceres. Héroes, espacio y tiempo para un nuevo estado, 1936-1942 (2012) or Los imaginarios franquistas y la religiosidad popular, 1936-1949 (2015).

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Rexina Rodríguez Vega

Rexina Rodríguez Vega is a Lecturer at the Department of Spanish at the Universidade de Vigo. Rodríguez Vega holds a PhD in Romance Philology and has worked as a literary critic in journals such as A Nossa Terra, Grial, and the Anuario de Estudos Literarios Galegos. As a literary author, Rodríguez Vega has also written several works of fiction, such as Cardume (2007), Dark Butterfly (2012) and Nadie duerme (2017).

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José Antonio Sabio Pinilla

José Antonio Sabio Pinilla is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada, where he teaches translation from Portuguese into Spanish and Translation theory and history. He is also a member of the research group Lenguas y Culturas (HUM 354), funded by the Junta de Andalucía, and a founder of the ‘Jornadas sobre Tradução de Espanhol para Português e de Português para Espanhol’, organized annually since 2018 by the University of Granada and the Nova University of Lisbon.

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Antonio Sáez Delgado

Antonio Sáez Delgado (Universidade de Évora) is an Associate Professor (Professor Associado com agregação) in the Linguistics and Literature Department as well as the School of Social Studies at the Universidade de Évora, Portugal. He received his PhD in Hispanic Literature and Philology at the Universidad de Extremadura, Spain, in 1999. Sáez Delgado holds the Giovanni Pontiero Translation award from the Instituto Camões, Portugal and the Eduardo Lourenço Award from the Iberian Studies Center at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. He additionally is a researching member of “DIIA – Iberian and Iberian Dialogues.”

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Mario Santana

Mario Santana is an Associate Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago, USA, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Catalan Studies Program. He received his PhD in Spanish Literature from Columbia University. In the past he has been visiting professor at Harvard University and CUNY.

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José Miguel Sardica

José Miguel Sardica is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Human Sciences and of the Institute for Political Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and is presently a member of the Board of the Scientific Society at the same university. Additionally, he is a member of the Directive Board of the Inter-University Doctoral Program in History. His general research interests include 19th and 20th century Portuguese and international history in fields such as politics, culture, and media.

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Núria Silleras-Fernández

Núria Silleras-Fernández is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. She specializes in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian literatures and cultures (13th to 16th centuries), Cultural and Intellectual History, Gender studies, Catalan Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.

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Elias J. Torres Feijó

Elias J. Torres Feijó is a Lecturer (Profesor Titular) of Portuguese language, literature, and culture at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He is the director of the Galabra Research group, which focuses on Galician literature and culture in relation to other Iberian and Lusophone cultures. Additionally, he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for his dissertation, “Galicia in Portugal, Portugal in Galicia through literary journals” (1996).

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Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo

Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo is lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; previously he was researcher at the Universidade do Porto. From 2012 to 2015, he lectured at the University of Dublin, in Ireland. Vargas Díaz Toledo has been involved in several research groups, including, but not limited to, the Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Philology at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares and the Research Centre of the Faculty of Letters of the Universidade de Lisboa (CLEPUL), and SMELPS, from the Instituto de Filosofía da Universidade do Porto. He also leads the project Almoroul’s Universe:, an online database on 16th to 18th-century Portuguese chivalric literature.

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Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Areas of Interest: Film Studies — Film History — Iberian Cinemas — Portuguese Film — Spanish Film — Galician Film

Iván Villarmea Álvarez is an Assistant Professor of History of Film at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is the author of Documenting Cityscapes. Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and co-editor the volumes Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portugués en el Siglo XXI (2014, with Horacio Muñoz Fernéndez) and New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019, with Filipa Rosário).

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David Wacks

Areas of Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic Studies, Mediterranean Studies

David Wacks is a Professor of Spanish at the Romance Languages Department of the University of Oregon (USA). He holds a BA in English Literature (Columbia University), a M.A. in Spanish Literature and Language (Boston College), and a Ph.D. inHispanic Literatures and Languages (University of California at Berkeley).

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Ulrich Winter

Ulrich Winter is a Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Philipps-Universität-Marburg (Germany). He received the PhD in Romance Literature at Heidelberg University. Prof. Winter specializes in European and Comparative literatures, Cultural Theory and Visual Culture. He is a member of the research group MHLI – Historical Memory in Iberian Literatures.

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