Emilia Illana Mahiques is Lecturer of Spanish Language in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She completed her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition at The University of Iowa and her M.A. in Foreign Language Literature and Pedagogy at the University of Delaware. Her fields of specialization are second language teaching, curriculum design, second language writing, digital narratives, technology, and assessment. Her main research interests lie in language pedagogy, second language writing development, and technology-enhanced learning. Working at the intersection of these areas, her dissertation explored feedback and peer review in the online context. She has several publications in this field. Her most current work focuses on the foundation of a nation-wide OER coalition named “Higher Education Resources for Open Education – Spanish” [HERO-S], in which she serves as a vice-president and website coordinator.

Anais Holgado Lage is Lecturer of Spanish in Princeton University since Fall 2015. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Salamanca, with a dissertation thesis that focused on Pragmatics and Discourse Markers and how to teach them in a second language setting. In 2018, part of her dissertation work became a dictionary of Discourse Markers for Students of Spanish (Peter Lang, 2018). Other research interests include second language teaching and technology-enhanced learning. At Princeton, she has taught and coordinated a variety of courses and a First Year Seminar. She has also been part of a team that designed and developed an online platform in order to include the materials for the lower division courses in Spanish.

Luis Gonçalves is Lecturer of Portuguese at Princeton University holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages, with a Minor in Communication Studies and a Certification in Cultural Studies, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Princeton University in Fall 2010. Before joining the department, he coordinated the Portuguese Program and taught language and Cultural Studies courses at Columbia University. His research interests include social movements, literature, popular culture and film from the Portuguese-speaking countries, their identity constructs, Diasporas, migrations and lately also the cultural articulations of the Portuguese-American communities. is the President of the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese and the Executive Director of the annual Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Português.

Macarena Tejada López is Lecturer of Spanish Language in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation is titled “Combatientes fascistas de España: La División Azul a través de los Estudios Culturales,” and examines personal narratives, fiction, and film by and about Spain’s Blue Division in the 1940s and 50s through the lenses of masculinity, trauma studies, and the political economy of cinema. She also holds an M.A. in Gender Studies (University of Huelva), and an M.A. in Spanish (University of Oregon). Macarena has conducted research in Holocaust Studies for which she has received fellowships from USHMM, the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University, and the Auschwitz Jewish Fellowship Program. Macarena has contributed a chapter on the Blue Division to the edited volume Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (Eds. Brenneis & Herrmann, University of Toronto Press, 2020).