John Stone

is Serra Hunter Fellow in English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona. He has published widely on both Samuel Johnson and Hispano-British cultural transfer (most recently, on the discovery of a Shakespeare quarto in Salamanca) and been awarded fellowships at Yale, the National Library of Scotland, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Durham, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. He works on English as a language of culture in eighteenth-century Spain, with a particular emphasis on libraries, books and networks, and instances of direct English-to-Spanish translation.