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Pablo Acosta-García, PhD

Current Postions


Research

October 2019-October 2021: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Heinrich-Heine-Universität-Düsseldorf (Germany), Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, H2020-MSCA-IF-2018). Project: Late Medieval Visionary Women’s Impact in Early Modern Castilian Spiritual Tradition (Grant Agreement 842094). Supervisor: Dr. Eva Schlotheuber.

2020-2024: Member of the Project ‘Catálogo de santas vivas (1400-1550): hacia un corpus completo de un modelo hagiográfico femenino’ (PID2019-104237GB-I00).

2016-2019: Member of the Project ‘La conformación de la autoridad femenina en Castilla, ss. XV-XVI’ (FFI2015-63625-C2-2-P).

2016-2019: Member of the Project ‘Literatura i representació durant la llarga Edat Mitjana (LiREM)’, Grup de Recerca singular de l’AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2017 SGR 1514). 

2016: Seal of Excellence by the European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016).

2009-2014: Researcher at ‘Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas Research Group’ (2014 SGR 1631), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

2013: Contracted Support Researcher for the ‘Pla de doctorats industrials’ [=‘Industrial Ph.D. Plan’, Generalitat de Catalunya], Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Education

2009     PhD. Dissertation: Poética de la visibilidad en el Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete = Poetics of Visibility in Le Mirouer des simples ames by Marguerite Porete, Open Access: http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/7448, ISBN: 978-84-6927-3197.

Supervisor: Dr. Victoria Cirlot. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Qualification: Excellent cum laude.

2007     Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in the Ph.D. Program “Estudis de Llengües i literatures comparades a l’ambit Romanic” [=“Comparative Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures”], Facultat de Filologia Romànica, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).

2004    Bachelor in Hispanic Philology, Universidad de La Laguna (Spain).

2001     Erasmus Student, Universitá Amedeo Avogadro degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Italy).

Selected Publications

Books

Forthcoming    Liturgy and Revelation in the Book of the Conhorte by the Abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), Leiden, Brill, 2022.

2019    [co-edited with D. Rangel and D. Nieto], Touching, Devotional Practices and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages, London, Palgrave-Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26029-3. ISBN 978-3-030-26029-3.

2014    Edition and translation from the original Latin: Ángela de Foligno, Libro de la experiencia, Madrid, Siruela, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-15937-08-1. http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?id_libro=2412

2009    Poética de la visibilidad en el Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete [online]; supervisor, Prof. Victoria Cirlot, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Humanities Department, Open Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7448. ISBN 978-84-6927-3197.

Articles and Book Chapters

 

2021    

“El cancionero revelado de la abadesa franciscana Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534). Edición y comentario", en Studia aurea. Revista de Literatura española y Teoría literaria del Renacimiento, vol. 15 (2021). Open Access.

“Radical Succession: Hagiography, Reform, and Franciscan Identity in the Convent of the Abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534)”, Religions (MDPI) 12(3), 223. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030223. ISSN 2077-1444.

“‘En viva sangre bañadas’: Caterina da Siena y las vidas de María de Ajofrín, Juana de la Cruz, María de Santo Domingo y otras santas vivas castellanas”, in Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà, XXXIII, 143-172. Open Access. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4580499. ISSN, 18243789, 11286768.

 

2020    

“Women Prophets for a New World: Angela of Foligno, ‘Living Saints’, and the Religious Reform Movement in Cardinal Cisneros’ Castile”, in Exemplarity and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, ed. M. Morrás, R. Sanmartín and K. Yonsoo, Leiden, Brill, 136-162. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438446. ISBN 978-90-04-28045-8.

“Santas y marcadas: itinerarios de lectura modélicos en la obra de las místicas bajomedievales impresas por Cisneros” [=“Marked Holy Women: Exemplary Reading Itineraries in the Late Medieval Women Mystics’ Works Printed by Cisneros”], in Hispania Sacra LXXII (145), 67-80. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3989/hs.2020.011. ISSN 0018-215X; eISSN 1988-4265.

 “On Manuscripts, Prints and Blessed Transformations: Caterina da Siena’s Legenda maior as a Model of Sainthood in Premodern Castile”, in Religions (MDPI) 11 (1), 33; Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11010033. ISSN 18243789, 11286768.

 

2019    

“A Clash of Theories: Discussing Late Medieval Devotional Perception”, in Touching, Devotional Practices and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages, London, Palgrave- Macmillan, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26029-3_1. ISBN 978-3-030-26029-3

“‘Sicce et sine omni sapore’. Commenti su alcune versioni catalane e castigliane del Liber Lelle”, in Il libro di Angela da Foligno e le sue traduzioni, A. Bartolomei Romagnoli and M. Vedova (eds.), Spoleto, CISAM, 33-50. ISBN 978-88-6809-261-0.

