Ana Inés Aldazabal
Thesis title: Magic and Witchcraft in the Burgundian Literary Imagination
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
PhD in Medieval Studies, University of Edinburgh (2023-2026)
Provisional thesis title: "Magic and Witchcraft in the Burgundian Literary Imagination". Supervised by Dr. Fionnuala Sinclair and Prof. Julian Goodare.
Granted the Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship (2023-2026).
MA in Medieval Studies, Central European University (2020-2022)
MA dissertation on the emergence of witchcraft themes in French medieval literature. Supervised by Prof. Gábor Klaniczay.
Took an additional non-degree programme in Religious Studies.
Granted the 2022 CEU Religious Studies Best MA Thesis Award.
Undergraduate degree in Letters, University of Buenos Aires (2008-2016)
Research project on the medieval sources of Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Supervised by Prof. Susana Artal.
Member of a research team on the modern projections of medieval literature (2013-2016).
Teaching Assistant in an undergraduate seminar on Arthurian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day (2015) and in an extension course on the Middle Ages in cinema (2013-2016).
Research summary
Ana's current research focuses on the emergence of witchcraft themes in fifteenth-century Burgundian literary works and their mutual influences with religious and legal texts produced in the context of the first massive trials for witchcraft.
Current research interests
History of witchcraft, Old and Middle French literature, gender history, poetry translation.Past research interests
Arthuriana, Victorian poetry, comparative literature.Project activity
James Tait Black Prize reader, fiction (2024)
Current project grants
Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship (2023-2026)
Past project grants
Estímulo UBACyT research scholarship (University of Buenos Aires, 2013-2016)
Organiser
Argentinian Association for the Study of French and Francophone Literature. I Congreso Internacional y XXIX Jornadas Nacionales de la Asociación Argentina de Literatura Francesa y Francófona. Assistant to the Organisation Committee. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016, May 12-14).
Department of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires. XXI Jornadas sobre la Enseñanza de la Filosofía, Coloquio Internacional 2014. Conference assistant. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014, April 24-26).
Department of Modern Literature, University of Buenos Aires. I Coloquio Joven “Literatura Europea Medieval en la UBA. Desafíos”. Conference assistant. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013, October 5).
Participant
Papers delivered
"Fiesta, combate y sexualidades desviadas en el aquelarre de las viejas barbudas de Perceforest". II Jornadas de Estudios Medievales, Universidad de la República/UDELAR (online) (2024, February 29 - March 1).
"Gender, Judaism, and Researching Medieval Literature as a South American Scholar: the Life and Work of María Rosa Lida (1910-1962)". Women in Medievalism conference, University of York (2024, February 24).
"Morgana, doncella, madre y bruja. La reconstrucción feminista neopagana de la leyenda artúrica en Las nieblas de Avalon". II Mesa Redonda "Reimaginar la Edad Media: neomedievalismo y cultura popular". University of Buenos Aires/SAEMED (online) (2023, September 3).
“Household Tools, Witches' Weapons: The Fight of the Old Hags in the Roman de Perceforest”. International Medieval Congress, Leeds (2023, July 3-6).
“Dreamlike Hilltops, Ritual Feasts, and Roadside Shrines: Sacred Space in the Cult of Argentine Folk Saints”. 2022 Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Cork (2022, June 27 – July 1). Received the CEU Advanced Certificate of Religious Studies Research Travel Grant.
“Libertinaje y materialismo: lectura y apropiación del fabliau medieval por el marqués de Sade”. Jornadas de Literatura Europea Medieval en la UBA “Confluencias y encrucijadas”, Buenos Aires (online) (2021, July 23-24).
“El vicio decente. De la interpretación de los fabliaux por el marqués de Sade”. XXX Jornadas Nacionales de la Asociación Argentina de Literatura Francesa y Francófona. University of La Plata (2017, May 18-19).
“Texto e imágenes en la Vulgata artúrica de Beinecke MS 229”. With Tomás Razzeto. I Congreso Internacional y XXIX Jornadas Nacionales de la Asociación Argentina de Literatura Francesa y Francófona, Buenos Aires (2016, May 12-14).
“Elaine de Astolat o las trampas de la virtud”. VI Congreso Internacional de Letras “Transformaciones culturales. Debates de la teoría, la crítica y la lingüística”. University of Buenos Aires (2014, November 25-29).
“Androginia y metamorfosis en el Lai de Guigemar”. V Jornadas de Reflexión Monstruos y Monstruosidades, Buenos Aires (2014, October 30 – November 1).
“La función de los alcahuetes en Cligès de Chrétien de Troyes”. I Jornadas Interdisciplinarias de Estudios Medievales. University of Buenos Aires (2014, October 29- 31).
“‘Niña mal aconsejada’: la educación femenina en ‘El celoso extremeño’”. VI Jornadas Cervantinas Internacionales en Azul. Azul, Argentina (2013, November 4-6).
“La caza del ciervo blanco en dos lais bretones del siglo XII: el ciervo como doble del héroe”. I Coloquio Joven “Literatura Europea Medieval en la UBA. Desafíos”. University of Buenos Aires (2013, October 5).
“La Edad Media en la pantalla grande”. With Luis A. Gonzo and Juan Manuel Lacalle. I Coloquio Joven “Literatura Europea Medieval en la UBA. Desafíos”. University of Buenos Aires (2013, October 5).
“Quel beste chevalier estoit: El ciervo blanco como imagen especular del héroe en los lais de Guigemar y Tyolet”. V Congreso Internacional de Letras. Transformaciones culturales: Debates de la teoría, la crítica y la lingüística. University of Buenos Aires (2012, Novermber 27- December 1).