JOSÉ MONTERO REGUERA is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Vigo. Vice-president (2004) and president (from 2004 to 2012) of the Asociación de Cervantistas. In June 2012 he was elected, by unanimous vote of the members, Honorary President. Full member of the Instituto de Estudios Madrileños (CSIC) since April 2023.
For ten years he was secretary and editor of Edad de Oro (1990 to 2000). In 1997 he founded and was editor (until 2022) of the journal Hesperia. Anuario de Filología Hispánica of the University of Vigo. He currently directs Anales Cervantinos (C.S.I.C.; since 2019; FECYT quality seal). He is also a member of the scientific committee of the journals Lectura y Signo (University of León), Anuario Calderoniano (University of Navarra), Ianus (University of A Coruña) and Cervantes (Cervantes Society of America).
He is the author of two hundred publications on authors and works of Spanish literature, with special attention to those belonging to the 16th and 17th centuries. His career in the field of Cervantine studies dates back to the 1990s, when his monograph El Quijote y la crítica contemporánea won the Fernández Abril Prize of the Real Academia Española (1995). His publications include his editions of Novelas ejemplares (Penguin Clásicos, 2015), Viaje del Parnaso y poesías sueltas (R. A. E., 2016), Don Quijote con faldas, o perjuicios morales de las disparatadas novelas (1808) and his collaboration in the Cervantes Institute’s Quijote, in its three outings (1998, 2004 and 2015). In 2021 he published Miguel de Cervantes. El poeta que fue novelista (2021) and coordinated, with María Zerari, the monographs Cervantes, más allá de la obra maestra (BBMP, 99, 2, 2023,) and ‘Nos, el desengaño. El desengaño en la literatura y el mundo hispánicos, siglos XVI-XVII (e-Spania, 49, 2024).