Neil Campbell
is Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Derby, UK. He published an interdisciplinary trilogy of books on the post-war American West: The Cultures of the American New West (2000), The Rhizomatic West (2008) and Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West (2013). He was co-editor of the book series Place, Memory, Affect with Rowman and Littlefield, and has a volume within it, Affective Critical Regionality (2016). He edited Under the Western Sky, a collection of essays on the fiction and music of Willy Vlautin (2018) and published Worlding the West (2022) both with the University of Nevada Press. He is currently working on a new book, Errant Wests.
Ángel Chaparro Sainz
is Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the English Studies department. His book Parting the Mormon Veil: Phyllis Barber’s Writing was published by the Biblioteca Javier Coy in 2013. He also co-edited the book Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders in 2015. He has published in journals such as Miscelánea, Odisea, Lectora, Vasconia, RCEI or Women’s Studies. Being a member of REWEST Research Group, his research deals mostly with Western American Literature and culture, with a focus on ecocriticism, popular music and gender studies. He is also interested in a variety of topics: poetry, life writing, punk studies and minority literatures.
Jesús Ángel González
is Professor of English at the University of Cantabria, Spain, where he teaches English and American literature, film and culture. He has published La narrativa popular de Dashiell Hammett: Pulps, Cine y Cómics (Valencia University Press, 2002), co-edited The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster (Cambridge Scholars, 2011) and written several articles on American Literature and Film, which have been published in international journals. His most recent research deals with the Western film genre and myth, and its effects on American and international culture, literature and film, with a particular focus on post-Western films produced in different parts of the world.
Manuel González de la Aleja Barberán
earned his PhD at the University of Salamanca, where he is currently a Lecturer of American and British Literature and Culture. His research interests include the study of popular genres, not only as literary or cinematographic artifacts but also as significant weapons to create the myths that sustain the
Juan Ignacio Guijarro González
has been teaching US Literature and US Studies at the University of Seville for over thirty years. His research focuses mostly on US literature, history, and culture of the last century, often exploring the interaction between literature and popular discourses like film or jazz. In 2013, he edited the first anthology of Spanish jazz poetry, Fruta extraña. As a longtime member of the REWEST Reseach Group, he has studied, on the one hand, authors such as Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, or Tino Villanueva and, on the other, the (mis)representation of ethnic minorities in Western films.
Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
is Professor of US Literature and Culture at the University of the Basque Country, where she teaches contemporary North American Literature and Culture. Her research has been focused on the study of Chicana Literature and Culture and she has published several articles in international journals. She is a member of the REWEST Research Group (research group in Western American Literature). She is author of Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender: Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas (2019) and editor of The New American West in Literature and the Arts (2020), Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders (2015), and The Neglected West (2012), among others.
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
is Professor of American Studies in the Modern Languages and Basque Studies Department of the University of Deusto, Bilbao. He teaches courses in ethnic relations, diversity management, academic writing and film adaptation. He has published articles—in Atlantis, IJES, Revista Chilena de Literatura, etc.— and edited volumes—Fiction and Ethnicity (1995), Entre dos mundos (2004), Migrations in a Global Context (2007), etc.— on minority and immigrant narratives and processes of cultural hybridisation. Currently, he is preparing a book on trauma and ethnicity, and he is also involved on a project on diasporic identities.
Monika Madinabeitia-Medrano
is Associate Professor since 2005 at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences at Mondragon University. She is currently the Director for the Promotion and Dissemination of the Basque Language at Etxepare Euskal Institutua.
Alfredo Moro Martín
is Lecturer in English at the Department of Philology of the University of Cantabria (Spain). His field of research focuses on the influence of Cervantes in authors such as Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott, C. M. Wieland, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Mary W. Shelley. He is also interested in more general aspects of the literary relationships between Spain, Great Britain and Germany during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 2015, he was awarded the Third Casasayas Award for Cervantean Research for his study Transformaciones del Quijote en la novela inglesa y alemana del siglo XVIII, which was published as a monograph one year later (Editorial Universidad de Alcalá, 2017). Moro has stayed at the universities of Cambridge, Münster and Piemonte Orientale as a visiting scholar.
Marek Paryż
is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, the chief editor of the Polish Journal for American Studies and the senior editor for literature and culture of the European Journal of American Studies. His current research focuses on the Western across narrative arts, and he takes special interest in transnational uses of the genre. His recent publications include a co-edited volume of essays The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (with Christopher Conway and David Río, Brill 2022).
Eva Pelayo Sañudo
is a PhD in Gender and Diversity from the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her fields of research are Italian/American literature, gender, diaspora, urban and postcolonial studies. She has conducted research at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, NY), the University of Calabria (Italy) and Stony Brook University (NY). She has recently published the monography Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets (Routledge; 2021), which has been awarded the Research Prize “Enrique García Díez” in English Literature by the Spanish National Association of North-American Studies (AEDEAN) and the Research prize “Javier Coy, Best Monograph” by the Spanish Association of American Studies (SAAS).
is Professor of American Literature at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of El proceso de la violencia en la narrativa de Robert Penn Warren (1995), Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature (2007) and New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction (2014). He has also co-edited six volumes on the literature of the American West (including The Western in the Global Literary Imagination, Brill, 2022). David Río coordinates an international research group (REWEST) specialized in the literature and culture of the American West.
Amaia Soroa-Bacaicoa
holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of the Basque Country, where she was granted a predoctoral scholarship. Her dissertation examined the representations of migration and mental health in contemporary Latina literature, and her research interests also include Latinx podcasts and multimodal projects. In 2019, she became a member of the REWEST Research Group, and of a research project funded by the Spanish Government. She has been part of the organizing committee of multiple international conferences and, in 2022, she was a visiting scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies in Berlin.