Department of Spanish & Portuguese : UC, Berkeley 

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Professor, UCBerkeley (2008- )

Associate Professor, UCBerkeley (2002-2008)

Professeur Invité, École Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Summer 2006)

Profesor Titular, Universidad de Salamanca (1995-2004)

Professeur Invité, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle (Fall 2001)

Professeur Invité, Université de Montpellier III, Paul Valéry (Spring 2001)

Visiting Professor, Emory University, Atlanta (Fall 2000)

Visiting Professor (Erasmus), Szegedy Tudomanyegyetem, Szeged, Hungary (Spring 1999) 

Maître assistant - lecteur, École Normale Supérieure (1992-1993)

_{SOME PUBLICATIONS}

Books

• El Debate sobre la Caballería en el siglo XV (Valladolid, 1996)
• (ed.) Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Amadís de Gaula (Madrid, 1997) 
• Guía para el estudio de la literatura románica medieval (Salamanca, 1998)
• Castigos para celosos, consejos para juglares (Madrid, 1999)
• Daurel y Betón, cantar de gesta occitano del siglo XIII (Valladolid, 2000)
• with Pedro Cátedra, Creación y difusión del Baladro del Sabio Merlín (Salamanca, 2001)
• with Carlos Heusch, La caballería castellana, textos y contextos (Montpellier, 2001)
• Fotografías que no he hecho (Salamanca, 2004)
• with Josef Fleckenstein, La caballería y el mundo caballeresco ("Invención y consecuencias de la caballería") (Madrid, 2005)
• with José Rabasa, Examining the Heretical Thought (forthcoming, UC Berkeley 2006) 
• Poética del orden (forthcoming, Madrid, 2008)
• The creation of a social category (forthcoming, UPenn Press 2008) 

Books I am currently working on

• with Jerry Craddock, Alfonso X y la caballería (forthcoming in ICCL- CECE, 2007) 
• The Poetics of Vernacular Law 
• The Desire of Glossing 

My last articles and participations in courses, conferences, keynote speeches, etc., have treated these subjects: popular literature as minor literature in the romance languages; the discourse on peace in the Middle Ages (Florence, Burgundy, Castile); modes of regulating institutions in the Middle Ages (Castile, Catalonia, England, France); photography; illuminated manuscripts (mostly legal ones); history of the book and history of reading (romance languages and latin); chivalry; literary theory; glossing and commenting in the Middle Ages; the works of Juan de Mena, Garcilaso, Fernando de Herrera and Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas; Don Quixote; Celestina; etc.

Societies. I am the Vicepresident of the Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas; I also co-direct, with Prof. José Rabasa, Semmycolon (Seminar of Medieval, Early Modern, and Colonial Studies). I am a member of several international scholarly societies. I am also a member of several research groups in Spain, France, Germany and the USA.

Spanish is my vernacular language. My second languages are Catalan and French. After them come in the list Italian, Provençal, several medieval languages and the classical languages. I still feel the necessity of studying languages.

I was born in Valladolid (Spain) in 1965. I have studied at the Universities of Valladolid, Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and Salamanca. In 1995, I submitted and publicly defended my PhD which obtained the highest grade and the university extraordinary award. In december 1995 I was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca. In 2002 I decided to quit Salamanca to come to Berkeley, a situation that became definitive in 2004.

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