I studied English Philology at the University of Barcelona and obtained my PhD in Catalan Philology in 2003 at the same University. I have been a researcher and assistant lecturer at the University of Barcelona (1996-2000) and at the University of Girona (2005-2009). From 2003 to 2005 I was a postdoc researcher at the University of Rome-La Sapienza and at the University of L’Aquila. In 2005 I accepted an ICREA Junior position at the University of Girona, and in 2009 I moved to the University of Barcelona, where I am ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Catalan Philology–IRCVM. I have been the PI of two ERC projects: The Last Song of the Troubadours. Linguistic Codification and Construction of a Literary Canon in the Crown of Aragon (ERC-StG-2008, No. 240170), and Ioculator seu Mimus. Performing Music and Poetry in Medieval Iberia (ERC-CoG-2017, No. 772762).

My research explores the Catalan lyric tradition within medieval Romance poetry, revealing its significance in European cultural history. I am interested in poetic genres, intertextuality, discursive traditions, and textual criticism. The study of a 15th-century songbook containing troubadour works, lyrical and narrative texts by Catalan poets, and a 14th-century French poetry anthology, led me to delve deeper into how the troubadours’ poetic language shaped our understanding of lyricism. I am currently developing the MiMus DB, a database that houses information from a vast corpus of archive documents related to artists involved in the musical life of the courts of the kings of the Crown of Aragon from the mid-13th to the mid-15th century. The MiMus DB reveals evidence that not only corroborates existing hypotheses about intertextual borrowings and allusions in medieval poetry but also allows researchers to gain new insights into the creation, dissemination and reception of texts.