Jorge Bastos da Silva teaches in the Department of Anglo-American Studies, University of Porto. His main fields of research are English literature and culture, utopian studies, and intellectual history. He has authored books on utopianism, on the literature of the long eighteenth century and Romanticism in England, and on the reception of Shakespeare in Portuguese Romanticism. He has also edited several collections of essays, mostly on utopias and on the British Augustan Age.