Xavier Blanco Escoda
Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Xavier Blanco Escoda is a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he heads the Department of French and Romance Philology. He teaches lexicology, the history of the French language, as well as medieval and 19th-century literature. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several monographs, the most recent of which is Crònica de la quarta croada (Viella, Rome, 2022). He has also coordinated several special issues of journals such as Langages, Lingvisticæ Investigationes, Langues et Parole, and Cahiers de Linguistique, and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Franche-Comté, Ulm Munich, Warsaw, Łódź, Saint Petersburg State University, and Belarusian State University.