Magdalena López (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is a research fellow at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal) and at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame, United States). She specializes on culture and literature in the Hispanic American Caribbean. Her current projects include a study of cultural exchanges between Angola and Cuba, and another about imaginaries on Venezuelan immigrant sexual workers. She is the author of El Otro de Nuestra América: Imaginarios Frente a Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana y Cuba (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2011), and Desde el Fracaso: Narrativas del Caribe Insular Hispano en el Siglo XXI (Verbum, 2015). She has published more than twenty articles on Caribbean literature and cinema in edited volumes and journals such as the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Latin American Research Review, Revista Iberoamericana, Sargasso. A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Languages and Culture, América Latina Hoy, and Iberoamericana América Latina-España-Portugal.