Miquel Pomar-Amer is a lecturer in the University of the Balearic Islands since 2015, where he teaches literature and English for Specific Purposes courses.He completed his PhD in the University of Manchester with a dissertation that compares a selection of novels and autobiographical works written by British-Pakistani and Catalan-Moroccan authors.His research interests include the representation of identity in literature, especially in postcolonial contexts of migration and diaspora, and the ethical and political relations between text and context. He has published several articles and book chapters on these topics.He has participated in the research project 'The politics, aesthetics and marketing of literary formulae in popular women's fiction: History, Exoticism and Romance' (2017-2020) analysing contemporary romantic novels set in the Balearic Islands. He is currently working on. acorpus of romantic novels by women writers of Pakistani descent within the research project 'Romance for Change: Diversity, Intersectionality and Affective Reparation in Contemporary Romantic Narratives'.He participates in the research groups Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literatures (UIB), LiCETC (UIB) and MIGRA (University of Santiago de Compostela).