Juez Gálvez, Francisco Javier
Juez Gálvez, Francisco Javier
Membership in Academy:
- corresponding member – Department of Department of Filological Sciences (5/16/2024 – …)
Curriculum Vitae
Francisco Javier Juez Gálvez (Madrid, Spain, 1962) is a university lecturer, literary translator and court interpreter for Latin and all South Slavonic languages.
He graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 1984 with a degree in Classical Philology and a master’s degree in 1985. In 1993, he received his doctorate in philology from the same university with a dissertation on the Latin sources of the Byzantine-Slavonic history of the Tsardom of Bulgaria: Blasii Kleiner’s Archivium Tripartitum Inclytae Provinciae Bulgariae I (1861); the dissertation was unanimously evaluated ‘cum laude’. He subsequently graduated from UCM with a degree in Romance Philology (2007) and a master’s degree from the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, in the programme Political Conflicts and Peacemaking Procedures (2009). He passed the state exam for a high school Latin teacher in 1985.
In 1989/90 he was elected to the scientific title of “Professor asociado” (assistant professor) of Slavonic philology at the Faculty of Philology of UCM, and to the title of “professor contratado doctor” (associate professor) in 2003 at the current Department of German and Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Philology, UCM. He has been awarded four six-year periods of external evaluation of scientific work and six five-year periods of evaluation of university teaching work.
He founded (2009) and leads the UCM research group 941767 “Ibero-Slavonic Studies – Translation, Reception & Comparatism”. He has mentored or co-mentored four master’s and seven doctoral theses (all of them “cum laude”, four with international recognition). He is a member of the Council of Doctoral Programs in Literary Studies and Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, UCM.
He has given lectures and rendered study visits to universities in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine.
He is a member of the editorial boards or advisory boards of journals in Argentina, Bulgaria, Croatia (member of the editorial board of the yearbook Colloquia Maruliana since 2011 and of the international editorial board of the journal Tabula: Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula since 2013), Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain.
He is a member of the International Coordination Council of the International University Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specializations “Prof. dr. phil. sc. Ilija Konev”, South-Western University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) since 1999. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Split Literary Circle.
He was a commissioner of the exhibition “Marko Marulić y la Europa humanista”, the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to Marulić, hold in the Spanish National Library in Madrid, from March 13 to April 14, 2002.
He was granted the “Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos” award (1989), the “Davidias” award of the Croatian Writers’ Association (2002) and the 11th and 15th İKSAD Science Awards (Scientist of the Year for his outstanding scientific performance, 2020 and 2024).