Mita Casacuberta

Mita Casacuberta, born in Olot in 1964, is a professor of contemporary Catalan literature at the University of Girona, where she directs the Joan Vinyoli Contemporary Poetry Chair and the Víctor Català Modernisme Studies Chair. Her research focuses on the history of contemporary Catalan literature and its long-term cultural, political and social implications, with a particular focus on modernisme.

She has conducted in-depth research into the institution of the Jocs Florals, as well as other literary contests and the literary construction of urban and rural landscapes. She is the author of Els Jocs Florals d’Olot (1988) and Els Jocs Florals de Girona (2010), and has co-edited works such as Narratives urbanes. La construcció literària de Barcelona (2008) and La construcció literària del territori: Costa Brava i Empordà (2018).

Much of her career has been spent on the interdisciplinary study of modernisme, with titles including Santiago Rusiñol: vida, literatura i mite (1997), Marian Vayreda i Vila (1853-1903). La recerca d’una veu pròpia (2003) and Víctor Català, l’escriptora emmascarada (2019).

She has contributed to cultural magazines, published Catalan classics (Rusiñol, Berga i Boix, Vayreda), curated exhibitions on art and literature, translated Zola, Némirovsky and Perec into Catalan; and coordinated the MOT Literature Festival (2015-2017).