Miquel Berga is Professor of English Literature and has served as Dean in Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University. He has published extensively on English-language writers related to the Spanish Civil War. He is the author of an award-winning biography of John Langdon-Davies and numerous publications on George Orwell. He has served as vice-president of PEN Català and is academic director of the Master in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought at the UPF.