Dr. Andrea Ruthven is Associate Professor in English at the University of the Balearic Islands She holds a BA and an MA in English from the University of Guelph, Canada, and a PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities from the University of Barcelona.

Her research is focused on contemporary women's writing in English, with a special interest in speculative fictions and how these engage with questions of gender, sexuality, representation, and materiality. She has published several book chapters and journal articles in specialized journals and international volumes on The Hunger Games and Ms. Marvel, among others. She has co-edited with Katarzyna Paszkiewicz the volume Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology and More-than-human Kinship (Routledge Advances in Film Studies, 2024).

She has participated in the research projects 'Bodies in Transit: Difference and Indifference' (FFI2017-84555-C2-2-P) and 'Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene' (PID2019-110068GA-I00) and is currently a researcher in the ministy funded project “Cine and Environment 2: Ways of seeing beyond the Anthropocene” (2024-2027), financed by el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.