Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo is a lecturer 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 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), The Neglected West (2012).