Juan F. Elices is Senior Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Alcalá (Spain). He has conducted extensive research on satire theory, dystopia, uchronian narratives and postcolonial literature. His publications include El realismo mágico en lengua inglesa: tres ensayos (in collaboration with Fernando Galván and José Santiago Fernández. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 2001), Historical and Theoretical Approaches to English Satire (Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2004) and The Satiric Worlds of William Boyd: A Case Study (Bern & New York: Peter Lang, 2006) and a number of wide-ranging scholarly articles on authors such as George Orwell, Robert McLiam Wilson, Julian Barnes, Steven Barnes, Walter Mosley or Ian Fleming, among many others. His current research interests focus on the impact and growth of dystopia in Irish literature and the literary response to Brexit in contemporary British satire.