Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bibliotherapy

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He analyzes in his research the ideological structures and tensions that have forged the Modern Period across the Atlantic and across the languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. He deals with issues such as nation building, power and ideology, religion and economy in the late medieval through 18th centuries, as well as with the larger topic of the relevance of Humanism in the creation of the modern nations. He is the author of over 500 publications, founder of eHumanista, member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, member of over 50 editorial boards of journals, and recipient of Saverio Nitti Award (2017), Scripta Humanistica Award (2010), Diputación de Sevilla Award (2001). Vicent Martines is a Professor at the University of Alicante. He is PI of ISIC-IVITRA and a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, IEC, IULMA, IIFV. He is the Co-director of the Center For Catalan Studies (University of California at Santa Barbara [UCSB] / University of Alicante). He is the chief editor of Series IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, John Benjamin (Amsterdam/Philadelphia) and the eHumanista/IVITRA (UCSB) co-editor. He has received the following awards: Rei En Pere el Catòlic d´Investigació (IEC, 1988), Premi d´Investigació Ibn Al-Abbar (Generalitat Valenciana, Ajuntament d´Onda, 1990), Premio de Ensayo de Catalán, Gallego y Vasco de la Fundación Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 1993), and Premio Internazionale Francesco Saverio Nitti (Centro Internazionale di Ricerca Francesco Saverio Nitti per il Mediterraneo, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Napoli, Italy, 2023). He is the author of 280 publications. Veronica Orazi (Florence 1966), PhD in Ibero-Romance Philology, has taught at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the University of Bologna and the University of Siena. She is Full Professor of Spanish Literature and Catalan Language and Literature at the University of Turin. She is the Director of the Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, co-director of the series 'Bibliotheca Iberica' and a corresponding member of the “Institut d'Estudis Catalans” in Barcelona. She was awarded the Premi crítica Serra d'Or de catalanística (2000) and the Premio Città di Monselice per la traduzione letteraria - Sezione Leone Traverso (2002). In 2015 she received the Menció de la Delegació del Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya a Itàlia for her activity in promoting Catalan culture. Since 2015 he has directed the international project “Glocal Perspectives in Iberian Studies” and she actually directs the project “Identity Heritage and Cultural Memory. The elaboration of the past through the theatre of democratic Spain (1975 to the present)”. Her research interests focus on medieval and contemporary Spanish and Catalan literature and on the Italian translation of Spanish and Catalan literature