Albert Lloret

Bio

Albert Lloret is an associate professor of Spanish and Catalan specializing in the literatures of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. He holds a B.A. in Catalan Philology and a B.A. in Spanish Philology, both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, an M.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from the Universitat de Girona, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Johns Hopkins University. 

He joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an assistant professor in 2011 and received tenure and promotion in 2016. He serves as director of the graduate program in Hispanic Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics (2025-2026), having previously served in that position (2015-2018). He has also directed the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Unit (2018-2021). Lloret has held visiting appointments at the University of Arkansas, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, and the  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Lloret’s first book, Printing Ausiàs March: Material Culture and Renaissance Poetics (Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, 2013), studies the ways in which sixteenth-century readers of medieval Valencian author Ausiàs March appropriated his poetry through printed editions and translations. Lloret is also a coauthor of The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500: Translation, Imitation, and Literacy (Tamesis/Boydell & Brewer, 2018), the first comprehensive survey of the reception of the Classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters. He is working on two book-length projects. One examines the spatiality of late medieval and early modern Iberian lyric poetry. His second book project explores the political uses of printing medieval Catalan works in Habsburg Spain.

Lloret has guest-edited journal issues for Translation Review (on Catalan Literature and Translation, 2013), Digital Philology (on Medieval Iberian Texts and the Digital Archive, 2014), Calíope (on Poetry and Materiality, in collaboration with Miguel Martínez, 2018), and MLN (on New Spatialities in Catalan Studies, in collaboration with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer, 2025). His work has also appeared, or is forthcoming, in venues such as Hispanic Review, Ecdotica, Viator, and Catalan Review, among others. You can read my CV here.

Lloret is a long-standing member of a research team based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, dedicated to the study of the late medieval and early modern reception of classical works in the Crown of Aragon, whose projects have been repeatedly funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of the Spanish Government (2012-2014, 2015-2018, 2020-2024, 2024-2027). He is also a member of two additional research projects funded by the Spanish government, respectively, on the printing of Catalan and Castilian chivalric literature (2025-2028) and the edition of the works of Lope de Vega (2025-2027). He collaborated with Michael Papio on the edition and translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s gazetteer De montibus, as co-PI of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (2015-2017).

In recent years, Lloret has taught graduate seminars on poetry and the production of space, medieval and early modern Iberian lyric, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and early modern reimaginations of medieval texts. At the undergraduate level, he has offered surveys of medieval and early modern Iberian literatures, Spanish culture, as well as a special topics course on music, lyrics and society.

Lloret serves as a general editor of the open-access journal Translat Library (2019- ) and as the Vice-President of the North American Catalan Society (2024-2028). He served as founding and managing editor of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (2010-2019).