Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain: Notes on a Shared History

Carlos Menéndez Otero holds PhD degrees in English studies and in communication and journalism, and currently lectures at the Faculties of Humanities and Commerce, Tourism, and Social Sciences at the University of Oviedo, Spain. His main research interests have to do with Irish and Irish-American history and popular culture, on which he has published extensively. He is a member of the research group "Otras Lenguas" (OLE-5) at the University of Oviedo.

Raquel Serrano González is a lecturer in the Department of English, French, and German Philology at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research focuses on Anglo-Spanish literary and cultural relations, particularly the transposition of Don Quixote and other Cervantine texts into seventeenth-century English drama, with special emphasis on the discursive construction of identity, gender, and sexuality. She is a member of the research group "Grupo de Estudios Cervantinos" (GREC) at the University of Oviedo.