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Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (1967- ) is a Distinguished Professor of classical, medieval and early modern Iberian cultures at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a professor since 1997.

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña trained as a classical scholar and obtained a BA in both Classical Philology (1985-1989) and Hispanic Philology (1985-1989) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He went on to study a PhD in Classical Studies at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (1989-1993), where he wrote monographs on neo-Latin authors such as Sebastián Fox Morcillo (De historiae institutione dialogus) and Juan Pérez Petreyo (Los Supuestos) under the direction of Antonio Alvar Ezquerra. In addition, he became involved in the project Admyte under the direction of Ángel Gómez Moreno. He obtained an MA in Renaissance Spanish Literature from the Université d´Ottawa in 1993 where he worked on a monograph on theater censorship and an edition of El acierto en el engaño y robador de su honra by Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez under the direction of J.M. Ruano de la Haza. In 1993-1997, Antonio Cortijo obtained a second PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked on several projects. He wrote a monograph on the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan sentimental romance. He also compiled a catalogue of the historical and poetic works of the Fernán Núñez Collection at the Bancroft Library and he edited and studied a series of letters from early Guatemala history (1530-s and 1540-s), later known as the Díaz de la Reguera affair. During those years, he was also involved in the project PhiloBiblon and Admyte II under the direction of Charles B. Faulhaber, Ángel Gómez Moreno, and Francisco Marcos Marín. In 1995, while working at the Biblioteca de Palacio in Madrid for the PhiloBiblon project, he discovered the Portuguese long sought-after version of the Confessio Amantis, a Portuguese translation by Robert(o) Payn(o) of John Gower´s Middle English [|Confessio Amantis]. This version had been thought lost for centuries and some scholars had even doubted its existence. In collaboration with Manuela Faccon, he published a monumental 2-volume edition of this work in 2018 entitled Confessio Amantis: Literatura moral y materia amorosa en Inglaterra y la Península Ibérica (siglos XIV-XV) (CiLengua, Fundación San Millán de la Cogolla) that includes the text in English, medieval Spanish and medieval Portuguese.