Luis Beltrán Almería is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He has published a dozen books and over one hundred and fifty articles, some of which have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, and Russian. Among his most recent publications are the books Estética de la novela (2021) and Estética de la Modernidad (2025). He is the editor of the theories of the novel by Mikhail Bakhtin (2019) and György Lukács (2020). He leads the GENUS research group funded by the Government of Aragón (Spain).