Mercedes Maroto Camino is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she specialises in the early modern period. She has published widely in the areas of women's writing, history of cartography, colonialism and the comedia. Her previous book was published by The Edwin Mellen Press and her articles have appeared in journals such as Hispanic Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Cartographica, Parergon, Spenser Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies and Bulletin of the Comediantes.