Jo Labanyi is a Professor of Spanish at NYU. She specializes in Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and film, especially that of the early Franco period and in relation to the Spanish Civil War. She is the founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Among other publications, she has published Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice (2012), and Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (2000), Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010), and has co-edited the volumes A Companion to Spanish Cinema (2012), Europe and Love in Cinema (2012), and Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016). Prof. Labanyi is currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled Reading Films under Dictatorship: Gender and Genre in Spanish Cinema of the 1940s.
Steven Marsh is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working on Hispanic film, cultural theory, urban studies and Spanish politics. He has published Popular Spanish Film Under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State (2006) and Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, and Militancy (forthcoming 2020), and has co-edited the volume Gender and Spanish Cinema (2004).
Duncan Wheeler is a Professor and Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds, and his research interests explore the interrelationship between cultural institutions, art, politics and memory in contemporary and Early-Modern Spain. He is the author of Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain: The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen (2012) and Art, Power and Governance: The Cultural Politics of Spain's Transition to Democracy (2019), as well as several translations and co-edited the volume (Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2014).
