Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huelva, Spain. She has conducted extensive research on the intersection of gender, nation, family and social history in contemporary Ireland as well as on the representation of single maternity in Irish fiction, cinema and art. Her current research interests focus on the repression of the institutionalised body, the cultural manifestations of Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the social dimension of John Banville’s crime fiction as Benjamin Black. She has recently contributed to the collections The Cultural Politics of In/Difference (Peter Lang, 2022) and Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance (Palgrave, 2022).