Carmen Benítez holds a PhD on Medieval History from the University of Seville (2016), where she teaches in Graduate and Postgraduate levels. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the same University (2017-2021), where she is now Associate Professor (2022). She has a History Degree (ancient Licenciatura, University of Seville, 2008), and a Master on Medieval Hispanic Studies (University Autonomous of Madrid, 2012), and she has made research stays at the University Complutense of Madrid, the University Paris-Sorbonne IV, and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her research focuses on Castilian historiography (14th), especially on the uses of past to build present legitimacy, edition and handwritten transmission of historical texts. More recently, she has also worked on the reception of medieval historiography in the 16th century, and so, she is working at the moment on a group of unpublished annals that were presumably written during the 14th century. She is a member of the Research Group HUM-214 'The Kingdom of Seville during the Late Middle Ages' (Junta de Andalucía, University of Seville), the Research Group 'Uses of the Past' (CHUL), and the project Opposing the king: Rebellions, regnal state, and political culture in Castile from a comparative perspective (13th-15th c.) (University of Valladolid, 2022).