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  MESA SANZ, JUAN FRANCISCO

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Mesa Sanz, Juan Francisco

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Current professional activity

Position:
CATEDRATICO/A DE UNIVERSIDAD
Dept.
Institutes:
I.U. INVESTIGACION ARQ. Y PATR. HIST.
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Academic background

  • Doctor en Filología Clásica.
    Universidad de Zaragoza. (14/09/1994)
  • Licenciado en Filología Clásica.
    Universidad de Zaragoza. (16/08/1989)

Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Alicante, specializing in Latin linguistics (Desire and the Subjunctive. Analysis of Optive Speech Acts in the Latin Language (1999)), the classical tradition - with theoretical studies on the definition of the discipline or specific studies on works such as Curial i Güelfa or authors such as Inca Garcilaso, Raúl Zurita or the classical imprint on the construction of German thought in the first half of the 19th century. His main line of research in the last decade has been linked to medieval Latin lexicography within ISIC-IVITRA (Excellence projects Prometeo/2009/042, ISIC/2012/022 and PrometeoII/2014/018), in his capacity as principal investigator of the Corpus Documentale Latinum Valencie (CODOLVA; VIGROB-145); This group has been recognized within the Corpus Documentale Latinum Hispaniarum Network of Excellence – CODOLHISP (FFI2016-81889-REDT) and can be accessed at the following web address: https://codolva.org/. It was the organizer of the VI International Congress of Medieval Hispanic Latin (La Nucía (Alicante), November 2013).

He also completed the first translation of Macrobius' Saturnalia into Spanish (Akal 2009). He has participated in museum projects for Roman Caesaraugusta (the Forum Museum, the Baths, the River Port, and the Theater), and was deputy director of the "Heroes and Ladies of La Alcudia (Elche)" project. These projects have resulted in scientific and educational publications—the Early Christian sarcophagus of Santa Engracia (Zaragoza); graphics and sounds in the Forum of Caesaraugusta; and the important Bronze from La Alcudia; manuals for the educational use of museums, etc. These projects also include the results of research carried out on the Disticha Catonis.
In recent years, he has pursued a line of research that involves applying the "narrative resilience" methodology to classical texts.