Vicent Martines PeresVicent Martines is a Professor at the University of Alicante. He is a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, IULMA, IIFV. He is the Co-director of the Centre Internacional d'Investigació d'Estudis Ibèics / Internationales Institüt für Iberische Studien (Universitat d'Alacant / Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg). He is the chief editor of Series IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, John Benjamin (Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Philadelphia, USA) and co-editor of eHumanista/IVITRA. He also co-directs Mirabilia/MedTrans. In addition, he is the director of the "Textes catalanes modernes" series of the Classiques Garnier (Paris, France) and of the "Textes catalans du Moyen Âge" series of the Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge (Paris, France). He has received the following awards: Rei En Pere el Catòlic d´Investigació (Institut d´Estudis Catalans, 1988), Premi d´Investigació Historicocultural Ibn Al-Abbar (Generalitat Valenciana, Ajuntament d´Onda, 1990), and the Premio de Ensayo de Catalán, Gallego y Vasco de la Fundación Ortega y Gasset (Fundació "La Caixa", 1993). He is the author of over 260 publications, for example, published these 3 published by IGI-Global (he acting as coeditor): History of Catalonia and Its Implications for Contemporary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict (Ed. with A. Cortijo, 2021), Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19 (Ed. with A. Cortijo), Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy (Ed. with A. Cortijo & V. Orazi, 2023). Read More Read Less