Dr Mark Gant is Head of Modern Languages at the University of Chester, UK, and is currently the Chair of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies. He has published The Spanish Writer and Publisher, Carlos Frontaura: A Study of his Social Influence and Ideology (2012) and was co-editor of Melodies, Rhythms and Cognition in Foreign Language Learning (2016).

Paco Ruzzante is a PhD student at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where he researches transnational influences on the creation of the Mediterranean welfare systems of Italy and Spain. He is the author of The Girl Who Didn’t Want to Be Found [La ragazza che non voleva essere trovata] (2010).

Anneliese Hatton is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham, UK, where she researches representations of Portuguese identity in the novels of Valter Hugo Mãe. She is the author of “Mysterious Forces and Mário de Carvalho” and translator of the short stories “Fixing the World” and “The Devil’s Declarations Three” in Storytelling: Memory, Love and Loss in Portuguese Short Fiction (2016).