A Critical Gaze from the Old World Transatlantic Perspectives on American Studies

Isabel Durán is Professor of American Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, and President of SAAS (Spanish Association for American Studies). Her research focuses on US literature and gender studies, lifewriting and ethnicity. She is currently working on ageing studies.
Rebeca Gualberto is an Assistant Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she completed her PhD in Literary Studies with honours in 2015. Her teaching and academic interests focus on the study of myth-criticism, modernism, gender and cultural studies.
Eusebio De Lorenzo is a Lecturer of English at Complutense University, where he has taught Shakespeare, Contemporary American Poetry, and Translation. He was a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship at Stanford. His research interests include: contemporary poetics, ideology and literature, subjectivity and the construction of authorship.
Carmen M. Méndez-García is an Associate Professor at the Complutense Univesity of Madrid. Current research interests include 20th and 21st US literature, the Counterculture, postmodernism and contemporary fiction, spatial studies and gender and minority studies (specially Chicana studies).
Eduardo Valls-Oyarzun is Reader at the Complutense University of Madrid. His research focuses on Nineteenth Century Fiction (Britain and US), contemporary British fiction and film studies.