Pilar Lorenzo Gradín, PhD
Full Professor
Research Group: GI-1350 Romance Philology
Office: 206
Phone: +34 8818 11826 (ext.)
E-mail: pilar.lorenzo@usc.es

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Is a Romance Philology professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), where she earned her PhD in 1987 (Extraordinary Doctorate Award). As a teacher, she has taught topics such as Romance Linguistics, Medieval Romance Literature, Occitan Literature, Codicology, and Textual Criticism. Her comparative research focuses on the following topics: the «woman’s song» in European Medieval poetry; Galician-Portuguese poetry and its dissemination on digital platforms; the cancioneiros’ manuscript tradition; the edition and study of the trobadores‘ poetic corpus; and the reception and influence of Provencal and French literature on Iberian literature. She has also investigated intertextual links in troubadour poetry and the metrical characteristics of cantigas. She has been a visiting researcher at the following universities and centers throughout her career: Rome’s ‘La Sapienza,’ Coimbra’s Universidade, Lisboa’s Universidade Clássica, Milan’s Università degli Studi, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, and Paris’s Collège de France.
From 1996 until 2015, she headed the project Medieval Galician Literary Prose at the Centro Ramón Piñeiro para Investigación en Humanidades (CRPIH, Xunta de Galicia). Since 2014, she has worked with Mercedes Brea to co-direct the Galician-Portuguese Profane Lyric project, which is linked to the MedDB and PalMed databases. She was named Technical Director of the CRPIH’s Literature Area in 2020. She has directed multiple competitively financed research projects, as well as participated in a COST action and in the Interreg V-A program (0358-Geoarpard 1 E). She has supervised the dissertations of fifteen PhD students.
In 2005, she founded the transdisciplinary Doctoral Program The Middle Ages. Images, Texts, and Contexts, that obtained a Quality Mention from the Ministry of Education (MCD2005-00241). Since 2002, she has been the academic director at the USC of the European Doctorate in Philology and Criticism – Romance Philology Curriculum (a program coordinated by the Università degli Studi di Siena and involving the following institutions and universities: Milan, Pisa, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Collège de France, Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Santiago de Compostela, and Zürich). She managed the Doctoral Program in Medieval Studies and was in charge of degree verification between 2012 and 2013. She also directed the Romance Philology Ph.D. Program from 2009 to 2016, which received a Mention of Excellence from the Ministry of Education (MEE2011-0660). Since September 2020, she has been in charge of organizing the Romance Philology Research Group 1350 (recognized as a Competitive Reference Group by the Xunta de Galicia).
Throughout her career, she has organized five international colloquiums and over twenty specialist seminars at the USC. She has delivered numerous conferences and seminars at Spanish and international institutions, as well as acted as a guest professor at a number of courses and national and international conferences. She sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious specialty publications in her field of study. She also edits the ‘Medioevo Ispanico’ series for the Italian publisher Edizioni dell’Orso (Alessandria). Between 2007 and 2015, she was a permanent member of the Centro di Ricerca su Testi e Tradizioni Testuali at the University of Pavia, led by Cesare Segre, and since 2013, she has been a member of the CiLengua Institute of Literature and Translation. Finally, since September 2022, she serves as Vice President of the SEMYR.
R&D Projects (Principal Investigator)
- Notas literarias de Angelo Colocci
- O cancionero de Fernan Rodriguez de Calheiros. Edición e estudio
- Paleografía, Lingüística e Filoloxía. Laboratorio on-line da lírica galegoportuguesa
- Cancioneiros galego-portugueses. Da paleografía dixital á gramática histórica.
- Axudas para a consolidación e estruturación de unidades de investigación competitivas do Sistema Universitario de Galicia
- ARGAMED. Prosa Literaria Galega Medieval
- Los personajes de la Materia de Bretaña. Estrategias de creación y evolución
R&D Projects (Member of the Research Team)
- Promoción e apoio á investigación no Centro de Investigacións Lingüísticas e Literarias Ramón Piñeiro
- Consolidación e estruturación. Rede de Estudos medievais interdisciplinares
- O cancioneiro dos xograres galegos (edición crítica e estudio, en formato impreso e electrónico)
- El mundo animal en la lírica románica: funcionamiento y significado poético
- O rei Don Denis e os trobadores da súa época
- La comparación en la lírica amorosa románica
- Digital Repository of European Poetry
- Consolidación e estruturación. Grupo de Referencia Competitiva (GRC) GI-1350 Románicas (Filoloxía, Literatura medieval)
- Primeros textos románicos
- Notas lingüísticas de Angelo Colocci
- El ‘exemplum’ en la lírica amorosa románica: funcionamiento y significado poético
- Canone letterario e lessico delle emozioni nel Medioevo europeo. Un network di strumenti on-line
Remarkable Publications
- Presentación – La trama del texto. Fuentes literarias y cultura escrita en la Edad Media y el Renacimiento
- La trama del texto. Fuentes literarias y cultura escrita en la Edad Media y el Renacimiento
- Retorno a la tensó de Arnaut (Catalan) y Alfonso X.
- De amor y primavera: el debate entre don Denis y Airas Nunez.
- Alfonso X y la autoría de Sinner, … vein quer[er] (B 477)
- Peregrinaciones y peregrinos en el imaginario literario medieval.
- Quel Tresor pour le ‘Tesoro’ castillan? Le ‘Livre dou Tresor’ en Espagne
- Les troubadours galégo-portugais et la dialectique du silence et du chant poétiques
- La lengua de la lírica gallego-portuguesa en el devenir de la tradición manuscrita.
- La cantiga de amor: entre tradición y recepción
- A tradición da canción de muller e a cantiga de amigo.
- Les clairs-obscurs des lais galégo-portugais. Circulation et réemploi des romans arthuriens
- El diálogo entre tradiciones. El giro del Libro del Tesoro castellano
- Cantares de amigos. Estudos en homenaxe a Mercedes Brea
- The ‘Matière de Bretagne’ in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth century.
- Orden y desorden en el cancionero gallego-portugués B
- La rima derivada: de los provenzales a los gallego-portugueses
- Il canzoniere del trovatore Roi Queimado
- Lancelot comme toile de fond d’Alphonse X?
- Don Afonso Lopez de Baian. Cantigas
- Quei che le mura empion di sogni. Lanzarote y la Dama del Lago en el norte de Italia
- Voces de mujer y mujeres con voz en las tradiciones hispánicas medievales
- A cantiga de amigo
- El dobre gallego-portugués o la estética de la simetría.
- The woman-song in the medieval lyric
PhD Supervision
- O cancioneiro de don Afonso Sanchez, edición e estudio
- O contratexto de tema amoroso na lírica románica (séculos XII-XIV)
- O cancioneiro do trobador Johan Soarez Somesso. Edición crítica e estudo
- La Historia Troyana Polimétrica: edición crítica, estudio y glosario
- Il Jugement d’amours. Studio introduttivo, testo critico e note
- Le cantigas di don Denis, il re-poeta
- O cancioneiro de Gil Perez Conde. Edición e estudo
- Merlín en Geoffrey de Monmouth y en los romans franceses en prosa del siglo XIII
- Le poesie del trovatore Perdigo. Saggio di edizione critica
- Il sistema dei generi nella poesia lirica romanza medievale
- Equivocatio et contrafactum. Ricerche sulla lirica satirica galego-portoghese
- Eledus et Serene. Edizione interpretativa, studio e commento
- As Humanidades digitais e a súa aplicação à variação lingüística na lírica galego-portuguesa
- A tradución galega do Liber de medicina equorum de Jordanus Ruffus. Edición crítica
- A nobreza na poesía lírica galego-portuguesa
- A mediación na lírica galego-portuguesa. Edición e anotación das rúbricas explicativas