Jennifer Abercrombie Foster completed her Ph.D. in Spanish with a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas in 2016. She specializes in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and women’s social movements in Central America and the Caribbean. In her dissertation, "(Un)Natural Pairings: Uncanny, Marvelous, Fantastical, and Cyborgian Encounters in Contemporary Central American and Caribbean Literature,” Foster explores how writers employ fantastic and eerie stories to provide a forum in which artists may generate, imagine, and share creative spaces to rethink traditional gender and sexual ideologies in Central American and Caribbean society.