Marisol Morales-Ladrón is Full Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of Alcalá where she has been teaching since 1994. She holds degrees in English, Spanish and Psychology, and her research focuses on contemporary Irish literature, gender studies and cultural memory. Her publications include the books Breve introducción a la literatura comparada (1999) and Las poéticas de James Joyce y Luis Martín-Santos (2005). She has edited the monographs Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies (2007), Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film (2016) and has co-edited Glocal Ireland: Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Art (2011), as well as two studies on feminist criticism. Her most recent publication is Deirdre Madden: New Critical Perspectives (2022), co-edited with Anne Fogarty. She is currently head of the EFACIS research Centre for Irish Studies “Alka-Éire”, based at the University of Alcalá.