Nieves Pascual Soler es catedrática acreditada de Literatura Norteamericana en la Universidad de Jaén. Autora de: A Critical Study of Female Culinary Detective Stories: Murder by Cookbook(2009), Hungering as Symbolic Language (2011) y Food and Masculinity in Contemporary Autobiographies (2018, en prensa).
Co-editora de: Rethinking Chicana/o Literature Through Food: Postnational Appetites (2013), Comidas bastardas. Gastronomía, Tradición e Identidad en América Latina (2013) y Traces of Aging: Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative (2016). Ha publicado en revistas como Journal of Food, Culture and Society, Mosaic, Style, Latin American Research Review y Society & Animals.
