has ample experience both as a research team member and as principal investigator (IP) in competitive research projects (Proyectos I+D). His monograph In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002) and several other articles in impact journals are instances of the combination of contemporary theory and rigorous philological analysis that is at the basis of the present project proposal. His recent work (internationally published in, among others, Studies in Philology, Edinburgh University Press, or Philological Quarterly) has acquainted him with the need to investigate in this and other English poets of the 1590s the relations between creativity and productivity, and more specifically the ways in which economic notions such as ‘debt’, ‘gain’, ‘riches’ or ‘poverty’ contribute

to the shaping of alternative aesthetic theories and to the dominant Elizabethan courtly poetics. This will constitute a substantial part of his contribution to this project. Dr Luis is the current President of SEDERI.

has published on early modern English literature, particularly on Elizabethan drama and rhetoric. Her book Mimesis and the Representation of Experience: Dramatic Theory and Practice in pre-Shakespearean Comedy 1560– 1590 (Peter Lang, 2012) was awarded the ‘Best Publication in Literary Studies’ Prize by the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN) and was shortlisted for the ‘Best Publication in English Literature’ Award by the European Association of Studies in English (ESSE. Her most recent work on Thomas Lodge: a modern critical edition of his collection of poems Phillis (in progress) will help develop the literary with the economic from a rhetorical perspective. This will prove very useful for the project as Lodge showed deep concern with the importance of gold and usury partly materialized in An Alarum Against Usurers, which he published in 1584. Dr. Zunino-Garrido will therefore explore the significance of concepts such as money, gold and usury, among others, in Lodge’s –and coetanous poets’- literary production.

has an extensive record of publications on the Spanish Match and Anglo-Spanish literary and political relations at large (including the economic) in the early modern period. She has paid special attention to travel literature and the Jesuits in England and early modern English texts. Dr Demetriou has been research team member in various proyectos I+D on the early modern period, and she will be in charge of Anglo-Spanish relations in the economic realm.

has conducted research in different areas dealing with the Spanish and English 16th and 17th centuries. He has focused on the creation of England’s pre- and colonial discourse in relation to the New World and New World gold. This research has crystalized in more than thirty publications in books and journals of international impact, some of which have merited the highest praise from world-known experts in these fields, very notably his book-length study A New World for a New Nation: The Promotion of America in Early Modern England (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2007), reviewed by Anthony Payne, Vice-president of the Hakluyt Society in London. Dr Borge has also been a member of the Editorial Team of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Tudor England. He will concentrate on the impact that the inflow of American gold had on both Spain and England as well as on the relationship between both nations. He will also explore gold-related narratives of the global ocean.