María Teresa Vera-Rojas came from Venezuela to the University of Houston to pursue her PhD in Spanish (earned in 2007) aiming at exploring and fulfilling her research interests at the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Project. Her time as a research assistant there defined her research path, and she has since then continued working on early twentieth-century New York City’s Hispanic culture, literature, and feminism, publishing several journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries on these subjects, as well as her awarded book “Se conoce que usted es ‘Moderna’”: Lecturas de la mujer moderna en la colonia hispana de Nueva York (1920–1940) (2018). Her interdisciplinary research and publications also focus on gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, with a particular interest on contemporary Hispanic Caribbean, Venezuelan, and Spanish literature and culture. She currently teaches Latin American Literature at the Universitat de Lleida (Catalunya, Spain) and is a researcher at ADHUC–Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality at the Universitat de Barcelona.