Alejandro Coroleu

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 (ca. 1480-ca. 1720) Intellectual History and Renaissance Studies: Hispanic, Italian and European Humanism The reception of Greek and Roman literatures in early modern Iberia (1450-1600)

Selected publications

– Latin and Vernacular in Renaissance Iberia, III: Ovid from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, edd. Barry Taylor & Alejandro Coroleu, Splash Editions: London, 2020

– Alejandro Coroleu 2020, ‘La traducción de los historiadores griegos y latinos en los Siglos de Oro (1475-1625)’, in Diccionario de la historia de la traducción en España, edd. Francisco Lafarga & Luis Pegenaute, Madrid, 10 pp.

– “El relato de Aristomenes de Apuleyo”, traducción del texto latino de Alejandro Coroleu, in Poder del sueño: Relatos antiguos y modernos reunidos y presentados por Roger Caillois, Vilaür: Atalanta, 2020, pp. 129-40

– Franciscus Satorres, Delphinus – Le Dauphin (1543), édition critique, traduction et commentaires par Olivier Rimbault, préface d’Alejandro Coroleu, Perpignan: Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2020, pp. 9-12

– Alejandro Coroleu 2020, Review of ‘Classics Transformed’, edd. G. Abbamonte & C. Kallendorf, Pisa, 2018, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 27, 4, pp. 634-6.  

– Alejandro Coroleu 2020, Review of Pedro Martín Baños. La pasión de saber.Vida de Antonio de Nebrija, Huelva, in eHumanista, 45, pp. 245-8.

Selected research activities

Principal Investigator of the Research project Traducción y público lector en la Corona de Aragón (1380-1530): obras de inspiración clásica (Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, 2020-24). Code: PID2019-103874GB-100.

General editor of the online journal Translat Library (University of Massachusetts Amherst–UAB)

Member of the SGR research group “Cultura i Literatura a la Baixa Edat Mitjana” (2017-142)

Member of the editorial board of ITACA: Quaderns de Cultura Clàssica (Barcelona) and of the advisory board of FuturoClassico (Bari), Studia Aurea (Girona) and Humanistica Lovaniensia (Leuven)

Secretary of the Societat Catalana d’Estudis Clàssics

Peer reviewer for 5 international journals

I presented a paper at the Seminari de Literatura Catalana Medieval i Moderna (UB).

Guest lecturer: University of Portland (Salzburg Program)