Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bibliotherapy

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña is a prof. of medieval and early modern culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Author of over 50 monographs and more than 150 articles, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña 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. Vicent 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 Ibèrics / 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). 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 currently 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 research project "Glocal Perspectives in Iberian Studies". Her research interests focus on the study of medieval and contemporary Spanish and Catalan literature and on the Italian translation of Spanish and Catalan literature.