Libe García Zarranz is a Postdoctoral Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and a Scholar in the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. In September 2013, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Queer TransCanadian Women’s Writing in the 21st Century: Mapping a New Cross-Border Ethic” at the University of Alberta (Canada). She has published on the representation of gender, sexuality, and the body in contemporary writing and film, particularly in the work of Emma Donoghue, Dionne Brand, Merlinda Bobis, Raymond Carver, William Trevor, and Walt Disney. In 2009, she co-edited the second issue of The Raymond Carver Review on “Carver and Feminism” (2009), and she is currently co-edititing a volume of critical essays on Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue.