Ph.D. in Art History (Universitat de Barcelona, 1986) and Ph.D. in Catalan Philology (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, 1999). Professor (Catedràtic) for History of Catalan Drama at the Department of Catalan Philology (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona). Coordinator of Consolidated Research Group LAIREM (Literature, Art and Performance in the long Middle Ages), 2009 SGR 258; 2014 SGR 894, 2017 SGR 1514 AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya). LITEDRAN - Iconodansa: Literatura, representació, dansa coordinat per Licia Buttà (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2011 & ss.) Guest lecturer at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona and at the Master Degree of Theatre Studies (module Performing Arts and other arts) of the UAB-IT-UPF. Theatre critic at the daily newspaper Avui (1992-2012) and contributor to magazines such as Serra d'Or, Drammaturgia, European Medieval Drama and Estudis Escènics. He has obtained the Massó and Torrens Prize (1987) and Jaume I (1990) from the Institut de Estudis Catalans. He has been Secretary General and President of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théâtre Médiéval. He has published around thirty books and hundreds of articles in the main languages of Europe and America, particularly on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque theatre and dance, as well as aspects linked to popular theatre and folk traditions. He has participated with papers and communications in more than a hundred international conferences, and has staged several performances in the medieval and Renaissance tradition. Member of the following research groups: * Coordinator of the Research Group LAiREM. * Heterotopías coréuticas: danza y performance en la cultura visual y literaria del Mediterráneo desde la Antiguedad tardía hasta la Edad Media Projecte I + D HAR2017-85625-P, directed by Licia Buttà. * Architecture and liturgy. The artistic context of the cathedral books of ceremonies of the Crown of Aragon, directed by Eduardo Carrero (University of the Balearic Islands). He has obtained up to the present, six sexennium of research and five sexennium of teaching. He has directed eight doctoral theses with the highest grades. Most relevant publications (books): Teatre religiós medieval als Països Catalans (Barcelona, 1984). La Festa d'Elx i els misteris medievals europeus (Alacant, 1991) Premi Jaume I de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans (1990). La ilusión de Ícaro. Un desafío a los dioses. Máquinas de vuelo en le espectáuclo de tradición medieval y sus pervivencias en España (Madrid 1997), La monarquía en escena (Madrid 2003), Història del Teatre Català (Tarragona, 2007). A cos de rei. Festa cívica i espectacle del poder reial a la Corona d'Aragó (Valls, 2010); Those Dark Ages Revisited. New Perspectives for the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Kassel 2014), Iconography of Dance from Classical to Middle Age (2014), Teatralitat popular i tradició (2015), La dansa dels altres (2017), La teatralitat medieval i la seva pervivència (Història de les Arts Escèniques Catalanes, I) (2017), Ara ve Nadal! (2018), Comedia de corte: La Vesita de Joan Fernández de Heredia (2020).