Eduardo Valls Oyarzun lectures at the Department of English and American Literature, Complutense University, Madrid (Spain). He received his PhD degree at this same institution –where he also took his undergraduate degree– in 2006. He is the first doctor in English Philology that obtained the mention Doctor Europeus. His doctoral dissertation, Formación y Representación de la Ideología Moderna en la Literatura Inglesa del Siglo XIX (dissertation which he conducted under the funding program Formación del Profesorado Universitario –Training for University Teaching Staff–, 2001-2004, awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science) constitutes an extensive and systematic reflection on the role Nietzschean philosophy played in the development of English literature within the 19th-century and the beginning of the 20th. He has been developing his research along these lines for several years and through academic sojourns in various European universities, such as Edinburgh or Leiden (in the latter he obtain the degree in Master of Arts in English Literature in 2003).

His research interests focus on the English 19th-century fiction, the history of ideas (Nietzsche and the fin de siècle), Victorian studies, Modernism, both British (with special attention to Joseph Conrad) and American (with special focus on Francis Scott Fitzgerald) and travel literature. Additionally, he has also researched on Shakespeare and Elisabethan drama, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, or the cultural relationships between music and literature. Currently, he is a member of the research group "Literary Contexts of Modernity”, which deals with the genesis and development of ideology in modernity and postmodernity in the English-speaking world.

He has published a number of articles and chapters of books about the influence of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche on Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde and Francis Scott Fitzgerald or the relationship of Edgar Allan Poe with American Modernism (T. S. Eliot in particular). He has also devoted some time to translation Dylan como Poeta, by Christopher Ricks (Langre, 2007), the translation and edition of the essay El perfecto wagneriano by George Bernard Shaw (Alianza Editorial, 2011), as well as the book Resistencia en teoría (Verbum, 2011), in which a panorama of avant-garde propositions of present literary criticism are traced. Moreover, he has delivered numerous lectures and speech in Universities such as Amsterdam, Leiden, Kent, Bard College (USA), Lublin and Jagiellonska (Poland), Lisboa, Complutense of Madrid or Santiago de Compostela. He is a member of the Joseph Conrad International Society of London and the International Society for Travel Writing (based in Complutense University).