Elena Igartuburu García is a postdoctoral fellow at Universidad de Oviedo, a member of the research group Intersections, and the research project Solidarities (PID2021-127052OB-I00). She has worked as a teaching associate at UMass Amherst and a visiting scholar at SUNY New Paltz after graduating summa cum laude from the Gender and Diversity PhD program at Universidad de Oviedo in 2015. Her current research focuses on race, gender, movement, and choreography in contemporary U.S. and Caribbean texts from the perspective of Performance Studies and Queer and Gender Studies.