Lourdes López-Ropero is Professor at the English Department of the University of Alicante, where she teaches Contemporary Literature in English.  Before joining this university to occupy a tenure-track position in 2001, she obtained her Masters Degree in English from the University of Kansas, and the PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela.  At the latter university she was granted a doctoral fellowship which led to the writing of a dissertation on Anglo-Caribbean diasporic writing.  Her doctoral research was partly conducted at the Centre for Caribbean Studies of the University of Warwick (UK). Her primary research focus has been in the fields of Postcolonial Studies and Memory Studies. She is the author of The Anglo-Caribbean Migration Novel: Writing from the Diaspora, and has co-edited the volume Literary and Cultural Responses to Mnemonic Landscapes: Spaces in Transit. Her articles have appeared in Commonwealth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, English Studies, Children’s Literature in Education, or Social Identities, among other journals. She has done research stays at well-known Anglo-American universities such as the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was a Visiting Fellow affiliated with the Women, Peace and Security Centre.  She is currently PI of the funded project RECONFEM, which explores the intersections between women's writing and transitional justice in (post)conflict settings.