Benjamin Fraser is Full Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the College of Humanities, a member of the Disability Studies Initiative dsi.arizona.edu) and a Faculty Affiliate of Public and Applied Humanities. He is the author of twelve single-authored monographs, eight edited volumes, multiple guest-edited journal issues, and ninety articles and book chapters relating to disability studies, the urban humanities/urban cultural studies, and Iberian and Latin American literary and cultural studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of Hispania, the flagshischolarly journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese AATSP) Founding and Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and Founding Co-Editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series. He has served as Professor and Department Head of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Arizona 2018-2019) Professor and Department Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University 2014-2018) and has previously held the rank of Tenured Associate Professor 2013-2014) and Assistant Professor 2010-2013) at the College of Charleston, and Assistant Professor 2006-2010) at Christopher Newport University.