Sara J. Brenneis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Spanish at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where she has been a faculty member since 2007. She is the author of Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain (Purdue University Press, 2014), Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015 (University of Toronto Press, 2018), translated as Españoles en Mauthausen. Representaciones de un campo de concentración nazi, 1940-2018 (Marcial Pons Historia, 2024), and Yo he estado en Mauthausen por Carlos Rodríguez del Risco: Edición Crítica (Editorial UCA, 2024). She is also the co-editor of Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (University of Toronto Press, 2020). In 2015, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support her research.
Raised in Wisconsin, Brenneis earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a visiting scholar at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and the Complutense University in Madrid. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.