José Domínguez Búrdalo graduated from the University of Seville (licenciatura en Filología Hispánica). He completed a Ph.D at Johns Hopkins University in 2002 and is now an Assistant Professor of Spanish Peninsular literature and cinema at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He has several publications on the relationship between Cuba and Spain, and GoldenAge drama. He is currently working on Julio Médem's films.