Daniel Amarelo Editor

Daniel Amarelo is a PhD student in Humanities and Communication (Critical Sociolinguistics) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and a member of the Galician Network of Queer Studies (RGEQ). Their thesis studies Galician and Catalan queer speakers’ linguistic ideologies regarding the intersection of language, nation, and sexuality.

Laura Lesta García is an Assistant Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). Her research addresses the intersection between humor and history and its role in the processes of national and identity formation in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Galicia. Professor Lesta García has published in venues such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Romance Notes. She is working on her first monograph about humor, history, and identity in Galicia.