Carmen Blanco

Professor of Italian Philology. University of Cordoba.

Doctorate in Italian Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1992), with a thesis on the Dolce Stil Novo School of Poetry. She has held various management positions at the University of Cordoba, including Director General of Culture and Vice-Rector for Students and Culture. She directs the HUM 872 (Junta de Andalucía) research group “Studies in Italian Philology and Translation” ESFILTRAS.

Her research includes studies on Italian literature of the Middle Ages, and particularly her work on Giovanni Boccaccio.

She is a member of the Hispanic Association of Medieval Literature (AHLM), the Société de Linguistique Romane (SLR), the Society of Spanish Italianists (SEI) and the American Boccaccio Association (ABA). His translations include the Spanish translation of the Filocolo and the Trattatello in laude di Dante, both by Giovanni Boccaccio, and the translation into Galician of an anthology of Antonio Gramsci’s Quaderni dal carcere. She has conducted numerous research stays, mainly in Italy and the United States.