Juan Sánchez

Juan Luis Sánchez is an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA and former President’s
Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. His research interests include British Romanticism,
Transatlantic Literary Studies, and 19th-Century Anglo-Hispanic literary culture. Focusing on the implications of literary representations of Spain in the development of British political thought, his book project “Spain and the British Romantic Imagination” considers the complex ways in which romantic imaginings of Spain attempted to reconcile the ideological conflicts that tended to polarize British culture and society in the aftermath of the French Revolution. His current research project, “Latin America and the British Romantic Imagination” examines role of Latin America in the development of British romantic period literature, particularly in relation to that literature’s engagement with the political controversies surrounding Britain’s uneven development as both a world empire and a modern liberal state.