FELIX SCHMELZER is a associate professor of Modern Poetry and Rhetoric at the Universidad de los Andes, Chile. Schmelzer earned his Magister Artium in Romance and English Literature from the Universität Münster (Germany), and a doctorate in Literary Theory from the Universidad de Navarra (Spain). His research is situated within the fields of 19th and 20th Century French Poetry, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age Period, Religion & Literature, and Rhetoric. Felix Schmelzer has been a research fellow at the Sorbonne Univerity (Paris) and the University of Salamanca.