Pere Gifra-Adroher teaches courses on American and British literature as well as travel writing on Spain. He holds a PhD. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before his current teaching position at UPF, he taught courses on US literature, the short story, Spanish language and culture, and English composition at the University of Illinois, Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, New Jersey) and the Catalan Open University (UOC). He is author of the monograph Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States (2000) and co-editor, with Montserrat Cots and Glyn Hambrook, of the collection of essays Interrogating Gazes: Comparative Critical Views on the Representation of Foreignness and Otherness (2013). He has also edited a bilingual edition of Bayard Taylor’s account of his visit to Andorra in 1867 titled La república dels Pirineus/The Republic of the Pyrenees (2002). His research chiefly focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, Anglophone travel writing on Spain, and cross-cultural relations between the Iberian Peninsula and the English-speaking world. His work in progress includes an anthology of nineteenth-century American women’s travel texts on Spain, and a study of the reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s works in the Spanish-speaking world.