Distinguished Professor (UCSB) - Professor Honoris Causa (University of Alicante, Spain)
Center for Catalan Studies (UCSB), Director - eHumanista, Director - Barandiarán Chair of Basque Studies (UCSB)
4219 Phelps Hall
Education
Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley (1997); Ph.D. Classics, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain (1993); M.A. Renaissance Studies, Université d´Ottawa, Canada (1993); B.A. in Classics , Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1989; 5-year B.A.); B.A. in Spanish Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1989; 5-year B.A.)
Bio
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
Appointments
––– Corresponding member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (Royal Academy of Good Letters)
––– Professor Honoris Causa from the University of Alicante (Spain)
––– Founder and editor (1999) of the journal eHumanista
––– Founder and editor of the journal Mirabilia/MedTrans
––– Director of the Peter Lang Catalan Studies in Culture and Linguistics
––– Co-founder and director of the Center for Catalan Studies (USCB)
––– Miguel de Barandiarán Endowed Chair in Basque Studies (UCSB)
Awards
––– 2000 Diputación de Sevilla Award (Spain) for his Teoría de la historia y teoría política en el siglo XVI
––– 2010 Scripta Humanistica Award (US) for his L’humanisme a la Corona d´Aragò (en el context hispànic i europeu) (with J. Butinyà)
––– 2017 Prêmio de Pesquisa Angelicum (Brazil) for his Herejía, Inquisición y leyenda negra en el siglo XVII
––– 2017 Premio Internazionale Francesco Saverio Nitti International per il Mediterraneo (Italy) for his study and translation of Llull´s Vita coaetanea / A Contemorary Life.
––– Grants from: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); American Philosophical Society; Del Amo Foundation (Spain); Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain); Fundação Calouste-Gulbenkian (Portugal), among others
Publications
He is the author of over 60 monographs and critical editions and more than 200 scholarly articles. His books include the following (selected list):
- Classical and Vernacular Humanism (14th-17th c.):
––– La evolución genérica de la ficción sentimental (London: Támesis, 2001)
––– Glosa las Trezientas del famoso poeta Juan de Mena (Madrid: Polifemo, 2015) (with Julian Weiss)
––– Boncompagno da Signa, El Tratado del amor carnal o Rueda de Venus. Motivos literarios en la tradición sentimental y celestinesca (ss. XIII-XVI) (Pamplona: Eunsa, 2002)
––– L´Humanisme a la Corona d´Aragó (en el context hispànic i europeu) (with. J. Butinyà) (Potomac, Maryland: Scrita Humanistica, 2011)
––– Literatura moral y materia amorosa en Inglaterra y la Península Ibérica (siglos XIV-XV) with Alvar & Faccon), San Millán de la Cogolla: Cilengua, 2018)
- Rhetorical Theory, Ars dictaminis:
––– Teoría de la historia y teoría política en el siglo XVI (Alcalá de Henares: UP, 2000)
––– Boncompagno da Signa. La rueda del amor. Los males de la vejez y la senectud. La amistad (Madrid: Gredos, 2005)
––– Modernidad y Sociedad Civil. La retórica de Boncompagno da Signa y el nacimiento de la sociedad civil (València: Tirant lo Blanch, 2022)
- Religious History and Inquisition (Middle Ages through 18th c.):
––– Asistencia a pobres y piedad laica en la Corona de Aragón en los siglos XIII-XV (Zaragoza: UP, 2004)
––– Los chuetas y la Inquisición mallorquina. Nuevos documentos (México: Publications of eHumanista, 2012)
––– La persecución económica de los chuetas: religión y economía en Mallorca en los siglos XVI y XVII (Palma de Mallorca: Lleonard Muntaner, 2013)
––– Herejía, inquisición y leyenda negra en el siglo XVII; (James Salgado, ‘el hereje’: Vida y obra de un exsacerdote español) (Barcelona: Calambur, 2016)
––– Conquistar o convencer. De Llull a Cisneros en la conversión del otro (Zaragoza: Pórtico, 2021)
- Translatlantic History and Literature (Latin American Colonial History and Literature):
––– Cartas desde México y Guatemala (1540-1635). El proceso Díaz de la Reguera (Berkeley, Cáceres: The Bancroft Library, Universidad de Extremadura, 2003)
–––Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o la búsqueda de identidad (Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2015)
––– Francisco de Acevedo. El pregonero de Dios y patriarca de los pobres (with S. Poot Herrera) (Madrid: Palas Atenea, 2019)
––– Memorias de Libros. Censura y comercio de libros en Nueva España. Siglo XVII (València: Tirant lo Blanch, 2023)
- Ramon Llull (Medieval Scholastic Philosophy):
––– Ramon Llull. Book of the Order of Chivalry (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015)
––– Ramon Llull. Libro del hombre / Liber de homine (Madrid: Atenea, 2016)
––– Ramon Llull Vita coaetanea / A Contemporary Life (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017)
––– Enchiridion Theologicum Lullianum (J. Gayà Estelrich ed.) (VV.AA.) (Madrid: BAC, 2024)
- Medieval Classics of the Crown of Aragon and Translations of Catalan Lit.:
–––The Dream of Bernat Metge (with. E. Lagresa) (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014)
––– Bernat Metge. Book of Fortune and Prudence (with V. Martines) (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013)
––– The Story of Leander and Hero by Joan Roís de Corella (with J.L. Martos) (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016)
