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Jesús Tronch is Professor of English at the University of Valencia, where he teaches English literature and creative translation.
    His main research interests are textual criticism (specifically on Shakespeare and early modern drama) and translation and reception studies (specifically the presence of Shakespeare in Spain). He has published A Synoptic 'Hamlet' (2002), and Un primer 'Hamlet' (1994), co-edited bilingual English-Spanish editions of The Tempest (1994) and Antony and Cleopatra (2001), and, with Clara Calvo, a critical edition of The Spanish Tragedy for the Arden Early Modern Drama series (2013). He has also published commissioned essays in book collections published by MLA, Palgrave, University of Delaware Press, Cambridge University Press, and articles and reviews on journals such as TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, SEDERI, Atlantis, Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Survey. He has contributed to the research project "Shakespeare in Spain within the framework of his European reception" based at the University of Murcia.
At present, he is editing Timon of Athens for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, collaborating in EMOTHE, an open-access, hypertextual and multilingual collection of early modern European theatre developed by the ARTELOPE research project at the University of Valencia (currently as Principal Investigator of the EMOTHE project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, 2017-2019), and directing the HIERONIMO Project (funded in 2016-2017 by Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian autonomous government).
From April 2009 to May 2017, he was the Secretary-Treasurer of SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies. He was a member of the Conference Committee of the International Shakespeare Association (2007-2011), is presently a member of the Advisory Board of the International Shakespeare Conference, and referees for a number of journals such as Shakespeare, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Cahiers Élisabéthains, SEDERI, Amaltea and Atlantis.
Since November 2010 he is the coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in English Studies of the Universitat de València.