Ricardo Quintana-­Vallejo is an assistant professor at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics (Arizona UP, 2024), Children of Globalization (Routledge, 2021), and the novel I Hunt for Stars Alone (NMP, 2024). He co-edited The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South (Routledge, 2023).       Ricardo studies migration and diasporas in narratives about youth development, in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. His essays have appeared in Chiricú Journal, Literary Geographies, Norteamérica, the North Meridian Review, Chasqui, and several edited volumes, including Memory in German Romanticism, edited by Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, and Christina M. Weiler (Routledge, 2023), and Growing Up in Latin America: Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture, edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and Pilar Osorio Lora (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).       He grew up in Mexico City.