Nicholas Roberts graduated from King's College, Cambridge, before going on to undertake his doctoral studies at King's College, London. His first academic post was in St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He currently works as an Associate Professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He has published numerous articles and a monograph entitled Poetry and Loss on the work of Eugenio Montejo; he has also studied and published several articles on music in the work of Julio Cortázar, and will publish a monograph on this subject in 2019.