“Palabra matriz y escritura poética: José Ángel Valente y la fable mística” (= “Womb Word and Poetic Writing: José Ángel Valente and the Mystic fable”), Revista Chilena de Literatura 99, 121-142. Open Access. ISSN: 0718-2295.

 

2018    

Scientific Introduction: “Manuscrito 473 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya (compilación de obras espirituales)”, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Virtual Exhibition ‘PAISAJES ESPIRITUALES’ (= SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPES). Open Access.

 

2017    

[Co-authored with Anna Serra], “Apophatic Mountains: Poetics of Image in Marguerite Porete and John of the Cross”, in Viator 48/1 (Spring 2017), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.115322. ISSN: 0083-5897.

“‘Notez bien, bonnes pucelles’: A Complete Transcription of the French and Continental Latin Annotations of The Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete”, in Sacris Erudiri 56/1 (December 2017), 347-392. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SE.5.114776.ISSN: 0771-7776; eISSN: 2295-9025.

“Blood and Pleasure in Christ: Private Devotion and Mystical Experience in Late Medieval Umbria”, in Carme Muntaner et al. (eds.), On Pleasure, Fear, Desire and Pain: Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 11-32. ISBN (10): 1-5275-0346-1; ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-0346-5.

 

2015    

“Abrazar desnuda la cruz de Cristo: una introducción al Libro de la experiencia de Angela da Foligno”, en Francesc d’Assís a Catalunya, 800 anys, Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 121-142. ISBN 978-84-943641-3-6.

Devotio dolorosa: Visiones de María en el Memoriale de Angela da Foligno”, en Virgo Dolorosa. Actas, 705-718, Sevilla, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. ISSN 978-84-608-3586-8.

 

2014    

“Forgotten marginalia and French and Latin Manuscript Tradition in Le Mirouer des simples ames by Marguerite Porete”, in Anuario de estudios medievales, Vol. 44, nº1 (June 2014), 413-431. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2014.44.1.13. ISSN: 066-5061; eISSN: 1988-4230.

“Follow the Light: Lumen Gloriae and Visio Dei in the Works of Dante Alighieri and Marguerite dicta Porete”, in Eikón Imago,Vol. 3, n. 2, 51-76. Open Access. ISSN 2254-8718.

 

2013    

“Shouting at the Angels: Visual Experience in Angela da Foligno’s Memoriale”, in Mirabilia, Vol. 2, nº17 (2013), 115-139. Open Access. ISSN: 1676-5818.

“La alegoría de Ezequiel y el Espejo: en pos de la visibilidad del Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete”, in Aproximaciones y revisiones medievales. Historia, lengua y literatura, C. Company et al (eds.), Méjico DF, Universidad Autónoma de Méjico - El Colegio de Méjico, 2014, 641-658. ISBN: 978-607-462-451-9.

 

2012    

“Images for Deification: Visual Literacy in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls”, en A. Conner Farris y F. Pattenden (eds.), Exploring Visual Literacies Inside, Outside and Through the Frame, Leiden, Brill, 2012, 123-132. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848881129_014. ISBN: 978-1-84888-112-9.

“Come insegnare a non vedere Dio: Visibilitá e negazione della imagine nella opera di Marguerite dicta Porete (m. 1310)”, in La visione, F. Zambon (ed.), Collana Viridarium, Venezia, Medusa, 107-130. ISBN 978-88-7698-245-3.

“Los marginalia de Le Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete: hacia una historia de la lectura del manuscrito de Chantilly”, in Critica del testo: Rivista del Dipartamento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali, Università di Roma-Sapienza, XV/1, 2012, 245-269. ISSN 1127-1140; ISBN 978-88-8334-921-8; eISBN 978-88-8334-922-5.

“La meva biblioteca sobre simbologia religiosa”, in Dialogal. Quaderns de l’Associació UNESCO per al Diàleg Interreligiós, 41/any XI, 2012. ISSN 1579-5179.

 

2010    

“Ermeneutica dell’imagine ne Le Mirouer des simples ames di Marguerite Porete: Il caso dell’aquila di Ezechiele”, in Atti del Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA), Venezia, nº 168, 219-254. ISSN 039-1336.

“Lumen Dantis et Lumen Margaretae: el imaginario compartido por Dante Alighieri y Marguerite dicta Porete”, in Tenzone,Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, nº11, 119-155. Open Access. ISSN 1576-9216.

 

2008    

“Destrucción material y tradición iconográfica: por la cultura visual del Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete” = “Material Destruction and Iconographic Tradition: Towards the Visual Culture of Mirouer des simples ames by Marguerite Porete”, in Actas del IV Simposio Internacional de Jóvenes Medievalistas, J. F. Jiménez alcázar et al, Lorca, 65-76. Open Access. ISBN 978-84-8371-801-8.

“Poética de la visibilidad del Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete” = “Poetics of Visibility in Mirouer des simples ames by Marguerite Porete”, in Philía. Revista de la Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas, 2 (1), 172-191. ISSN 1888-2560.

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