Antonio Cortijo Ocaña is a prof. of medieval and early modern culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Author of over 50 monographs and more than 150 articles, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña analyzes in his research the ideological structures and tensions that have forged the Modern Period across the Atlantic and across the languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. He deals with issues such as nation building, power and ideology, religion and economy in the late medieval through 18th centuries, as well as with the larger topic of the relevance of Humanism in the creation of the modern nations.
Vicent Martines is Professor at the University of Alicante. He is the Director of ISIC-IVITRA and of the Seu Universitaria La Nucía (University of Alicante). He is a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. He is the Co-director of the Centre Internacional d’Investigació d’Estudis Ibèrics / Internationales Institüt für Iberische Studien (Universitat d’Alacant / Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg) and of the Center for Catalan Studies (UCSB). He is chief editor of Series IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, John Benjamin (Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Philadelphia, USA) and co-editor of eHumanista/IVITRA. He also co-directs Mirabilia/MedTrans and Studia Iberica et Americana. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, Director of the "Filología Catalana" & "Clásicos Valencianos" series of the Editorial Atenea-Centro de Lingüística Aplicada and the “European and Mediterranean Classics” series of Peter Lang International Publishing Company. He is the director of the "Textes catalanes modernes" series of the Classiques Garnier (Paris, France) and of the "Textes catalans du Moyen Âge" series of the Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge (Paris, France). He has received numerous awards (Institut d´Estudis Catalans, 1988; Premi d´Investigació Historicocultural Ibn Al-Abbar, Generalitat Valenciana, Ajuntament d´Onda, 1990; Premio de Ensayo de Catalán, Gallego y Vasco de la Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Fundació “La Caixa”, 1993). He is the author of over 200 publications, among which we could mention Multilingual Joan Roís de Corella. The Relevance of a Fisteenth-Century Classic of the Crown of Aragon (2013), Bernat Metge, The Book of Fortune and Prudence (2013), Lo regiment de la cosa pública en el Dotzé del (2009), etc.