Jeremy Robbins es Forbes Professor en el Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Edimburgo. Entre sus obras, destacan: Love Poetry of the Literary Academies in the Reigns of Philip IV and Charles II (1997), Challenges of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature (1998) y Arts of Perception: The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720 (2007).