Author: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (MA, University of Southampton; PhD, University of Granada) is a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga, Spain. She specialises in the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, although her research interests have since expanded to contemporary gender and sexual identity issues. She was a Research Visitor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England Library in London in the summer of 2008. Her publications include several chapters of books and articles in journals, and the co-edited volumes Identity, Migration and Women”s Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression (KRK Editions, 2009), and Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She is also the author of an entry for the Encyclopaedia of Global Human Migration entitled “Trafficking, Sex-work and Migration” (Wiley Blackwell, 2012).