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• Antonio Lluberes
Lluberes is a priest of the Society of Jesus, whose members are known as the Jesuits. He completed under-
graduate studies in Philosophy at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra; a degree in Theology at
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome; and a master’s degree in History at George Washington University
in Washington, D.C. He was a professor at Universidad Intec, Seminario Santo Tomas de Aquino, and In-
stituto Filosófico Bonó. He served as the Director of Instituto Filosófico Bonó, the journal Estudios Sociales ,
Radio Santa María, and Radio Fe y Alegría. He completed studies on the social history of tobacco and sugar,
migration and economics in the Caribbean; the Revolution of 1857; the liberal constitutions of 1900 and 1916;
and the history of the Church in the Spanish Caribbean. He is a correspondent member of the Dominican
Academy of History.
• Félix Manuel Lora
Lora is a journalist, film critic, and researcher. He has worked in film journalism for different communication
media. He directed the documentary Un rollo en la arena (2005), which brings together the most important
considerations on film in the Dominican Republic. He has written two books on Dominican film: Encuadre de
una identidad audiovisual (2007), which analyzes the evolution of the audiovisual media in the country in all of
its forms, and Cine Dominicano en la Mira: Catálogo 1963-2014, algunos comentarios al margen (2015), a book which
evaluates Dominican film production. He has given talks on Dominican film in his homeland and abroad,
and he has also served as a member of the evaluating commitees at international film festivals such as Latitud
Cero Ecuador (2013) and Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) (2014). He is a
professor of Audiovisual Communication and Cinematographic Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre
y Maestra and Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo. He is a film critic for the TV program El Despertador ,
the digital portal and for his own Dominican film portal He chairs
the Asociación Dominicana de Prensa y Crítica Cinematográfica (Adopresci).
• Danilo Manera
Born in Alba in 1957, Danilo Manera is an Italian author, translator, and critic. He is a professor of Spanish lit-
erature at the University of Milan, where he is also the Director of the “Marcio Veloz Maggiolo” Department
of Dominican Studies. He is the author of dozens of articles and essays, and he has prepared Italian editions by
many Spanish and Latin-American authors, as well as anthologies on Dominican, Cuban, Canarian, Basque,
Galician, Colombian, Chilean, Haitian, and Equatorial Guinean stories and poems. He is the coordinator of
the manual Letteratura spagnola contemporanea (Milan, Pearson, 2020), director of the Rotte a ponente Hispanic
narrative collection from the Robin publishing house of Rome, and director of the digital magazine for Iberian
studies Tintas. His most recent novel is called Lamalasantísima (Rome, Elliot, 2019).
• Rosa Manfredonia
Manfredonia was born in Gragnano, Naples, in 1978. She is currently a professor of Literature at the state
secondary school, and she primarily works in Medieval Latin Hagiography. She is the author of volumes and
essays in multiple international scientific journals, including: Dossier hagiográfico del siglo XV sobre S. Giacomo
della Marca, 2007; La Passione di Felice martire, vescovo di Nola (BHL 2869), edited by R. Manfredonia-E. D’An-
gelo, Florence 2013; Hagiografía Latina del Sur Continental y Sicilia (1266-1442), in Hagiografías VI, edited by G.
Philippart and M. Goullet, Turnhout 2014; L’auctoritas del viaggiatore. La praefatio del Itinerario de Alessandro
Geraldini, in Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris, Florence 2014; De Umbría al Mediterráneo y al Atlán-
tico. Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerarium ad regiones subequinoctiali plaga constitutas, edited by E. D’Angelo (Italian
translation and notes) and R. Manfredonia (text and critical apparatus), Genoa 2017; and I miracoli di Ludovico
d’Angiò: una ricognizione critica, in Da Ludovico d’Angiò a San Ludovico di Tolosa. Los textos y las imágenes, Atti del
Convegno internazionale di studio (Napoli-S. Maria Capua Vetere, November 3-5, 2016) for the VII centenary of
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