––– Antonio de Capmany y de Monpalau. Filosofía de la Elocuencia (Madrid: Atenea, 2014)
––– Joan Fuster. Aphorisms (New York: Peter Lang, 2024)
––– Salvador Espriu. The Cemetery, The Hours, & Mrs Death (with A. Kaufman) (New York: Rain Mountain Press, 2026)
- Spanish Black Legend (16th-17th-c. Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda):
––– Bernardino de Mendoza (with A. Gómez Moreno) (Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 2008)
––– Carlos Coloma de Saa (Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 2010)
––– La porfía: identidad nacional y personal en Lope de Vega (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2013)
- Early Modern Drama (16th-17th c. Latin and Vernacular Theater): editions and studies of
––– Calderón de la Barca’s El Sacro Pernaso (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2006)
––– Lope de Vega’s Porfiar hasta morir (Pamplona: Eunsa, 2004)
––– Lope de Vega´s Los españoles en Flandes (Barcelona: ProLope, 2014)
––– Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez’s El acierto en el engaño y robador de su honra (Pamplona: Eunsa, 1998)
––– Pierre de Provenza’s comedia burlesca El amor más verdadero. Durandarte y Belerma (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2002)
––– Pérez Petreyo’s Latin comedy Los Supuestos (ca. 1540) (Pamplona: Eunsa, 2000);
––– Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón’s Los desagravios de Cristo (Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, 2013)
––– Adiciones al corpus dramático español del siglo XVI. La Comedia de la invención de la sortija, partes I y II (Monforte de Lemos, 1594) (with M. Zugasti) (Pamplona: Eunsa, 2016)
––– Agustín de Moreto’s Industrias contra finezas (with R. Massanet) (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2021)
- Electronic Databases (Medieval Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese MSS and texts). Electronic editions of medieval Spanish manuscripts, co-compiler of
––– PhiloBiblon (BETA) (Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1999, CD-Rom)
––– ADMYTE (Madrid: Micronet, 1999, CD-Rom)
––– La Fernán Núñez Collection de la Bancroft Library, Berkeley (London: Queen Mary, 200)
––– Web-based PhiloBiblon / BETA
- Don Quixote:
––– Don Quijote o la paradoja del ser (Barcelona, Calambur, 2019)
––– Mesianismo, epifanía y resurrección en el Quijote: la tolerancia de la contradicción (Madrid: Polifemo, 2016)
- Editor and Co-editor of numerous collections of essays on Medieval, Renaissance, and Contemporary Romance Literatures, History, and Culture, such as Estudios galegos medievais (Santa Barbara: Center for Galician Studies, 2000), From Stateless Nations to Postnational Spain (Boulder, Colorado: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2002), Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal. Studies in Honor of Arthur L-F. Askins (Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer Inc., 2006), Vir Bonus Dicendi Peritus: Studies in Honor of Charles B. Faulhaber (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2014), Las 'Obras de burlas' del Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo (Santa Barbara: Publications of eHumanista, 2015), Re-Imagining Don Quixote (Film, Image and Mind) (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2017), Chivalry, the Mediterranean, and the Crown of Aragon (Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2018), Second and Third Language Acquisition in Catalan-Speaking Regions (Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2019), History of Catalonia and Its Implication for Contemporary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict (Hersey: IGI, 2021), Sor Juana en la rueda voluble del tiempo (México: Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2024), among many others.
- Editor and Co-editor of numerous collections of essays on Education and the Humanities, including: Interdisciplinary Responses to Educational Challenges (Hersey: IGI Global, 2026); Challenges of Educational Innovation in Contemporary Society (with C. Mateo-Guillén) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2025); Transformations in Digital Learning and Educational Technologies (with C. Mateo-Guillén) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2025); Political Theory, History, and Modern Practice for the Common Good (with V. Martines) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2025); Educational Innovation to Address Complex Societal Challenges (with J. Roda & S. Mengual) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2024); Improving Mental Health and Well-Being through Bibliotherapy (with V. Martines & V. Orazi) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2024); Managing Pandemic Isolation with Literature and Therapy (with V. Martines & V. Orazi) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2023), and Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19 (with V. Martines) (Hersey: IGI Global, 2021), among others
Specialization
Classics; Medieval and Early Modern Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese Literatures; Early Modern Theater; Latin, Greek, and Vernacular Humanism; Medieval and Early Modern European History and Colonial American History; History of Religious Ideas; Mediterranean Studies