Francisco García Jurado
Francisco García Jurado is a doctor in Classical Philology with an extraordinary award from the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he also received a Research Staff Training scholarship. He had scientific stays at the Universities of Amsterdam and Bologna, and has been part of an advanced research team at the Real Colegio Complutense, attached to Harvard University. He also obtained an assistant position at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he later won another as professor of Latin Philology. He is currently a university professor, with the academic profile of "Historiography of Latin Literature", which constitutes one of his main lines of research, together with studies on "Tradition and Classical Reception" and those related to the humanistic and essay reading of Aulo Gelio's Attic Nights. Among his most relevant publications are: Teoría de la Tradición Clásica (Mexico, UNAM, 2016) and Diccionario Hispánico de la Tradición y Recepción Clásica (Madrid, Guillermo Escolar, 2021), a work of which he has been scientific director. Currently, he is head investigator of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation: “El viaje de las ideas literarias Historiografía comparada de las Literaturas Clásicas (ámbitos hispano y luso 1782-1950): transferencias culturales entre Europa y América” (HCLC). Reference: PID2021-122634NB-I00.