MARÍA JESÚS BOTANA VILAR
Email: mjvilar@ualg.pt
Brief CV: María Jesús Botana Vilar has earned a Degree in Galician-Portuguese Philology and Romance Philology from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she also attended doctoral courses in the field of Classical and Medieval Studies. She has a PhD in Literature from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve (2016). She has been lecturing at the University of Algarve since 2002 and is a lecturer at the Centre for Galician Studies.
Research Interests: She began her scientific research as a fellow researcher at the “Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (CIRP)” [Centre for Humanities Research], taking part in the project «Medieval Galicia», an edition of the “Cantigas de Loor” [songs of praise] by Afonso X (coordinated by Elvira Fidalgo and published in 2003). She also collaborated in the creation of literary voices for the publishing company Ir Indo and was a member of the Associaçom Obradoiro da Historia, having published in several numbers of its poetic newsletter Segrel. She is currently a member of CIAC – Centre for Research in Arts and Communication (University of Algarve).
Latest Publications:
Tradução português-castelhano: A rota do mosaico romano. O Sul da Hispânia (Andaluzia e Agarve), ed. Departamento de História, Arqueologia e Património da Universidade do Algarve, Equipa MOSUDHIS (Interreg IIIA), Universidades do Algarve e de Huelva, Museu histórico-municipal de Écija, Equipa lusofrancesa “Mosaicos do sul de Portugal”, 2008.
Botana Vilar, «El alma femenina en las Cantigas de Santa María», in Colloque International Le masque: une «inquiétante étrangeté» (29-30 septembre 2010), Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, 2013.
Botana Vilar, Campos sémicos e campos léxicos do sufrimento nas Cantigas de Santa María, in Revista do Centro de Estudos Galegos da Universidade do Algarve (dir. Pedro Ferré da Ponte), Xunta de Galicia e Universidade do Algarve, 2017 (no prelo).
Additional Information: Additional information: Maria Jesús Botana Vilar was a Fellow Researcher at Centro de Investigación para Artes e Humanidades ‘Ramón Piñeiro’ (CRPIH), in the editing project Cantigas de Loor [Songs of Praise] (2000 – 2002); a Research Fellow Professor from the Xunta de Galicia (2002-2008) at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (University of Algarve); and an AECI Fellow Researcher from the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de España (2003 – 2006).