Jesús Benito Sánchez is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Universidad de Valladolid. His main field of research is multiethnic American literatures. He is General Editor of the Brill series Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature. With Ana María Manzanas, he has coauthored four books: Hospitality in American Literature and Culture (2017), Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture (2014), Cities, Borders, and Spaces (2011), and Intercultural Mediations (2003). He served as President of the Spanish Association for American Studies from 2011 to 2015 and is currently director of the doctoral program at Universidad de Valladolid.