McEvoy, Gabriela: - Gabriela McEvoy is originally from Lima, Peru, and
lives in Annville, Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD. In Latin American Literature
from the University of California, San Diego (United States). She is a Spanish
professor at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. She is the vice president
of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS). Her specialization is
the study of European immigration to Latin America, especially Irish immigrants
to Peru in the nineteenth century. She is the author of the Spanish version of The
Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru (2018) and Palimpsest: Short
stories of Irish in Peru (2020). She is also the co-author of the three-volume
Spanish textbook Raíces. Una aproximación intercultural a la lengua española. Additionally, she has
contributed a chapter to the book Transnational Migration, Diasporas and
Political Action (2022), edited by María Eugenia Cruset and Latin
America and the Internationalisation of the Irish Revolution (2024) edited
by Laura P. Z. Izarra.