Romana Radlwimmer is Professor of Romance Literatures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. Before, She has held teaching and research positions in literary and cultural studies at the Universities of Salamanca, Lisbon, Augsburg, and Tübingen, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri, US Kansas City. She is the author of Wissen in Bewegung: LatinaKulturtheorie / Literaturtheorie / Epistemologie (2015), and the editor of the volume Transborder Matters: Circulaciones literarias y transformaciones culturales chicanas y mexicanas (2020). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in her fields of research.