Yolanda Hernáiz-Martínez is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza. In 2023 she was granted a four- year competitive research fellowship financed by the Diputación General de Aragón (DGA) to carry out her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dolores Herrero.

Yolanda holds two Bachelor’s Degrees in English Studies and Journalism, both from the University of Zaragoza. In addition, she completed a Master’s Degree in Cultural and Literary English Studies and Its Social Projection from the National Distance Education University (UNED), after defending her MA thesis titled “The Things We Lost to Call America Home: John Okada’s No-No Boy and the Multiple Effects of Racism.” Her doctoral research concentrates on Asian American literature, subject construction, and critical race theory, with a focus on bildungsromans that use the coming-of-age topos to navigate racial formation in the United States. Her research interests include ethnic studies, intersectionality, and the subversion of stereotypes.