Anthony Stanton (England, 1954) is also Mexican by naturalization.

He studied his bachelor's degree (in Hispanic Literature and Philosophy) and received his doctorate in 1983 at the University of Sheffield, England. He has taught courses in Mexico, Europe, South America, Asia and the United States, being Visiting Professor at the universities of London, Chicago, Toulouse and others. Since 1987 he has been Professor-Researcher at the Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies, at El Colegio de México, specializing in modern Hispanic literature, especially Mexican. Member of the National System of Researchers since 1988, he has been part of the Editorial Commission of Mexican Literature, the Yearbook of the Octavio Paz Foundation, Hostos Review and the New Magazine of Hispanic Philology. He belongs to the Mexican Academy of Sciences and was president of the Consultative Council of the Octavio Paz Foundation from its creation in 1998 until its dissolution in 2003.

He has published many chapters and articles on figures such as Sor Juana, Alarcón, Tablada, Reyes, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, López Velarde, Los Contemporáneos, Neruda, Rulfo, Paz, Zambrano, Cernuda, Cortázar, Pacheco and Piglia. He is the author of the books Inventors of tradition (1998), Alfonso Reyes / Octavio Paz: correspondence (1998), The first voices of the poet Octavio Paz (2001) and the critical edition of The labyrinth of solitude by Octavio Paz (2008). . His is the extensive afterword in the commemorative edition of The Bow and the Lira (2006). He is co-editor of Los Contemporáneos en labyrinth of criticism (1994), co-author of Homenaje a María Zambrano (1998) and editor of Octavio Paz: entre poética y politica (2009). With Rose Corral he published the facsimile edition of the Argentine literary magazine Proa (1924-1926) with study and indexes (National Library of Argentina / Fundación Internacional "Jorge Luis Borges", 2012). He is the co-author (with Renato González Mello) of the curatorial concept and coordination of the catalog for the Vanguardia exhibition in Mexico, 1915-1940 (Museo Nacional de Arte, 2013). He made the facsimile edition, with study, of Nocturna rosa by Xavier Villaurrutia (Conaculta, 2013) and is the editor of the book Modernidad, avant-garde and revolution in Mexican poetry (1919-1930), published jointly by the University of Chicago and El Colegio de México in 2014. His most recent book is the extensive study The Reflective River: Poetry and Essay on Octavio Paz (1931-1958), published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica and El Colegio de México in 2015.