She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005),and she holds a Licenciatura (B.A/M.A.) in Journalism from the University of Seville and a Licenciatura in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada (Spain). She is a Sworn Translator and Interpreter by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Rueda-Acedo has published widely on twentieth-century Transatlantic Literature, on topics such as literary journalism, women authors, and the relationship between history and literature. She is the author of Miradas Transatlánticas: el periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero (Purdue University Press, 2012), and the co-editor of Independencias, Revoluciones y Revelaciones, doscientos años de literatura mexicana (University of Veracruz Press, 2010).