Andrés Pérez-Simón is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Cincinnati. He has published essays on world literature, drama, film and literary theory. He is the author of Drama, literatura, filosofía: itinerarios del realismo y modernismo europeos (Fundamentos, 2015), and editor and translator of the critical anthology ’Despistemes’ la teoría literaria y cultural de Emil Volek (Verbum, 2018).