Victoria Cirlot

Victoria Cirlot Valenzuela (born 1955), daughter of poet Juan Eduardo Cirlot, is a Spanish scholar of medieval culture and literature, philologist, translator and editor. She is a tenured professor of medieval literature and comparative literature at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona,[1] Celtic religion professor at the University of Barcelona, and professor of symbology at the Universitat Ramon Llull in the same city. She is co-editor of the collection El Árbol del Paraíso of Editorial Siruela (Madrid).[2] She is also a founding member of the Institut Universitari de Cultura and coordinator of the research team of the Biblioteca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas. Cirlot is a member of the Institut Carl Gustav Jung Barcelona. Some of her fields are the study of mysticism, symbology and the history of religions, as well as aesthetics of reception.[3][4]

Cirlot was born in Barcelona to the poet Juan Eduardo Cirlot, whose book A Dictionary of Symbols she edited, and which contains an epilogue by her. Her sister is fellow professor Lourdes Cirlot.[5]

Works

  • Antología de textos de literaturas románicas (with A.M. Mussons AM, G. Oliver and I. Riquer)
  • Figuras del Destino. Mitos y símbolos de la Europa Medieval
  • Les cançons de l'amor de lluny de Jaufré Rudel
  • Vidas y visiones de Hildegard von Bingen
  • Hildegard von Bingen y la tradición visionaria de Occidente
  • La mirada interior: escritoras místicas y visionarias en la Edad Media (with Blanca Garí)
  • Mística y creación en el siglo XX (with Amador Vega)
  • Cirlot en Vallcarca
  • La visión abierta. Del mito del Grial al Surrealismo

References

  1. ^ "UPF website". Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
  2. ^ Siruela
  3. ^ "Institut Jung de Barcelona". Archived from the original on 2012-12-27. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
  4. ^ "Cirlot's academic CV at Biblioteca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas". Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  5. ^ UCM.es



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