Juan Ballesteros

Juan R. Ballesteros Sánchez (UPO) is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy and a specialist in mediaeval and modern historiography on Antiquity. His studies range from classical historiography to the humanistic approach to Antiquity. Recently, he is the author of a critical edition of Iustus Lipsius’ Admiranda (1598). He has also studied the tradition of classical authors such as Aelius Aristides, Martial, and the Historia Augusta in monographic publications. Now he is interested in detecting and studying the ways of quoting, reading and adapting Greek and Latin sources. His goal is to present the General Estoria as a neoclassical experience and the classical elements recovered and employed by the General Estoria team in fields such as Geography, Astronomy, Ethnography or Linguistics.

Elisa Borsari

Elisa Borsari es Doctora cum Laude en Literatura Medieval (UAH), mención de Doctor Europeo y Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado (2011). Recibió el Premio de Bibliografía de la Biblioteca Nacional 2009. Es profesora de Literatura Española en la Universidad de Córdoba. Ha sido profesora de lengua, literatura y didáctica en las universidades de La Rioja, Alcalá, Autónoma de Madrid, y Directora de la Cátedra de Español (UR). Tiene una larga trayectoria investigadora: publicación y edición de libros, y artículos en revistas internacionales. También la participado en la preparación de varios manuales de enseñanza de español para extranjeros y otros materiales educativos, así como su traducción al inglés. Participa en varios proyectos I+D+i y de Innovación Docente (DHuMAR, BITAE, BIPROSA). Es especialista en traducciones medievales y Humanidades Digitales. Es secretaria de varias revistas científicas internacionales.

Katie Brown

Katie Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Director of Education and Student Experience at the University of Exeter. A specialist in contemporary Venezuelan culture, her main research interests are the circulation of people (travel, migration and exile) and texts (publishing, cultural policy and translation). She also researches and teaches about intermedialty and cultural responses to politics in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Katie is also a professional translator and a founding member of the transatlantic translation collective Colaboratorio Ávila. She puts this collaborative translation methodology to use by supervising the English translation strand of the ‘Confluence of Religious Cultures’ project. She regularly shares translations online, particularly through Latin American Literature Today. Her translation of Alejandra Banca’s Desde la salvajada is forthcoming with Selkie’s House (2024).

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Francisco Gago Jover

Francisco Gago-Jover is Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts). He studied at the University of Valladolid, receiving a BA in Geography and History in 1985. Later he pursued doctoral studies in Linguistics and Spanish Romance Philology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctoral thesis was a study of the Castilian military lexicon in the Middle Ages. He is the author of two dictionaries of military terminology, an edition of the Spanish version of Arte de bien morir, various articles on lexicography, creation of linguistic corpus and stylometrics, and numerous paleographic transcriptions of Spanish medieval texts.

He has taught doctoral courses at different universities in the United States (University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Boston University) and in Spain (Universidad de León, Universidad de Valladolid and Universitat de les Illes Balears), and has offered numerous workshops on different applications of the digital humanities (paleography and automatic transcription of texts, stylometry, design of linguistic corpus, etc.).

As Director of Digital Projects at the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, he is in charge of the Digital Library of Old Spanish Texts, the Lexical Studies of Medieval Textsbibliography, and the Old Spanish Textual Archive, a linguistic corpus, lemmatized and morphologically labeled, of nearly 35,000,000 words, of medieval texts written in Castilian, Asturian, Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese and Aragonese.

Aleyna Kirilmis

Aleyna is a fourth-year student of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Though she’s personally very interested in both medieval and the history of religion, her work focuses on managing the project from the Headquarters at UBC-O! As she approaches the end of her undergraduate degree, her research is focused on health and labour economics, but she’s also an enthusiast of films, classic literature, and gardening. If you have any questions about the project, make sure to reach out to her, as she’ll be more than happy to get you in contact with people who can answer your questions!  

Marianna Leite

Mariana Leite obtained her PhD in Literature from the University of Porto in 2013, with a thesis on the Portuguese reception of the General Estoria of Alfonso X of Castile. She is concluding a postdoctoral research project at Instituto de Filosofia (U. Porto), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), on the presence of Pedro Comestor’s Historia Scholastica in Portugal, including a digital edition of the medieval Portuguese translations of the Latin work. She was a Portuguese language and literature teacher at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2014-2016) and at the Universität Zürich (2020-2021); she also taught Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Porto with Professor José Carlos Miranda (2017-2019). 
Her research focuses on studying and transcribing medieval texts, with a particular interest in universal historiography. In recent years, she has dedicated her investigation to the presence of sources for universal chronicles (especially Biblical and Classical) in medieval Portuguese culture.

