Cristina Garrigós is Professor of American Literature at UNED (National University of Distance Education) in Spain. Her research interests include US contemporary literature, film, music, punk, memory, and gender studies. She is coauthor of the book of interviews God Save the Queens: Pioneras del Punk (66rpm 2019) with Paula Guerra and Nuria Triana. She is the editor of Punk Connections: A Transcultural Perspective, (U. of Barcelona 2017) with Nuria Triana-Toribio. She has published on authors such as Kathy Acker, Gloria Anzaldúa, Giannina Braschi, Helena María Viramontes, Don DeLillo, and Ruth Ozeki, among others. Her latest book is Alzheimer's Disease in Contemporary US Fiction: Memory Lost (Routledge 2021). She is the President of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS, (2023- ). Marika Ahonen is a doctoral candidate in Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation examines the construction of narratives in popular music and the ethical questions raised in this context through the authorship and music of Spanish singer-songwriter Christina Rosenvinge (b. 1964). Overall, her research interests include the connection between popular music and identity, the relation of gender to agency, and the fields of narrative ethics and power mechanisms. She is also drawn to the areas of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In 2022, Ahonen won the ISCH (International Society for Cultural History) essay prize with the article 'Sirens, Narrative Ethics, and Christina Rosenvinge's Mi vida bajo el agua', published in the journal Cultural History, 2023.
