Luis Martín-Estudillo is a professor in the Department of Spanish at the University of Iowa (USA), where he is in charge of the European Studies Group, and visiting professor at the universities of Minnesota (USA) and Groningen (Netherlands). His fields of study are Spanish literature and culture, European studies, and visual studies. He directs the Hispanic Issues collection and the journal Hispanic Issues Online.

He has received several awards for his teaching and research career: Collegiate Teaching Award (2009), Dean's Scholar Award (2011), National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship (2015), Collegiate Scholar Award (2019)... His publications on history and cultural criticism focus on the convergence and tension arisen between diverse aesthetic manifestations —from film and literature to performance and video art— and socio-political development from early modernity to the present day.

He has edited several books: Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context (2005), Post-Authoritarian Cultures: Spain and Latin America’s Southern Cone (2008), Filosofía y tiempo final (2010) and New Spain, New Literatures (2010). He is the author of more than fifty articles in specialized journals of several disciplines (philology, history, art and philosophy) and studies such as Libertad y límites: el Barroco hispánico (2004) and La mirada elíptica: el trasfondo barroco de la poesía española contemporánea (2007). His latest published works are The Rise of Euroskepticism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018, Open Book Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities 2020) and Despertarse de Europa. Arte, literatura y euroescepticismo (Cátedra, 2019). He is currently working on a monograph titled Goya and the Mystery of Reading and he is preparing an exhibition on the Aragonese artist for the Stanley Museum of Art. In his spare time he plays the viola in the Gutenberg string quartet.

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