Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Literature (1993) and PhD in English Philology (1998) by the Universidad de Alcalá. He has five six-year teaching terms and four six-year research terms. He has directed or been responsible for fifteen research projects or grants and has participated in an additional seventeen. He coordinates the UAH High Performance Research Group “American Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (AMICUSS)”.  He has supervised or co-supervised seven doctoral theses. He has conducted research stays at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Limerick; and the City College of New York. He is a member of the UAH Teaching Innovation Group of Excellence “Areté 2030: Sustainable Development Goals and Teaching Innovation in Humanities.  He has been  Deputy Director (2003-2011), Academic Secretary (2011-2013) and  Director (2013-2019) at Instituto Franklin-UAH.  Since 2019, he has held the position of Vice President for International Relations at the University of Alcalá.  His research and teaching areas are primarily focused on Latinos in the United States, as well as American popular culture and political organization.