Antonio Cortijo Ocaña

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is the founding Director of the Center for Catalan Studies and the founding editor of the journal eHumanista (www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu). He has written over 50 books including six volumes of translations, plus critical editions of texts in Catalan, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, and monographs on Iberian Peninsula and colonial Latin-American culture, history, religion, and literature. He received the 2001 Diputación de Sevilla award for his Theory of History and Political Theory in 16th-century Spain; the 2011 Scripta Humanistica award for his Catalan Humanism (together with J. Butinyà); and the 2017 Francesco Saverio Nitti award for his translation of Ramon Llull´s A Contemporary Life (Vita coaetanea) from Latin into Spanish and English.