Manuel Piqueras Flores is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Jaén. He completed his PhD in Hispanic Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2016). He has previously taught at the University of Granada and the University of Castilla-La Mancha. His main lines of research are the narrative and the theater of the Spanish Golden Age. He has focused mainly to the works of Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, Lope de Vega and Miguel de Cervantes.