Lorraine Kerslake is Full 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 Angels of the ecosystem? (GV/2020/029) and Women Who Write Animals: Animal Alterities and their Creators in Anglophone Literature: An Ecofeminist Approach (GE 2022 CIGE/2021/153). 

From 2016 to 2020, she was Managing Editor of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. From 2020 to 2024, she served on the Board of EASLCE (The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment), and from 2021 to 2025 she was a member of the Executive Board of IRSCL (The International Research Society for Children’s Literature). From 2024 to 2026, she was Co-Editor of RAEI (Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses). She is currently Literary Editor of Climate Literacy in Education, a journal published by the University of Minnesota.