Susana Torres Prieto

Susana Torres Prieto has a PhD. in Slavic Philology by the Universidad Complutense (Madrid), with honorary mention ‘Doctor Europeus’. She is Associate Professor of Humanities at IE University (Madrid). Her research focuses on Medieval Slavic history and culture, with special emphasis on translated literature. She is currently a HURI associate with a MAPA project entitled The Golden Age of Kyivan Rus’ in which she explores the artistic and cultural heritage of pre-Mongol Rus’ focusing on monasteries, churches and manuscripts. She has written extensively on political propaganda in medieval Rus’ and well as on medieval Slavic translated literature and manuscript culture. 

She has recently completed the critical edition of the Slavic versions of the Acta Pilati for Corpus Christianorum and had co-edited several volumes on medieval Slavic studies, the most recent being, with Andrei Franklin, Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia. Texts and Contexts. Studies in honour of Simon C. Franklin (Routledge, 2024). Her two most recent monographs are The Early Slavs: The First Centuries of Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2024) and The Slavic Alexander Romances: A study in Textual Transmissions (forthcoming).