Enrique Pato

Enrique Pato (UdeM) is Professor in the Department of World Literatures and Languages, and a specialist in historical grammar of Spanish. He will participate in the linguistic commentary of the text, and he will have a major role in coordinating our project with other philological projects in Europe, through his extensive net of contacts and previous collaborators in the field. He will also be in charge of putting together a first French translation sub-team, alongside students from the Departments of World Literatures and Languages and Linguistics and Translation at UdeM.

Francisco Peña Fernández

Professor at the Department of Languages and World Literatures at the University of British Columbia and Coordinator of the World Literatures Program. He earned his BA in Ancient and Medieval History at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) his PhD in Hebrew Philology and Religious Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and his PhD in Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of California, Davis.

His research is wide-ranging and interdisciplinary in nature. It spans Medieval Studies, Literary and Biblical Studies, and Religious Studies. His research engage in a synthesizing analysis of literature, history, and religion so as to develop new understandings of Medieval Iberian cultures. It currently focuses on the connections between Christian and Jewish exegetical traditions, examining Jewish writers that worked on Biblical texts, to piece together the connections between historical religious knowledge and the communities of learned people that created central texts of the period. He has contributed to a rich debate on the role of Judaism in Christian thought in Medieval Spain, which has largely divided American and Spanish medievalists.

Silvia Pérez González

Doctor in History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain), Doctor Dissertation on Society and Church in Seville at the End of the Middle Ages, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 2001. Cureently Professor at the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy, Area of Medieval History, and Director of the Seminary of Gender Studies. University of Pablo de Olavide. Member of several projects, Construir la Ciudad (Universidad de León), Monastic Landscapes (Universidad de Barcelona) and Cities in the Kingdom of Castile (Universidad Complutense) and Sorores (Écoles Française de Rome). Recent publications include Mujeres y Hermandades. La feminización del mundo cofrade(2022), “La religiosidad de los testamentos del fondo Ilustrísima Señora Doña Pilar Ponce de León y de las Heras (siglos XV-XVI)” (2022)

David Porcel Bueno

Degree in Hispanic Philology (2009), Romance Philology (2011) and Arabic Philology (2014) from the University of Granada, and Degree in Hebrew Philology (2016) from the Complutense University of Madrid, he completed postgraduate studies in the University of Granada (Masters in Classical Philology) and is a doctor in Spanish Philology from the University of Valencia (2015). He is currently finishing his second doctoral thesis in Galician-Portuguese Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg, at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), at the University of Oxford and at the University of Bologna, and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Graz, Kassel, Rostock, Montreal, Verona, Padua, Belgrade, among others. He is currently a Assitant Professor in the Department of Philology: Romance, Italian, Galician-Portuguese and Catalan, at the University of Granada. His lines of research focus on the study of Ibero-Romance languages ​​and literatures, especially in their medieval and classical phase, and on the relationships they establish with other Iberian (Arabic, Hebrew and Medieval Latin) and Romance languages ​​and literatures (Italian, Occitan and French). He has participated in six international research projects and has published numerous papers on diachronic Romance linguistics and medieval Romance literatures in internationally renowned journals and monographs in the field of philological studies.

Annie Wan

Dr Annie WAN is an international digital media scholar, primarily research interests in adopting extended realities technologies for well-being and for social good. In 2012 she earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, United States (one of the Public Ivies, ranked 16th best in the World (ARWU 2020)), in Digital Arts and Experimental Media. She grew up in Singapore and UK, has been living in Sweden and the US.

Wan was a Course Leader of BA Virtual Reality in the University of the Arts London, an Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Education University. She was the Principle Investigator of a European Commission’s European Regional Development Fund funded project, ACE IT, which supports London-based start-ups and SMEs to conceptualise, research and develop innovative products and services in the area of virtual/ augmented/ mixed reality/ mobile solutions in 2020-2022.

Her creative works have been exhibited in festivals in Europe, Asia and North America, including Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2018,  Art Neureau: A neuroscience- inspired art show in Seattle in 2017, The Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Hong Kong in 2015, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 (Hong Kong, China) and International Festival of Creativity, Ogaki Biennale 2010 (Ogaki, Japan), Innovation & Digital Culture (Canary Islands, Spain), ZeroOne/ ISEA 2006 (San Jose, United States), French Pavilion in 10th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy), Art +Communication Festival 2004 (Riga, Latvia), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference 2004 (Singapore), etc.

Other past collaborators include West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Psychology on the Hong Kong’s first IT platform for mental health and well-being.