María Jesús Llarena-Ascanio (Susi) is a lecturer/associate professor at the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands). In 2000 she got her PhD on Canadian literature and the autor Michael Ondaatje. She has taught postgraduate courses on contemporary Canadian literature and South Asian diasporic writers such as M. G. Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, Neil Bissoondath, Rohinton Mistry, and Shyam Selvadurai. Currently she is working on comparative transnational literatures and refugee stories centred on precarity, vulnerability, ecofeminism, biopolitics and sustainable affects in the work of writers Sharon Bala, Madeleine Thien, Kim Thúy, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Y-Dang Troeung.