Paloma Fresno-Calleja is Professor of English at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Her research focuses on New Zealand and Pacific literatures and women’s popular fiction. She is co-editor (with Janet Wilson) of Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace (Routledge, 2023) and (with Hsu-Ming Teo) of Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (Routledge, 2024) and Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? (Routledge, 2025).