Dr. Jose Maria Gutierrez (PhD in English Philology, University of Alcala de Henares; Bachelor of Arts in Classical Philology-Complutense University, Madrid) is assistant teacher in the Department of Languages at San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia. He has published several articles in Selim (journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature) and Estudios Clasicos (journal of the Spanish Society for Classical Studies) and contributed to numerous conferences on the ancient Greek and Latin tradition in medieval English and contemporary British and American literature. He is currently working on the reappraisal of the tradition of the Boethian De Consolatione Philosophiae and its traces in medieval European writers.