Dr. Alicia Rueda-Acedo is an Associate Professor of Spanish and the Director of the Spanish Translation and Interpreting program. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005), and she holds a Licenciatura (B.A/M.A.) in Journalism from the University of Seville and a Licenciatura in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada (Spain). She is a Sworn Translator and Interpreter by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Rueda-Acedo was the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award (Tenured Faculty) in 2014 and she was inducted to the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2015. She has published widely on twentieth-century Transatlantic Literature, on topics such as literary journalism, women authors, and history. She is the author of Miradas Transatlánticas: el periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero (Purdue University Press, 2012), and the co-editor of Independencias, Revoluciones y Revelaciones, doscientos años de literatura mexicana (University of Veracruz Press, 2010).