Campus Universitario de Cartuja

C.P. 18071 (Granada)

About: Dr José Ruiz Mas is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Granada (Spain), where he teaches English and American literatures. He specializes in English travel literature in Spain and in the Mediterranean in general, and in Anglo-Spanish, Anglo-Portuguese, Anglo-Cypriot and Hiberno-Spanish literary relations. He is the author of Libros de viajes en lengua inglesa por la España del siglo XX (2003); English Travel Literature on Cyprus (1878-1960) and The Journey to Europe: English Accounts on Cyprus (1960-2004) (2004 and 2018, with Dr. E. Demetriou) and Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, carabineros, contrabandistas y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994) (2011), among others. He has also co-edited Las cosas de Richard Ford (2010) and edited Marianne Baillie’s Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822 and 1823 (1824) (Women’s Travel Writings – Iberia, I & II, 2013).