Roberta Maierhofer is a professor of American Studies, co-director of the Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies, and director of the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria. As a leading expert of aging studies in Europe and North America. She is co-editor of a book series, originally “Aging Studies in Europe” (LIT Verlag), which is now being published as “Aging Studies” at transcript, and served as a member of the editorial board, of the Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, and is a member of the Aging and Ageism Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association and the Modern Language Association (USA). As a founding member of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS), she also supported the establishment of the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS). Her research focuses on (Inter)-American Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Cooperation in Education, Interculturality and Narrative Didactics, as well as Age/Aging Studies. In her publication, Salty Old Women: Gender and Aging in American Culture, she developed a theoretical approach to gender and aging (Anocriticism), which has been taken up in various social science and humanities disciplines.