Pedro A. Aguilera-Mellado is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He has published a number of articles in the intersections of political and continental thought, literature, and the cultural and political history of modern and contemporary Spain, dealing with questions such as: sacrifice, human finitude, capital accumulation, subjectivity, writing and existence, reason and Enlightenment, postfeminist, postmarxism, or visual representation. He is the author of Fines Infrapolíticos: de la razón, la representación y la narrativa española moderna (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2022).