My research career has been fully international well before defending my PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2012),
as attested by my formative stages in London (2005 and 2008), Paris (2006), Amsterdam (2008-2009) and Helsinki (2010). This
geographical itinerary mirrors the meandering path of my intellectual curiosity, which has led me from the realm of medieval
art to that of critical theory, visual studies, cultural history and comparative literature. In this regard, even if I consider
myself mostly as a manuscript scholar, I feel that my transdisciplinary methodology and vast range of interests have earned
me a singular and authoritative position at the juncture of the medieval art historical and literary fields, beyond the realm
of Hispanic studies. Proof of that is my regular invitation to scientific events all over Europe and USA (Courtauld Institute
of Art, King’s College London, University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Deutsches
Historisches Institut – Paris, Columbia University, Universität Wien, Universidade de Lisboa – Classica, Universidade do Porto,
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Casa de Velázquez, CCSH-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Universitat Rovira i Virgili),
my participation in international research projects, as well as my variegated papers in 22 top academic journals (Medieval
Encounters, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal) and edited volumes
published by Brill, Taylor & Francis, Wiley-Blackwell or Brepols. In addition to it, I have been awarded with fellowships
and grants by the Warburg Institute, St John’s College – Cambridge, Museo del Prado, Fondazione Ezio Franceschini and the
Accademia de Danimarca in Rome, which have allowed me to delve into the analysis of the Trojan legend in the Middle Ages and
the medieval reception of Classical culture, the intricacies of Iberian kingship and queenship, or the patronage of Castilian
aristocrats in Humanist circles in Italy. However, it is the bulk of research carried out for my dissertation—devoted to the
study of the books illuminated for the kings and queens of Castile after the death of Alfonso X (1284-1369)—that may be regarded
as the core of my production. Still unpublished, it has acquired nonetheless a canonical status and has become the source
for three forthcoming monographs (Brill, UGR, La Ergástula) and issued articles that offer groundbreaking approaches to the
Alfonsine historiographical enterprise, to the scrutiny of peculiar dynamics of book production and consumption in multi-confessional
Iberia and the hybridized courtly culture created across the Castilian-Grenadine frontier.
Before being awarded with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, I was appointed Assistant
Professor of the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (2017-2021), where I was able
to undertake a project that focused on the emergence and consolidation of the illustrated history book after 1250 in Iberia
and Italy. Instrumental in the creation of this more ambitious geographical, chronological and conceptual framework has also
been the sustained collaboration with the ERC Advanced project ‘The Values of French’ (King’s College London) and, above all,
the dialogue with my colleagues at the Centre for Medieval Literature (since 2014), an institution to which I remain affiliated
and where I have also been promoted to Senior Researcher. All these initiatives, together with the creation of a long-term
partnership with the Davids Samling (Copenhagen) around the art and literature of the Silk Roads, evince not only my individual
leadership and the potential of my future research, but also my remarkable capacity for teamwork and mentoring of young researchers.
In this regard, special mention deserves my participation as Leader of the USC team in the Marie Slodowska Curie Action –
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