Luis Beltrán Almería (Zaragoza, 1955) is a professor of literary theory and comparative literature at the University of Zaragoza. His work focuses on developing an aesthetic theory compatible with the framework of Grand History, that is, one that explains the great evolution of the imagination. He has published over one hundred academic articles and a dozen books, including, GENVS. Genealogy of the literary imagination (Calambur, 2017). He recently edited Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel: The novel as a literary genre (PUZ-RSMP-EUNA, 2019).