Anna Kathryn Kendrick is a Clinical Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Global Awards at NYU Shanghai.  Her first book, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain (Cambridge 2020) was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for an outstanding work in Spanish and Latin American studies by the Modern Language Association. Her second book project, Rock, Fossil, Bone: Human Time and Deep History in Twentieth-Century Spain, centers on prehistoric and environmental echoes in modern Spanish literature and visual art, most recently supported by a fellowship at Germany's Hanse Institute of Advanced Studies. Her writings, including on the works of poets Federico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Rafael Alberti, Carmen Conde and Clara Janés, have been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Modern Language Review and Global Studies of Childhood. She holds an A.B. in Modern European History and Literature from Harvard University and an MPhil and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Culture from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.