Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech and the author of three monographs: Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series (SUNY P, 2020), New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film (U of Texas P, 2016), and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (U of Arizona P, 2015). He co-edited with María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Horacio Castellanos, Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros, 2016) and Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives after 2008 (SUNY P, 2024). He has authored over forty-five articles and book chapters on contemporary Latin American and Spanish literature, cinema, and television.