José A. Valero is a native of the Basque region in northern Spain, and an adoptive son of Madrid. He earned his licenciatura in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, and in 1986 he crossed el charco (the puddle) to do graduate studies at the University of Minnesota. He earned his Ph.D in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures in 1994, and then taught at the University of Oregon in Eugene and at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1997 he joined the department at U.W.E.C. Here he teaches Spanish language and literature, and his main area of research is the Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism. His work has appeared in Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Ideologies and Literature, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, and Hispanic Issues, among others. In his spare spare time he enjoys playing and traveling about with his wife Valerie and their children Matías and Julia.
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