Jonatan González García is a PhD candidate at the University of La Rioja researching Anglo-Spanish literary and cultural relations and the reception of British Romantic poetry in continental Europe. He is writing his thesis on the afterlife of William Wordsworth in Spain, and is particularly interested in the place Wordsworthian texts have occupied in the political and cultural landscape of the Iberian nation for the past two hundred years. He is one of the founding members of the Centre for Irish Studies BANNA / BOND, a regional EFACIS centre set up between the Universities of Burgos, Deusto, La Rioja and Zaragoza. He has written articles on Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the reception of the Romantics in twentieth-century Spain for several Spanish and English journals, including Odisea: Journal of English Studies, EREBEA: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, The Coleridge Bulletin or Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Together with Cristina Flores, he is currently working on a scholarly edition of Robert Southey’s 1797 travelogue Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal. With Some Account of Spanish and Portugueze Poetry, to be published by Routledge.
