Montserrat Ribao Pereira

Montserrat Ribao Pereira is a Full-Time Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Vigo's Faculty of Philology and Translation, specializing in 18th and 19th-century Spanish literary traditions. Her academic career spans over two decades with continuous research leadership in Romantic theater, historical novels, and medieval reinterpretations.

• Doctorate from University of Santiago de Compostela (1997)
• Director of E-LITE Research Group (Editions and Studies of Spanish Literature)
• Principal Investigator for multiple national research projects
• Supervisor of 25+ graduate theses and 4 doctoral dissertations

Her research centers on Romantic theater as both literary and spectacular product, with particular focus on 19th-century power structures, magic comedies, historical novels, and Pardo Bazán studies. She examines how Romantic writers reinterpreted medieval history—especially the courts of Juan II and Enrique III of Castile—through literary lenses that reflected contemporary political concerns. Her work bridges textual analysis with performance studies, investigating stage directions, musical elements, and visual culture in 19th-century theatrical productions.

Recent publications reveal evolving trends toward gender studies and digital humanities, with increasing attention to female authors like Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Emilia Pardo Bazán. Her 2024 work on genealogical narratives demonstrates methodological expansion into postcolonial frameworks, while maintaining core engagement with Spanish Romanticism's historical consciousness.

Ribao Pereira's academic leadership manifests through the E-LITE research group and major projects including NOCELBA (Medieval Songbook Contexts) and TALIA (Female Protagonists in Historical Spanish Theater). Her current projects MULIER and TALIA explicitly address gender representation in medieval and Romantic literature.

She has directed significant doctoral work including Don Álvaro de Luna (1840) de A. Gil y Zárate. Edición y estudio (2019) and Los cortesanos de don Juan II (1838) de Gerónimo Morán. Estudio y edición (2022), both receiving cum laude distinctions with international recognition. Her supervision extends to innovative pedagogical theses exploring gamification and didactic approaches to historical literature.