Jonathan P. A. Sell is Full Professor of English at the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain). His main lines of research are Shakespeare, the sublime, rhetoric and contemporary fiction. His publications include the prize-winning Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form and Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language (Routledge, 2022); Allusion, Identity and Community in Recent British Writing (Universidad de Alcalá, 2012); and Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613 (Ashgate, 2006; Routledge, 2019). He also edited Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He is currently researching the religious background to bardolatry and the relations between fictional contexts, history and the sublime.