Lourdes López-Ropero holds an MA from the University of Kansas, USA, and a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Currently, she is a Lecturer in the English Department  of the University of Alicante, Spain, where she teaches American and Postcolonial literature. She has published several book chapters and articles on different Caribbean and other Commonwealth writers: Fred D’Aguiar (New York Press, forthcoming), Doris Lessing and Janet Frame (Rodopi, forthcoming), Austin Clarke (World Literature Written in English), Caryl Philips (Atlantis, Universtitätsverlag, Lexington Books), and Paule Marshall (Miscelanea). She has recently published the book The Anglo-Caribbean Migration Novel: Writing from the Diaspora (Alicante 2004).

E-Mail: lourdes.lopez@ua.es