Juanita Heredia is Professor of Spanish at Northern Arizona University, USA. She is the author of
Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century: The Politics of Gender, Race and Migrations (2009) and co-editor of
Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers (2000). While she was a post-doctoral Fellow at UCLA she advanced work on her critical monograph,
Transnational Latinas/os and the City: Negotiating Urban Experiences in Twenty-first Century Literature and Culture.