Núria Puigdevall Bafaluy is currently a Professor at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa. She has previously taught at the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Naples L’Orientale, and has also taught courses at the University of Salerno and the University of Molise (Campobasso). Her research focuses on both Spanish and Catalan studies.

Together with the board of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Catalani, she founded the Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, and she is a member of the editorial board of Scripta. Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna. She is also the founder of the Iberica Neapolitana series, published by Guida (Naples).

She has also pursued a distinguished career as a translator, particularly in the field of literary and scholarly essays. Her Italian translations include studies by M. de Riquer and M. J. Lacarra, published in Il racconto, edited by M. Picone (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1985); her Catalan translation of C. Di Girolamo’s I trovatori (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1990), published by Edicions Alfons el Magnànim in 1994; and her translation of G. Parker’s historical essay La «gran estratègia» de Felip II (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2003).

Among her other translation projects is La poesia oggettiva nella letteratura oggettiva catalana medievale. Antologia di testi con traduzione a fronte, co-authored with Anna Maria Compagna. She also translated V. Escartí’s novel Dies d’Ira, winner of the 1991 Ciutat d’Alzira Prize, into Italian as I giorni dell'ira. Le vicende prodigiose di un nobile valenzano del secolo XVI (Guida, 2023).

Together with Anna Maria Compagna, she edited the monographic issue Traduzioni e riscritture del periodo aragonese, published in eHumanista, vol. 8 (2015).

Genre: Fiction, Non-Fiction

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