Biography
Victor Lillo Castañ holds a PhD in Spanish Philology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has been a member of the Seminario de Poética del Renacimiento since 2014. His line of research focuses on the reception of Thomas More in Spain in the sixteenth century, sixteenth-century Spanish utopian dialogues and the social organization project that Vasco de Quiroga undertook in colonial Mexico in the 1530s, inspired by More’s Utopia. Since 2015, Victor Lillo has published several articles in scientific journals, as well as in popular cultural magazines. In 2018 he edited, together with María José Vega and Dámaris Montes, the collective volume Saberes inestables: estudios sobre expurgación y censura en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII in Iberoamericana Vervuert, and he has recently published his edition of the first Castilian translation of Utopía, entitled El buen estado de la república de Utopía (in translation by Vasco de Quiroga), in the collection Clásicos Políticos of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
