Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego received her PhD in Hispanic Literatures from Penn State University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She is the author of Entre mujeres. Política de la amistad y el deseo en la narrativa española contemporánea (Biblioteca Nueva, 2007) and the editor of the collection of essays, Memoria colonial e inmigración. La negritud en la España posfranquista (Bellaterra, 2007). She has also co-edited a 2010 special issue of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos entitled ＂Queer Space＂ and the collection of essays Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI. Ensayos de crítica cultural (Biblioteca Nueva, 2011).Her research project on women intellectuals in the press during Spain’s Transition to democracy was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Part of this project is her edition of writer Ana María Moix’s journalistic texts, Semblanzas e impertinencias (Laetoli, 2016). She was also editor-in-chief of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2014-2018).