Speaker: Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga, College of Philosophy and Letters in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM
Professor Gutierrez Trapaga obtained his PhD at Cambridge University in 2015. He is currently Associate Professor of Hispanic Letters at the College of Philosophy and Letters in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His research and publications focus on the formation of cycles in Castilian romances of chivalry; Cervantes's "Don Quijote," and the character of Merlin in Castilian literature (15th to 17th centuries). In addition to his specialization in Arthurian literature, chivalry romances and Medieval and Renaissance fiction he focuses on methods and techniques of investigation. Some of his latest publications are “From Amadís to Drug Trafficking: the Concept of Endriago Subjects in Light of the Endriago” Mitologías Hoy (2022); “Manuscritos y Humanismo en los libros de caballerías: la materialidad en la ficción” Revista de literatura medieval (2021); “Mouvance: un concepto para los procesos de reescritura cíclica” in Literatura medieval hispánica «Libros, lecturas y reescrituras» (2019); "Olvidado rey Gudú y los olvidos metodológicos de las fuentes de la novela de fantasía y la magia en la historia de la literatura española” (2019); “La prosa de ficción en algunas historias de la literatura recientes: valoración cuantitativa de fuentes, metodología y principios de investigación”. ehumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 37 (2017): 680-95; and his monograph Rewritings, Sequels, and Cycles in Sixteenth-Century Castilian Romances of Chivalry: ‘Aquella inacabable aventura’ (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2017).