Javier Patiño Loira
Associate Professor
Javier Patiño Loira is an Associate Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UCLA, and has been part of the Comedia in Translation group since September 2014. Javier’s research takes place at the crossroads between literature and the history of science in early modern Spain and Italy. He has also published articles and book chapters on the formation of libraries, education, and translation. Javier’s first book, The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe, was published in 2024 by the University of Delaware Press.