Jorge Pérez is Professor of Iberian Literatures and Cultures. He received his Ph.D. degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road (Bucknell UP, 2011), Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years (U of Toronto Press, 2017), and Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, and Stardom (U of Toronto Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Latin American Road Movie (Palgrave, 2016). He has published articles in ALEC, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, España Contemporánea, Film, Fashion and Consumption, Hispanic Research Journal, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, MLN, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Studies in Hispanic Cinemas. He has also co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (10.2, 2009) on the topic of Spanish popular music. Doctoral students under his supervision are working on race and migration in Spanish media, Spanish queer cinema, and videogames cultures in Spain. Currently, he is working on a book (tentatively titled Celebrity Culture and Media in Spain) that examines the formation of a new paradigm of stardom that is not exclusive of the film industry, and one that is connected to celebrity culture and the fashion industry.