Co-applicant

Erik Ekman received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 1998 with a thesis on the intersection between narrative and exegesis in the General estoria. He is Professor of Spanish at Oklahoma State University where he teaches Spanish language, literature, and culture. He has held academic positions at Michigan State University, SUNY New Paltz, […]

Elena Caetano Álvarez is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Bristol and also works in Academic Engagement at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Having completed her PhD in 2021 at the University of Birmingham, her research focuses on medieval Iberian historiography, with particular attention to the construction of political authority and imperial […]

Miguel Las Heras is Assistant Professor at Universidad de la Rioja. He holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the same University. His research and academic interest are mainly focused on the study of punctuation in Alfonso X the Wise’s historiographical production, as well as on the use of Digital Humanities in his research.

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, followed by a postdoctoral research project on the presence of Pedro Comestor’s Historia Scholastica in Portugal. She was a Portuguese language and literature teacher at […]

JUAN UDAONDO ALEGRE is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University. His research focuses on Classical, Semitic, and Ancient Near Eastern traditions that are at the foundations of Iberian culture. His recent book, The Spanish Hermes and Wisdom traditions in Medieval Iberia: Alfonso X’s General Estoria (Durham University IMEMS […]

Ifeoma Adaji is an assistant professor of computer science at UBC’s Okanagan campus. She completed her Master’s degree from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK and her Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She briefly worked in industry as a data scientist after her Ph.D. in lieu of a postdoc.  Her research […]

Graduated in Political Science (University of Florence), Theology (McGill University, Montreal) and Hispanic Studies (Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke QC), holds an MA and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Montreal. His area of research is medieval biblical translations in Castilian, particularly the Escorial E6 and E8 versions (13th century), which were the subject […]

F. Javier Pueyo Mena is a tenured researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He earned his MA in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology at the University of Deusto (Spain). He is currently living in the United States, where he has been appointed as a […]

David Navarro is Professor in the Department of World Languages and Literatures in Texas State University, and brings to this project expertise in medieval Iberian literature and historiography, biblical exegesis, Jewish–Christian relations in the Iberian kingdoms, and Judeo-Spanish. He contributes with the identification of non-cited Hebrew sources in the GE, especially those of Biblical origin […]

Antonio R. Rubio Flores (Córdoba, 1965) holds a PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Granada. He has been a professor of Spanish Literature at Duke University, and won a position as Spanish Advisor at the Missouri University of Columbia. He was part of rock bands in the 90’s as a producer, composer, lyricist […]

Following his studies in music and musicology (University Lyon 2), he obtained his PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Former director of the Center for Arab and Mediterranean Music (Ennejma Ezzahra Palace), he now teaches at the University of Sousse (Higher Institute of Music). He is also a researcher at the L3S laboratory (ENIT), associate […]