Gemma Pellissa Prades is the coordinator of the MOOC Magic in the Middle Ages. She holds a Ph.D. in Catalan Language and Literature by the Universitat de Barcelona, where she was a lecturer when this project started. She is currently a Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctorall Fellow in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. Her research interests are sentimental romances and fifteenth-century translations.