Mathilde Claire Janine

Albisson

Mathilde Albisson is currently a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Instituto de Historia of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She holds a PhD from Sorbonne University (France). Previously, she was a Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) at UCLouvain (Belgium, 2024-2026), a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain, 2022-2024), and a Lecturer at Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3 and Sorbonne Nouvelle University (France, 2019-2022).

She has been a visiting researcher at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Roma Tre University, the Belgian Academy in Rome, the University of Parma, the University of Salamanca, Complutense University of Madrid, and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Since 2016, she has pursued a research programme on inquisitorial censorship in Early Modern Spain, resulting in more than 60 publications, conference papers, and invited lectures. She also led a research project on the agents of the Spanish Inquisition in Rome, funded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS, grant no. 40010693), and has collaborated on 7 research projects on dissent and censorship in the Early Modern period conducted by the Seminario de Estudios sobre el Renacimiento at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Her main contributions include the monograph El proceso al libro. La censura inquisitorial en la España del siglo XVII (Cátedra, 2024), the edited volume Los agentes de la censura en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII (Peter Lang, 2022), and the exhibition Malos libros. La censura en la España Moderna at the National Library of Spain (2022-2023), which she co-curated.