Josep M. Armengol-Carrera obtained his PhD in English from the University of Barcelona, Spain. A renowned masculinity scholar, he has lectured and published extensively in masculinity studies, especially on literary representations of masculinity, in numerous prestigious academic journals. His latest books include Re/Presenting Men: Cultural and Literary Constructions of Masculinity in the U. S. (2008), Debating Masculinity (2009), Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities (2010) – the winner of the 2010 AEDEAN Prize for Literary Scholarship – and Men in Color: Racialized Masculinities in U. S. Literature and Cinema (2011). He is also an international advisory editor for the academic journal Men and Masculinities as well as co-editor of Peter Lang’s Masculinity Studies series. Currently, he is Associate Professor of English at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where he is working on a new book on masculinities in African American fiction.

• Contents: Josep M. Armengol-Carrera: Introduction – José R. Cartagena-Calderón: Saint Sebastian and the Cult of the Flesh: The Making of a Queer Saint in Early Modern Spain – Begoña Regueiro-Salgado: Beyond Don Juan: Different Models of Masculinity in the Peripheral Authors from the Spanish Second Romanticism – Danny M. Barreto: A Galician Werewolf in Spain: Contemporary Representations of Manuel Blanco Romasanta – Jaume Martí-Olivella: Mikel/Ander/Tasio: Narrative Castings and Othering Masculinities in Basque Cinema – Elena Valdez: Masculinities in Crisis: A Tíguere, a Military Figure, and a Sanky-panky as Three Models of Being a Man in the Dominican Republic.

Josep M. Armengol-Carrera obtained his PhD in English from the University of Barcelona, Spain. A renowned masculinity scholar, he has lectured and published extensively in masculinity studies, especially on literary representations of masculinity, in numerous prestigious academic journals. His latest books include Re/Presenting Men: Cultural and Literary Constructions of Masculinity in the U. S. (2008), Debating Masculinity (2009), Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities (2010) – the winner of the 2010 AEDEAN Prize for Literary Scholarship – and Men in Color: Racialized Masculinities in U. S. Literature and Cinema (2011). He is also an international advisory editor for the academic journal Men and Masculinities as well as co-editor of Peter Lang’s Masculinity Studies series. Currently, he is Associate Professor of English at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where he is working on a new book on masculinities in African American fiction.

• Contents: Josep M. Armengol-Carrera: Introduction – José R. Cartagena-Calderón: Saint Sebastian and the Cult of the Flesh: The Making of a Queer Saint in Early Modern Spain – Begoña Regueiro-Salgado: Beyond Don Juan: Different Models of Masculinity in the Peripheral Authors from the Spanish Second Romanticism – Danny M. Barreto: A Galician Werewolf in Spain: Contemporary Representations of Manuel Blanco Romasanta – Jaume Martí-Olivella: Mikel/Ander/Tasio: Narrative Castings and Othering Masculinities in Basque Cinema – Elena Valdez: Masculinities in Crisis: A Tíguere, a Military Figure, and a Sanky-panky as Three Models of Being a Man in the Dominican Republic.

Josep M. Armengol-Carrera obtained his PhD in English from the University of Barcelona, Spain. A renowned masculinity scholar, he has lectured and published extensively in masculinity studies, especially on literary representations of masculinity, in numerous prestigious academic journals. His latest books include Re/Presenting Men: Cultural and Literary Constructions of Masculinity in the U. S. (2008), Debating Masculinity (2009), Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities (2010) – the winner of the 2010 AEDEAN Prize for Literary Scholarship – and Men in Color: Racialized Masculinities in U. S. Literature and Cinema (2011). He is also an international advisory editor for the academic journal Men and Masculinities as well as co-editor of Peter Lang’s Masculinity Studies series. Currently, he is Associate Professor of English at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where he is working on a new book on masculinities in African American fiction.

• Contents: Josep M. Armengol-Carrera: Introduction – José R. Cartagena-Calderón: Saint Sebastian and the Cult of the Flesh: The Making of a Queer Saint in Early Modern Spain – Begoña Regueiro-Salgado: Beyond Don Juan: Different Models of Masculinity in the Peripheral Authors from the Spanish Second Romanticism – Danny M. Barreto: A Galician Werewolf in Spain: Contemporary Representations of Manuel Blanco Romasanta – Jaume Martí-Olivella: Mikel/Ander/Tasio: Narrative Castings and Othering Masculinities in Basque Cinema – Elena Valdez: Masculinities in Crisis: A Tíguere, a Military Figure, and a Sanky-panky as Three Models of Being a Man in the Dominican Republic.