Jesús Ponce Cárdenas holds degrees in Spanish Languages and Literature from the University of Deusto and in Classical Languages and Literature from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, where he is associate professor of Spanish Literature. He has published a series of monographs on learned lyric poetry of the Baroque: Góngora y la poesía culta del siglo XVII (2001), Evaporar contempla un fuego helado. Género, enunciación lírica y erotismo en una canción gongorina (2006), Cinco ensayos polifémicos (2009), and El tapiz narrativo del Polifemo: eros y elipsis (2010).