Staff profile

My academic career has developed along two main strands. One is teaching and research in Hispanic literature and cultural studies; the other is modern foreign languages teaching and learning, which I have been working on since 1995.

I first came to Durham in 2003 with a four-year research grant from Institut Ramon Llull. Between then and 2007, I completed my doctoral thesis on Occitan and Catalan medieval literature. This research was the basis of my monograph Ausiàs March, les dones i l’amor (2009). I also designed and established the Catalan language and culture modules that have continued to run successfully until today at the School of Modern Languages.

Before coming back to Durham in 2013, I was associate lecturer in medieval Romance studies at the University of Barcelona. I also worked as an instructional designer in the development of the online Catalan language course parla.cat, and completed a master's degree in teaching methodologies in higher education. 

In my role as UNILANG Lead Examiner (2015-2019), I have been invited to deliver presentations and workshops for university teachers across the UK, and I have created training materials to guide examiners in the application of the scheme.

Authored book

• Coderch, Marion (2009). Ausiàs March, les dones i l'amor. Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim.

Chapter in book

• Coderch, Marion (2022). Gender-sensitive mentoring of Modern Languages' women teachers in UK higher education. In Handbook for creating a gender-sensitive curriculum: teaching and learning strategies. Kitchener, Mary (Ed.) Oxford Brookes University. 74-76.
• Coderch, Marion & Avenoza, Gemma (2015). La reproduction des modèles dans des manuscrits hispaniques du XVe siècle. In Re-Inventing Traditions: On the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Late Medieval Manuscript Illumination. Heyder, Joris Corin & Seidel, Christine Peter Lang. 89-104.
• Coderch, Marion (2012). Actituds davant les dones entre l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement. In Dones i literatura. Entre l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement (2 vols). Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim. 2: 527-553.
• Coderch, Marion (2011). ‘Escapando de la molicie mujeril’ virtudes femeninas y atributos de género en los tratados de defensa de las mujeres. In La Querella de las Mujeres, III: La Querella de las Mujeres, antecedente de la polémica feminista. Segura, Cristina Asociación Cultural Al-Mudayna. 75-90.
• Coderch, Marion (2010). ‘Lleixau a mi acomanat a amor’ l’amant, la dama i l’amor a la lírica d’Ausiàs March. In La poesia d’Ausiàs March i el seu temps. Bellveser, Ricardo Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim. 263-283.
• Coderch, Marion (2008). ‘Ben aia•l cortes essiens’ articulació de la lloança i el blasme de la dama en una cançó de Raimon de Miraval (406, 14: 1). In Miscel•lània Gabriel Oliver Coll. de Riquer, Isabel Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona: Govern de les Illes Balears / Conselleria d’Educació i Cultura. 19-27.

Edited book

• Soriano, L., Rovira, H., Coderch, M., Sabaté, G. & Espluga, X. (2014). Humanities on the Web: The Medieval World. Peter Lang.

Edited Journal

• Coderch, Marion (2015). Innovació, traducció, reescriptura: estudis sobre lèxic i interpretació en textos literaris medievals i en les seves traduccions. Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 45 (1): Institución Milà i Fontanals (CSIC).

Journal Article

• Coderch, Marion (2021). An initial assessment of the academic and professional profile of modern foreign languages’ teachers in UK higher education. Language Learning in Higher Education 11(2): 527-535.
• Coderch, Marion (2015). Entre l’amor i el dret: l’ús del lèxic feudal a la lírica amorosa medieval catalana i valenciana. = Between love and law: feudal vocabulary in medieval Catalan and Valencian courtly love lyric. Anuario de Estudios Medievales 45(1): 195-231.
• Coderch, Marion (2014). Amor i senyoria: dinàmiques de poder a la poesia d'Ausiàs March. eHumanista-Ivitra 6: 32-38.
• Coderch, Marion (2013). Poder i submissió a la lírica cortesa medieval provençal, catalana i valenciana. Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (54): 9-32.
• Coderch, Marion (2013). Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell i la tradició medieval. Estudis Romànics 35: 435-442.
• Coderch, Marion (2011). Actitudes frente a los ideales éticos corteses en la lírica castellana y catalanovalenciana de los siglos XIV y XV. Revista de Literatura Medieval 23: 87-103.
• Coderch, Marion (2011). 'Lo rossinhols s’esbaudeya’ (70, 29): Bernart de Ventadorn, Courtly Ethics and the Catalan Tradition. Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 4: 101-114.
• Coderch, Marion (2008). La dama com a objecte de l’amor espiritual en la lírica d’Ausiàs March. Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona 51: 129-144.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Coderch, Marion (2022). The power of gender-sensitive mentoring. THE Campus

Translated Book

• Coderch, Marion & Micó, José María (trans.) (2017). Ausiàs March: Dictats. Obra completa. Ed. by Robert Archer . Cátedra
• Coderch, Marion (trans.) (2011). Archer, Robert. La cuestión odiosa. La mujer en la literatura hispánica tardomedieval . Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim