Contract Lecturer professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, Dr. Juanjo Bermúdez de Castro is also the founder and director of the UIB Theater Company. He teaches courses on modern and contemporary US literature, cinema and culture in both the BA in English Studies and the MA in Modern Languages and Literatures at the UIB, history of social movements, feminisms, the fight of the LGBTIQA+ community and the civil rights movement in the MA in Psychoeducational Research and Intervention at the UIB, didactics and new methodologies of English learning at the Faculty of Education, and also theatre history, theory and practice in the theater company that he directs. After completing studies in Mathematical Sciences, Dramatic Art, English Philology and Hispanic Philology, he completed an MA in European Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), an MA in English Teaching Training at the Complutense University of Madrid, and the MA in American Studies at the Department of Anthropology and Gender at New York University (NYU), after also completing a research stay on Shakespeare Studies at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). He worked as editor of the literary journal of Princeton University and as director of the theatre company de Cervantes Institute in New York. He has taught classes at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as at the Departments of English at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and of Linguistics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM).

He is the author of several books, among which stand out Rewriting Terror: The 9/11 Terrorists in American Fiction (Univ. of Alcalá, Institut Franklin, 2012), El asesinato de John F. Kennedy: La construcción mediatica y cultural de un mito (2013), co-author and editor of Arte y Terrorismo: De la transgresión y sus mecanesas discursivos (Univ. Complutense, 2014), co-author of The Alphabet Travel Guide (2019), as well as author of the recent study Vides de Barri: New University Documentary Theater (UIB, 2021) His articles have been published in prestigious international journals such as Research in Drama Education, the journal of historical research linked to the École des Hautes Études a Sciences Socials (EHESS) in Paris , or the Journal of Contemporary Literature (JCL) of the Univ. from Allahabad, India. Likewise, he has given lectures at renowned universities such as Columbia, NYU, or the Univ. Aristotle of Thessalonica.

Member of the national research funded projects EDU2017-84750-R "Reinhabiting the Neighborhood: Processes of Transformation and Empowerment between University-School-Society through Artistic Practices", and regional GV/2019/134 "Poetics of Activism: Cultural Intersectionalities and Literary Works in English Language in the Contemporary World", he is currently Co-PI of the nationally funded research project PID2022-137873NA-I00 'Shakespeare, Art and Activism in the 21st century (SHAKE-21!).

His research interests are very diverse: artistic practices for social change and citizen empowerment; didactics of diversity; minority theatre, literature and cinema; LGTBIQ+ cinema and queer theory; the theater of the oppressed; LGTBIQ+ rights, feminisms and the fight for civil rights; current social movements and the role of art in all of them; the representation of political violence in fiction and activism through contemporary art; the 'ideological' re-writing of history through literature, cinema, TV series and comics.

He is also a short story author, playwright, comic book artist, and is about to publish his first novel.