Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Literature (1993) and PhD in English Philology (1998) by the Universidad de Alcalá. He has six six-year teaching terms and four six-year research terms. He has directed or been responsible for fourteen research projects or grants and has participated in an additional nineteen. Until 2026, he served as the institutional lead for the EUGLOH University Alliance project at the Universidad de Alcalá. 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.  From 2019 to 2026, he served as Vice-Rector for International Relations at the Universidad de Alcalá.  His research and teaching areas are primarily focused on Latinos in the United States, as well as American popular culture and political organization.