Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Studies at Monash University, Australia, and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has written books and articles on cultural identities in contemporary Catalan- and Castilian-language narrative from Catalonia, crime fiction from Spain and world crime fiction. His most recent publications are the monograph Murder in the Multinational State (2019) and the co-edited collections Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020).