Lorraine Kerslake is an Associate Professor and teaches in the English Department at Alicante University, where she 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 a member of the research project RECONFEM: Spaces of Reconciliation: Post-Conflict Interventions in Anglophone Women’s Writing  (PID2022-138786NB-I00) and has been PI of the research projects "Women Who Write Animals: Animal Alterities and their Creators in Anglophone Literature: An Ecofeminist Approach" (GE 2022 CIGE/2021/153) and  “Angels of the ecosystem?” (GV/2020/029).