Biography
Javier Burguillo holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology and is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Salamanca, where he is also a researcher in its Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (IEMYRhd) and coordinator of its master’s degree in Textual Heritage and Digital Humanities. In the course of his research career, he has specialized in the following research areas: (a) the cultural study of the historical dramas of Spanish Golden Age theatre (Juan de la Cueva, Lope de Vega, Vélez de Guevara, etc.), which was the subject of his doctoral thesis and several editions and research articles; (b) analyses of literary discourses and the textualization of religious conflict between Spain and England, as well as of British exile in Castile in the Modern Age. In the latter context, he was Principal Investigator of the project Discursos y prácticas editoriales antianglicanas en Castilla (1534-1640), funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Government of Spain (FFI2014-61226-JIN); (c) he has also specialized in Renaissance sacred epic and, in collaboration with Pedro M. Cátedra, has studied and critically edited the complete works of Juan Coloma
