Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Universidad de Salamanca. Her publications include Hospitality in American Literature and Culture: Spaces, Bodies, Borders (Routledge 2017); Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture: Social Movements, Occupation, and Empowerment (Routledge 2014), Cities, Borders, and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film (Routledge 2011), and Intercultural Mediations: Mimesis and Hybridity in American Literatures (LIT Verlag 2003), all of them coauthored with J. Benito. She has co-edited collections of essays, such as Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands (Rodopi 2002), Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line (Rodopi 2007), and Cine y Hospitalidad: Narrativas visuals del otro (Salamanca 2021). Her publications have appeared in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, Canadian Literature, and publishers such as MLA, Cambridge UP, Brill, Oxford UP and Peter Lang. With J. Benito she is general editor of the Brill Series “Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature.”