A faculty member in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures since 2011, María del Carmen Caña Jiménez is an associate professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech and author of over two dozen articles.

Caña Jiménez is the editor of Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente (A Contracorriente, 2020) and “Beyond Violence (Criticism) in Contemporary Hispanic Narratives and Cinemas” (Hispanófila 178, 2016). She also co-edited with Vinodh Venkatesh Crisis TV: Hispanic Televisual Narratives After 2008 (SUNY P 2024), Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros 2016) and “Affect, Bodies, and Circulations in Contemporary Latin American Film” (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 20, 2016). Caña Jiménez serves as the editor of Hispanófila. She is the author of a forthcoming monograph on Argentine television fiction.