Francisco Peña Fernández

Francisco Peña Fernández is an associate professor and PI of Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Spanish Historiography: A Digital Humanities Project. His research focuses on Literary Studies, Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, and History of Ideas. His main fields of study include and combine the literary study of the Bible, the influence of the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, and Jewish/Christian relations in Medieval Iberia. He is the author of José Saramago o la intertextualidad inversa: Transformación de la tradición apócrifa en O Evanghelo segundo Jesus Cristo (2006) and Apócrifos bíblicos contemporáneos: definición, estructura y análisis (2004), His work has appeared in eHumanista, South Atlantic Review, Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, and numerous edited collections. email: francisco.pena@ubc.ca