Juan Ignacio Oliva is full professor of Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (with an interest in Ecocriticism). He studies humans and their environment in ecopoetry, and the interactive observation of landscape and the relationship of sensitive selves with an agent and eloquent nature. In addition to several co-edited monographs in journals such as ExCentric Narratives (3), or RCEI (64/77/81/82/83), he has edited The Painful Chrysalis. Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity (Peter Lang, 2011), Realidad y simbología de la montaña [Reality and Symbology of the Mountain] (UAH, 2012) and co-edited Revolving Around India(s): Alternative Images, Emerging Perspectives (CSP, 2019). He is editor of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (2014-), and head of the Universidad de La Laguna Centre for Canadian Studies (1997-). Currently, he holds the position of president of the Spanish James Joyce Association (2019-), and vice president of SAAS (Spanish Association for American Studies): He was also president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE, in the period 2014-2016) and of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII, 2014-2019). He is a member of the research groups GIECO-Franklin-UAH (Ecocriticism) and Ratnakara-UAB (Indian Ocean Literatures).