Dr Núria Triana-Toribio is Senior Lecturer in Modern Spanish at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester (UK).  Her research interests are in Spanish cinema, transnational cinemas within Hispanism, discourses of Spanish nationalism and theories of authorship in contemporary cinema. She is the author of Spanish National Cinema (Routledge, London and New York, 2003) and co-author with (Buse and Willis) of The Cinema of Álex de la Iglesia (MUP, Manchester, 2007). She is working on a project called 'Spanish Cinema in Transnational Contexts: Production and Distribution' which looks at different aspects of transnational filmmaking. A section of this research will be published in the acclaimed British Film Journal, Screen (forthcoming). She is co-editor of Manchester University Press' series 'Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers' and programme advisor for ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival at Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK).