Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Davidson College, USA. His research interests include literary and cultural representations of love and death in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Pilgrimage Studies, and Linguistics. He has published on the literary reception of Don Quijote, early modern desire, medieval narratives of mourning, and on the connections between early modern models of readership and material culture.

Annie Hesp is an Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech, USA. Her areas of research include literary and visual representations of the Camino de Santiago. She has published on the Camino as a pedagogical tool and on first-person Camino narratives.

Introduction: The Camino de Santiagoin the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Views Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez and Annie Hesp Part 1: Historical and Political Perspectives on the Camino 1. Historical and Modern Signs of "Real" Pilgrims on the Road to Santiago de Compostela Maryjane Dunn 2. Revival of the Medieval Past: Francisco Franco and the Camino de Santiago Lynn Talbot 3. Whose Caminois it? (Re)defining Europe on the Camino de Santiago Steven Gardner, Carl Mentley, and Lisa Signori Part 2: Literary and Visual Representations of the Camino 4. Picturing the Camino de Santiagoin Contemporary Pilgrimage Blogs Cristina Ogden 5. Redefining the Nation through the Camino de Santiagoin the Graphic Novel Genre Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang 6. Two Religions on One Road to Santiago: Polyethnicity and Syncretism on the Camino in Saint-Jacques...La Mecque John K. Moore Jr. Part 3: Transformations and Identity in the Camino 7. Lost and Found: Materiality and Personal Transformation on the Camino de Santiago Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez 8. The Australian Way: Transnational Flows and the Twenty First Century Camino Paul Genoni 9. The Camino de Santiagoas Global Narrative: Literary Representations and Identity Creation Nicole Rasch