Cristina Sánchez-Conejero is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Texas, USA. She is the author of such books as ¿Identidades españolas? Literatura y cine de la globalización (1980-2000) (2006), and Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century (2007), as well as over twenty articles published in such journals as Bulletin of Spanish Studies and Revista Hispánica Moderna. She directed, wrote, and produced the award-winning film Hispanosophy (2011).