I studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where I earned my PhD with a thesis on Quevedo’s Love Poetry (1992). My interests have always focused on Spanish Golden Age literature and, specifically, on three authors: Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. From a literary perspective, this means that my research addresses the three canonical literary genres of our tradition: prose, poetry, and theater. I have dedicated various works and editions to all of these genres and to the authors cited, in more than one hundred articles, editions, and books.
At the same time, my teaching work also focuses on these authors and the same topics on which I have supervised ten doctoral theses. I served the university as director of the Departamento de Lengua y Literatura españolas, Teoría de la Literatura y Lingüística General in the USC for more than twelve years, in addition to various positions within the university administration. I have also served as president of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (AISO).
Currently, I direct the Calderón Research Group (www.calderondelabarca.org) at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and, in another area, the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (www.catedrainditexdaca.org)
I have been visiting professor at the universities of Toulouse-Le Mirail / Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Université de Poitiers (France), Università Ca` Foscari, Venezia, Università Roma Tre and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy), Nanjing University (China), University of Tehran (Iran), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany) and University of Chicago (USA).
As an amateur, I have published two photography books and held several photography exhibitions in Porto (Portugal), New Delhi (India), Pamplona, Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña (Spain).
Selected publications (only books)
Géneros y construcción literaria en el Siglo de Oro, Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica, 162, Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2023.
Calderón: textos, reescritura, significado y representación, Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica, 104, Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015.
La tormenta en el Siglo de Oro. Variaciones funcionales de un tópico, Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica, 43, Universidad de Navarra, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, Madrid – Frankfurt am Main, 2006.
Quevedo: reescritura e intertextualidad, Estudios críticos de literatura, Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid, 2005.
La poesía amorosa de Quevedo. Disposición y estilo desde “Canta sola a Lisi”, Editorial Gredos, Madrid, 1999.
Índices de la poesía de Quevedo, Universidade de Santiago – P.P.U., Barcelona, 1993. En colaboración con Antonio Azaustre.
Edición e introducción de Francisco de Quevedo, Prosa I. Obras Burlescas, en colaboración con Abraham Madroñal, Biblioteca Castro, Fundación José Antonio de Castro, Madrid, 2012.
Edición e introducción de Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Comedias II. Segunda Parte de Comedias, Biblioteca Castro, Fundación José Antonio de Castro, Madrid, 2007.
Edición, introducción y notas a Francisco de Quevedo, Execración contra los judíos, Editorial Crítica, Barcelona, 1993. En colaboración con Fernando Cabo. Segunda edición, Editorial Crítica, Barcelona, 1996.
Diez años en Daca, Cátedra Inditex de Lengua y Cultura españolas, Santiago de Compostela, 2021. (Photography book)
