I am Professor of Spanish Literature in the Department of Spanish Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Vigo, which I joined in 1997, and I am part of the research group e-Lite (Ediciones y estudios de literatura española).
My research career has always been related to the medieval period and especially to the literature of the 15th century: sentimental prose fiction, travel books and, in particular, songbook poetry. In this last field I have dealt with aspects such as the critical edition of texts or the analysis of genres, metrics, authors, rhetorical resources or thematic motifs in songbooks from different periods. It can be said that over the years I have been able to build up a coherent scientific production both in terms of my publications and participation in international forums, as well as in terms of directing doctoral theses or evaluating publications and projects for different journals, publishing houses or national and regional agencies.
After having participated in different research projects and networks, I am currently leading as PI an international team made up of leading specialists from six different countries, which has already received funding from the AEI’s State Plan for the Generation of Knowledge in different calls for proposals. We gather information about the historical, linguistic and literary context in which cancionero poetry was conceived and disseminated in its origins and, simultaneously, the re-reading of this context that has been carried out in later Spanish literature up to the present day. This team has already produced several monographs in book form and in special volumes of indexed journals, the coordination of round tables at international congresses in our field and the organisation of scientific meetings, many of them in collaboration with other national and foreign projects and groups.