Albert Lloret

Associate Professor & Director of Spanish and Catalan Studies

Albert Lloret is an associate professor of Spanish and Catalan specializing in the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He serves as director of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UMass Amherst since the fall of 2018. Among his current projects and fothcoming publications are studies of space in lyric poetry, sixteenth-century engagements with medieval texts, the printing of chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanc, and (in collaboration with Michael Papio) a critical edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s geographical dictionary De montibus. He is one of the Founding Editors of Digital Philology and a General Editor of Translat Library 

Research Areas

• Medieval and Renaissance Iberian Literatures
• Textual Scholarship
• Translation Studies
• Digital Humanities

Publications

Books

• The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500: Translation, Imitation, and Literacy. Co-authored with Lluís Cabré, Alejandro Coroleu, Montserrat Ferrer, and Josep Pujol. Woodbridge: Tamesis (Boydell & Brewer), 2018.
• ​​​​Printing Ausiàs March: Material Culture and Renaissance Poetics. Madrid: Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, 2013.

Edited collections

• Poesía y materialidad. Co-edited with Miguel Martínez. Spec. issue of Calíope 23.2 (2018). 
• Digital Archives and Medieval Iberian Texts. Spec. issue of Digital Philology 3.1 (2014). 
• Catalan Literature and Translation. Spec. issue of Translation Review 87 (2013). 

Selected articles and book chapters

• "Un poema autògraf de Joan Fogassot." Translat Library 2.3 (2020).
• "Notes for a Critical Edition of the De montibus and a Few Observations on 'Rupibus ex dextris.'" Co-authored with Michael Papio. Studi sul Boccaccio 46 (2018): 13-53. 
• “The Letter and the Fading Voice in the Poetry of Ausiàs March.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 17.3 (2016): 255-69. 
• “Fortuna de los prólogos al cancionero de Ausiàs March.” Clàssics i moderns a la cultura literària catalana del Renaixement. Ed. Alejandro Coroleu. Lleida: Punctum, 2015. 135-58. 
• “Forging Renaissance Authorship: Petrarch and Ausiàs March.” Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Ed. Laura Delbrugge. Leiden: Brill, 2015. 253-76. 
• “Readers and Compilators of Ausiàs March’s Poetry in Barcelona (BNE, MS 2985).” Digital Philology 1.1 (2012): 139-59. 
• “La formazione di un canzoniere a stampa.” Ecdotica 5 (2008): 103-25. 

Courses Recently Taught

Spanish 312: Oral and Written Expression
Spanish 320: Literary Currents - Spain I
Spanish 497PS: Poetry and the Production of Space
Spanish 597ET: Editorial Theory for Digital Environments
Spanish 697DQ: Don Quixote
Spanish 697PS: Poetry and the Production of Space
Spanish 797R: Renaissance Readers, Medieval Texts