Joaquín Martínez Lorente read English at the University of Murcia (1981-86) and joined the English Department in 1986, where he has taught English Poetry and English Narrative (novel and fantasy fiction). His doctoral dissertation on genre theory and utopian writing (1991) oriented most of his research in subsequent years (mainly on narratology). Apart from a coursebook-anthology (English Poetry: Lyric 2001), he has edited and translated into Spanish works of literary theory (Lubomir Dolezel’s Estudios de poética y Teoría de la ficción 2000), fiction (Samuel Butler’s Erewhon 2000), and nonfiction (Samuel Pepys’s Diary 2006).