Lorraine Kerslake teaches in the English Department at Alicante University, and was awarded the doctoral prize for her thesis on children’s literature and ecocriticism. She is also a member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies at Alicante University and has worked as a translator of literary criticism, poetry and art and published widely on the representation of animals in literature, ecocriticism, and children’s literature and YA literature. Her current lines of research include zoocriticism, children's literature and YA literature, ecofeminism and ecocriticism. She is currently PI of the research project "Women Who Write Animals” (CIGE/2021/153) and a member of the research project RECONFEM (Spaces of Reconciliation: Post Conflict Interventions in Anglophone Women’s Writing) 2023-2026 (PID2022-138786NB-I00).