Elizabeth G. Rivero is a Professor of Spanish at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Her field of expertise is Southern Cone literature and culture, and her main areas of research are post-dictatorial Uruguayan literature and film, memory studies, and ecocriticism. Her book Espacio y nación en la narrativa uruguaya de la posdictadura (1985-2005) was published by Editorial Corregidor (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2011. She is also co-editor of the volume The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017).