Diana Villanueva Romero is an associate professor at the English Department of the University of Extremadura, Spain. She is a member of GIECO, Research Group in Ecocriticism of the Franklin Institute, University of Alcalá, Spain. . She is also part of CILEM, Research Group in Languages and Cultures in Modern Europe: Discourse and Identity and of the Institute for Linguistics and Applied Languages (LINGLAP) of the University of Extremadura. She was a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University, USA in 2018 and a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Germany in 2019. Between 2022 and 2023, she was based at the Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC) of the University of Antwerp, Belgium where she explored the intersections between digital humanities and literary criticism with a focus on Filipino literature. Diana received her PhD in American studies from the University of Alcalá, Spain.