A respected scholar, Charles Padron serves on the editorial board of the Spanish academic journal, Limbo. A lifelong student of philosophy, Charles Padron earned a graduate fellowship from Bucknell University and subsequently completed his M.A. thesis, “Camus and Death: A Delineation of a Metaphysical Theme.” Charles Padron earned both a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The recipient of a Burke Dissertation Grant through Vanderbilt University in 1997, he then completed his Ph.D. dissertation, “Reflections on Santayana and Tragic Value.” Charles Padron also earned a Master’s degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, completing coursework in Interdepartmental Studies/English Literature and Philosophy in 1992. An alumnus of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Charles Padron pursued a major in Soviet studies. As a student in Quito, Ecuador, he completed coursework in Spanish Literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Prior to his studies in Ecuador, Mr. Padron graduated with a B.A. in European Cultural Studies from the American University of Paris in France. Previously, he undertook studies at Richmond, The American International University in London. Over the years, Charles Padron has served the literary and philosophical communities as a respected scholar on the topic of George Santayana, a poet, author, and essayist. He has traveled around the world to present on topics such as “Santayana’s Conscious Animality” at the Second International Conference on George Santayana, in Opole, Poland, and “Margaret Fuller and the Limitations of Punishment: Some Reflections” at the 13th Annual Conference of American Literature in Long Beach, California. When not focusing on Santayana’s many works, Mr. Padron enjoys the writings of David Foster Wallace and essayist Carlos Fuentes.