Name: Irene Villaescusa Illán

Title: Assistant Professor, Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pronouns: She/Her

Email address: I.villaescusaillan@uva.nl

Languages: English/Spanish

Areas of research: Hispano-Filipino literature, literatures in Spanish, gender studies, ecocriticism, speculative fiction, travel writing, Asian feminisms

Biography: Irene Villaescusa Illán is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her main area of research is Filipino literature in Spanish, on which she has written a book (Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature, Palgrave McMillan, 2020) and several articles. She is interested in women's and travel writing, transnational, Asian and Hispanic feminisms and nationalism. She has currently started a project on speculative fiction and ecocriticism as part of the UvA Starters Grant Program.