From poetic and artistic-musical creation, I am interested in the almost ineffable eloquence that the physical environment projects on our emotions and feelings. Listening to the voice of nature from all its non-human bodies makes us understand the true substance of which we are composed, thus becoming a true flame, or source of primordial inspiration, which flows (and ignites) in the previously empty text.

Professor of Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (with an interest in Ecocriticism). He studies humans and their environment in ecopoetry, and the interactive observation of landscape and the relationship of sensitive selves with an agent and eloquent nature. In addition to several co-edited monographs in journals such as ExCentric Narratives (3), or RCEI (64/77/81/82/83), he has edited The Painful Chrysalis. Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity (Peter Lang, 2011), Realidad y simbología de la montaña [Reality and Symbology of the Mountain] (UAH, 2012) and co-edited Revolving Around India(s): Alternative Images, Emerging Perspectives (CSP, 2019). He is editor of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (2014-) and head of the Universidad de La Laguna Centre for Canadian Studies (1997-). He is president of the Spanish James Joyce Association (2019-); he was also president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE, 2014-2016) and of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII, 2014-2019). He is a member of the research groups GIECO-Franklin-UAH (Ecocriticism) and Ratnakara-UAB (Indian Ocean Literatures).

Lines of research: Eco-Postcolonialism, Ecopoetry, Material Ecocriticism, “Sense of Place, Sense of Belonging.”