Alejandro Coroleu

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Humanities

After studying Classics and Renaissance Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, I undertook postdoctoral research at The Warburg Institute (University of London). I taught and researched at the University of Nottingham between 1995 and 2008. I have also been Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Salzburg. In 2009 I accepted a Research Professorship at ICREA in the Department of Catalan at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where I am conducting research on Renaissance literary culture.


Research interests

Classical and Comparative Literature: Latin literary culture in Europe (1500-1780). Intellectual History and Renaissance Studies: Hispanic, Italian and European Humanism. The reception of Greek and Roman literatures in Catalunya (1480-1750).

Selected publications

– Cabré L, Coroleu A, Ferrer M, Lloret A & Pujol J 2018,The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500: Translation, Imitation, Literacy,  Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer.

– Battista Alberti L 2018, Els avantatges i els desavantages de les lletres, introducció i traducció del text latí a cura d’Alejandro Coroleu, Martorell: Editorial Adesiara.

– Coroleu A 2018, ‘Sobre la obra poética de Antonio Telesio, amigo de Garcilaso’, in Contexto latino y vulgar de Garcilaso en Nápoles: Redes de relaciones de humanistas y poetas (manuscritos, cartas, academias), edited by Eugenia Fosalba and Gáldrick de la Torre Ávalos (Bern: Peter Lang), pp. 171-84

–  Coroleu A &  Coll-Vinent S 2018, ‘Joan Estelrich and the Reception of Vives in Interwar Europe’,  in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Vindobonensis: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Vienna, 2015), edd. Astrid Steiner-Weber & Franz Römer, Leiden-Boston: Brill, pp. 197-205

– Coroleu A 2018, ‘The reception of Poliziano’s letters in sixteenth-century France’, Camenae, no. 22, pp. 1-9

Selected research activities

I enjoyed a short research stay at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien (Universität Innsbruck)

I gave three papers in Barcelona, Naples and Innsbruck.

I co-organised the Jornades internacionals sobre el món clàssic en honor de Carles Miralles at the IEC

I served as assessor for Ikerbasque (Junior Research Call). I served as referee for the Research Council KU Leuven and for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Competition awarded by the Research Foundation-Flanders

I sat on the editorial board of ITACA: Quaderns de Cultura Clàssica (Universitat de Barcelona), and on the advosiry board of the journals Futuro Classico (Università di Bari), Studia Aurea (Universitat de Girona) and Humanistica Lovaniensia (Leuven)

Secretary of the Societat Catalana d’Estudis Clássics

I wrote five peer reviews for international journals

Guest lecturer: University of Portland (Salzburg Program)