Donald Gilbert-Santamaría completed his degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a dissertation on the poetics of the Spanish picaresque novel. More recently, Gilbert has been revising a manuscript entitled Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain. This book project examines the rise of consumerism and its impact on the poetics of the novel and theater in Early Modern Spain. His publications have appeared in Hispanic Review, MLQ, and The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, among others. He is currenlty finishing a book manuscript on representations of friendship in early modern Spain.