Victoria Cirlot

Victoria Cirlot Valenzuela (born 1955), daughter of poet Juan Eduardo Cirlot, is a Spanish scholar of medieval culture and literature, philologist, translator and editor. She is a tenured professor of medieval literature and comparative literature at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona,^[1] Celtic religion professor at the University of Barcelona, and professor of symbology at the Universitat Ramon Llull in the same city. She is co-editor of the collection El Árbol del Paraíso of Editorial Siruela (Madrid).^[2] She is also a founding member of the Institut Universitari de Cultura and coordinator of the research team of the Biblioteca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas. Cirlot is a member of the Institut Carl Gustav Jung Barcelona. Some of her fields are the study of mysticism, symbology and the history of religions, as well as aesthetics of reception.^[3][4]

Cirlot was born in Barcelona to the poet Juan Eduardo Cirlot, whose book A Dictionary of Symbols she edited, and which contains an epilogue by her. Her sister is fellow professor Lourdes Cirlot.^[5]

• Antología de textos de literaturas románicas (with A.M. Mussons AM, G. Oliver and I. Riquer)
• Figuras del Destino. Mitos y símbolos de la Europa Medieval
• Les cançons de l'amor de lluny de Jaufré Rudel
• Vidas y visiones de Hildegard von Bingen
• Hildegard von Bingen y la tradición visionaria de Occidente
• La mirada interior: escritoras místicas y visionarias en la Edad Media (with Blanca Garí)
• Mística y creación en el siglo XX (with Amador Vega)
• Cirlot en Vallcarca
• La visión abierta. Del mito del Grial al Surrealismo

• UPF Website
• Siruela website