Doctor Gustavo Illades Aguiar is a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. Coordinator of the Academic Line of Medieval, Golden, and Hispano-American Philology from the XVI to the XVIII Century of the Graduate Program in Humanities (2012 - 2016). Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and member of the National System of Researchers (1992 to date). Visiting Scholar at the Department of Romance Studies of Boston University (2007 and 2008).

Lectures given at Harvard University, Boston University, University of Buenos Aires and various institutions of higher education in Mexico. Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Universidad Veracruzana, Universidad de las Américas and Universidad Iberoamericana. Theses supervised: bachelor's degree (10), master's degree (19) and doctorate (10).

Current line of research: "Poetics of the voice in Spanish literature from the XV to XVII centuries". Specialist in two works of Spanish literature, La Celestina and Don Quixote. Memberships in several associations of hispanists and in the International Association of Cervantists.

Publications: dozens of articles and book chapters in journals and books of international circulation. Published books: "El discurso crítico de Cervantes en 'El cautivo'", Diversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1990; "La Celestina" en el taller salmantino, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1999; In co-authorship with Lilián Illades Aguiar, "Ecos del pregonero", Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2010; "La ecuación voz-escritura en las letras hispánicas: From the 'Cantar de Mio Cid' to 'Don Quixote' and 'Persiles'" ( in press).

Co-published books on Cervantism: "El "Quijote" desde América", Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla / El Colegio de México, 2006; and "El "Quijote" de 1615. Dobleces, inversiones, paradojas, desbordamientos e imposibles, eHurnanista, University of California, 2016.

In the field of Cervantism: organization of two international congresses commemorating the four hundred years of both parts of Don Quixote, the first in 2005 (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) and the second in 2015 (Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla).