Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid (Spain). He teaches American Literature. His research focuses on the reception of literature written in English in Spain (E. A. Poe, T.S. Eliot, P.B. Shelley) and American short fiction (E.A. Poe, N. Hawthorne, H. Melville, R. Carver, R. Ford, S. Dybek, among others). He has published Presencia de Edgar Allan Poe en la literatura española (1999), En torno a los márgenes: Ensayos de literatura poscolonial (2008), has edited Antología del cuento grotesco (2007) and Pioneros. Cuentos norteamericanos del siglo XIX (2011), and translated and edited some Henry James’ short fiction (2005). He has also translated Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days (2019).