Dr. José Manuel Estévez-Saá is a university professor, essayist and columnist. He is also a specialist in Anglo-American and European Studies, and an international political analyst. Director of the International Policy and Transcultural Relations Observatory (OPIRET-UDC), affiliated with the Cultural Studies Division at the Amergin University Institute, Estévez-Saá holds a PhD in English Philology, Literature, History and Culture of English-Speaking Countries (PhD), a Degree in European Union Law (LLM.Eur), a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Foreign Trade (MPhil), and in Social Exclusion, Integration and Citizenship (MPhil), as well as a Diploma in Social Policies and Immigration. He teaches on graduate and postgraduate degree programmes at the Faculties of Philology, Law, Communication Sciences and Education Sciences of the University of A Coruña; and PhD and Master’s programmes at the UDC, the Menéndez Pelayo International University, the University of Seville, the University of Santiago de Compostela, the University Institute of Research in Irish Studies Amergin, the Instituto Superior Istrad, and the University of Córdoba.

He is the author of more than two hundred academic publications, including books, articles in scientific journals, and book chapters; and in his current position as tenured Professor at the University of A Coruña (UDC), and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Amergin University Research Institute, he carries out extensive research, collaborating with the University of California (UCSB), where he was guest Visiting Professor; the City University of New York (CCNY-CUNY), where he was also Visiting Professor; the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), where he completed much of his training and began his career as a teacher and researcher; the University of Seville (US), where he taught for ten years and was Vice-Dean; and the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), with which he has collaborated in various seminars and where he is also a professor of master's studies. Estévez-Saá is also a member of the Franklin Institute - UAH, a university centre specialised in relations between Spain and the Americas; and a member of the scientific committee of the Centre for Security Studies (CESEG), a joint university division formed by the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and the Higher Centre for National Defense Studies (CESEDEN). In addition, as principal investigator (PI), for the last fifteen years professor Estévez-Saá has been leading relevant international projects funded by different Ministries of the Kingdom of Spain, such as "Aesthetics, ethics and strategy of the new migratory cartographies and transcultural identities..." (Ref. PID2019-109582GB-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation; "Emigration and immigration in Europe, New typologies of (E/Im)migration in Europe..." (Ref. FFI2012-38790), funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; and "Great European famines in their (con)texts, The Great Irish Famine and its centenary silence in Europe..." (Ref. FFI2009-12751), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.