TELLO, JOAN (also TELLO BRUGAL, JOAN)
• Wenner-Gren Foundations Fellow at Stockholm University, March 2025 - February 2027 | Project: Vives’s Handbook of Metaphysics: Between the Aristotelian/Scholastic Tradition and Early Modern Thought. Edition and philosophical study of Joan Lluís Vives’s De prima philosophia (1531).
• Selected Works of J. L. Vives, General Editor (January 2025 - ). Brill. here
• Postdoctoral researcher "Margarita Salas" (Next Generation EU Funding), University of Barcelona and Stockholm University, November 2022 - October 2024 | Project: Towards a Complete Analysis of the Term ‘Animus’: A Contribution to Philosophy of Mind.
• PhD in Philosophy with Honours (Program: Contemporary Thought and Classical Studies. Branch: Renaissance Philosophy), University of Barcelona | Dissertation: Joan Lluís Vives's "Introductio ad Sapientiam": Critical Edition and Philosophical Study.
• MA in Philosophy with Honours (Program: Contemporary Thought and The Classical Tradition), University of Barcelona | Dissertation: Joan Lluís Vives, "Satellitium siue Symbola". Estudi introductori, edició crítica, traducció, notes i apèndix.
• BA in Classical Philology with Honours (Latin and Greek), Autonomous University of Barcelona.
• Convivium: Revista de Filosofia, Managing Editor (June 2018 - December 2024). Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona.
Research, Teaching
Fields, and Fields of Interest
Renaissance Philosophy
and Humanism
Moral Philosophy and Epistemology
Aristotle’s Thought and
the Reception of Aristotle’s Thought
The Notion of Animus
(‘conscious soul’, ‘mind’, ‘will’) through Time
The Classical Tradition, Paremiology and Aphorisms
The Print and the Book in
the Early Modern Period
Chinese Classical
Thought
Classical Greek and Culture
Latin and Neo-Latin
Language and Culture
The Edition of Neo-Latin Texts
Command of
Languages
Native Speaker: Spanish,
Catalan
Near Native
Speaker: English
Proficient: Latin,
Neo-Latin, Classical Greek
Conversational: Chinese,
French, Italian
