Dr. Cristina Sánchez-Conejero is a Full Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Master’s Degree from Villanova University. Her major fields of research are 20th-21st Century Spanish Literatures, Cinemas and Cultures. She is the author of the books Sex and Ethics in Spanish Cinema (2015), Rain, Bamboo (2012), Lluvia, bambú (2011), Una niña postfranquista (2010), Novela y cine de ciencia ficción española contemporánea (2009), ¿Identidades españolas? Literatura y cine de la globalización (1980-2000) (2006), the editor of Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century (2007), and over twenty articles published in such journals as Romance Quarterly, Hispanic Journal, Cincinnati Romance Review, Hispanófila, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Crítica Hispánica, etc. She directed the award-winning films Hispanosophy and W.H.O.R.E.S (Wanting Humans Onto Reinventing an Educating Society), which she also wrote and executive produced.