Eva Darias-Beautell is a professor at the University of La Laguna, where she teaches contemporary Canadian literatures and cultures in English. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa, and British Columbia. Her books include Shifting Sands: Literary Theory and Contemporary Canadian Fiction (Mellen, 2000), and Graphies and Grafts: (Con)Texts and (Inter)Texts in the Fictions of Four Canadian Women Writers (Peter Lang, 2001) as well as the edited collections Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada (WLU P, 2012) and The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories Through Canada’s Postmetropolis (Vernon Press, 2018). She has directed seven fully-funded international research projects, the most current grant being The Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives, funded by the Government of Spain (PID2020-113190GB-C21). Dr. Darias-Beautell is currently working on a new book about the notions of happiness and unhappiness in Vancouver literature.