Barcelona, España
During the last twenty years, Romance Philology in Spain has suffered a serious setback. This fact is due to several factors: the hispanocentrism of its origins, the later supremacy of English language as well as of other cross-cutting disciplines, the fall in students demand, the atomization of each language and literature in different degrees, and, finally, the cultural policy of governments and academic authorities to the detriment of the Humanities. In front of this complex situation, it is necessary to recover the most cross-cutting essence of the Romance tradition, drawing on some of the proposals done by Curtius and Auerbach and in the advances made by the theories of knowledge.