Maximiliano Fuentes Codera (Buenos Aires, 1976) is Acadèmia d''Excel·lència Professor (former ICREA) and Associate Professor in the Departmento of History and Art History at the University of Girona (Spain). He is also the Director of the Walter Benjamin, Memory and Exile Chair (University of Girona). He has been visiting researcher and Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Freie Universität, Università di Bologna and Universidad de Buenos Aires, among others. He has published several articles on Spanish and European politics and intellectuals during the XXth Century. His latest books are España en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Una Movilización cultural (2014), A Civil War of Words. The cultural impact of the Great War in Catalonia, Spain, Europe and a glance to Latin America (2016), editat amb Xavier Pla i Francesc Montero, Un viaje por los extremos. Eugenio d’Ors en la crisis del liberalismo (2017), Ideas comprometidas. Los intelectuales y la política (2018, edited with Ferran Archilés), LContinental Transfers. Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945 (2022, edited with Patrizia Dogliani), Spain and Argentina in the First World War. Transnational Neutralities (2021), The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919. A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World (2023), Sánchez Mazas. El falangista que nació tres veces (2025) and Fascism and the Global Far Right. A Historical View (2026, with Javier Rodrigo).