David Jiménez Torres holds a PhD in Spanish Studies from the University of Cambridge He has been lecturer at the University of Manchester and the Universidad Camilo José Cela, and currently holds a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

His research has focused on contemporary Spanish cultural and intellectual history, with a special focus on cultural transfers between Spain and the UK, Spanish reactions to the First World War, the history of the Spanish public sphere, conservative political thought and the figure of the modern intellectual.

He is the author of Nuestro hombre en Londres. Ramiro de Maeztu y las relaciones angloespañolas (Marcial Pons, 2020); a version of this work was also published in English under the Ramiro de Maeztu and England (Boydell & Brewer, 2016). He is coeditor of the edited volume The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere (Berghahn, 2019), and of a Special Issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies entitled “Representing Violence in Twenty-First Century Spain” in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. He has also published several book chapters in edited volumes and articles in scholarly journals such as Historia y Política, Historia contemporánea o Hispanic Research Journal.

He has a research sexennium recognised by the Spanish research agency CNEAI, was a recipient of a Gates Cambridge Scholars scholarship to undertake his PhD, and was one of the organisers of the exhibition “The Tensions of Modernity: Art and Politics in Italy, Spain, Argentina and Brazil”. He is also a writer and columnist.

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