María Losada Friend is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philology and Translation at the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville). She has published extensively on Irish literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and has actively contributed to projects of the Ministry of Universities and the Andalusian regional government related to instructional, educational and travel narratives by English, Irish, and American women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Her later publications study women travellers in Spain, such as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (2023), Lady Tenison (2020) and Jenny Ballou (2019). She has translated Mitchell’s “Scenes of Spain” (2023) and with Juanjo Gómez Boullosa, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Diary in Spain 1928-1929. She co-edited Dreaming the Future: New Horizons/Old Barriers in 21st-Century Ireland (2011), Words of Crisis/Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times (2016), and 1616-2016: Four Centuries of Spanish-British Cultural Exchanges (2016). A member of AEDEI and the Spanish James Joyce Society, she coordinated the “Irish Studies in Spain” section in the journal Estudios Irlandeses from 2018 to 2020.
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