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

Links: Teaching schedule

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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.

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