Dr. Ana Rita Gonçalves Soares (Oporto, 1992) is a Lecture in Romance Languages and Literatures at the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a PhD (with distinction) in “Literary Studies” from the same university, where she was engaged as a Pre-doctoral Fellow Researcher between 2016 and 2021. She also received a degree in “European Languages and Literatures” (University of Minho) and completed two Master’s degrees from the University of Santiago de Compostela: “Literature and Cultural Studies” and “European Medieval Studies”. Together with Dr. Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida, she currently co-edits the “Catalogue of Living Saints”, an online wiki catalogue developed by the Research Project “Catalogue of Living Saints (1400-1550): Towards a complete corpus of a female hagiographic model” and funded by the Spanish Government. Her line of work mostly deals with contemporary literary medievalism. The results of her research are available online in journals such as Tropelías, Medievalismo, Elos, Medievalia and Brumal.
