Anders Cullhed (b. 1951) is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Stockholm. He wrote his thesis Tiden söker sin röst (The age is seeking its voice, 1982) on the Swedish modernist writer Erik Lindegren's wartime book of poetry mannen utan väg (The man without a way), with a particular interest in the poems' relation to French and English modernism, to literary tradition and to the contemporary ideological collapse, provoked by World War II. The essays in his next book, Solens flykt (The flight of the sun, 1993), are dedicated to the problem of time as it is construed in literature, with examples from the Baroque (Torquato Tasso, Luis de Góngora), 19^th century poetry (Charles Baudelaire) and modernism (Fernando Pessoa, Hermann Broch, Luis Cernuda, Octavio Paz). He treats the same subject on a larger scale in his monograph on the Spanish Baroque poet Francisco de Quevedo, Diktens tidrymd (Moments of poetry, 1995), and it appears occasionally in his second book of essays, Minnesord (Commemorative words, 1998). Cullhed has also been active as a literary critic in the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and his efforts as a translator, mainly from the Spanish language, has resulted in Swedish versions of Octavio Paz' The Children of the mire and of the Spanish poets of the "Generation 27", Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas and others.